An increase in HIV infection has contributed to the problem of RTIs/STIs in India. This paper finds a high prevalence of RTI/STI among the rural women in Haryana. Half of the rural women have no knowledge of the mode of transmission of RTIs and their sources. Relatives and friends are the best...

The IIME Core Committee has developed the concept of 'Global Minimum Essential Requirements' (GMER) and defined a set of global minimum learning outcomes, which students of the medical schools must demonstrate at the point of graduation. The 'Essentials' are grouped under seven broad educational...

The political economy of the pharmaceutical industry defines truth significantly, if not substantially and wholly, in medicine as much as does dominant medical practice. This mediated wisdom of medicine is purveyed across populations through public health policies affecting millions as is seen...

Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. The paper describe the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in 14 countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. The focus is on expenditures that...

This Report provides estimates of maternal mortality for the period 1997-2003. The study shows that overall MMR which was in the vicinity of 400 in 1997-98, has come down to about 300 in 2001-03, thus registering a decline of 24 per cent during this period based on SRS data. The decline is...

The double burden carried by women explains their chronic state of malnutrition, overwork and fatigue. Added to these are the stresses and strains of modern life, environmental degradation and increasing insecurity and violence. Here are examined the limitations of the health system and the...

In 2002 the government had formulated a new Drug Policy, but the same could not be implemented due to litigation involving it. As a consequence, the policy of 1994 continues to be in force.The present Policy known as the National Pharmaceuticals Policy, 2005 has been necessitated due to several...

A law to prevent sex determination tests was passed in Maharashtra known as Maharashtra Regulation of Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1988. In 1994 the the Parliament enacted the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act . To take care of certain inadequacies...

India has a booming drug industry and has contributed to making generics at low prices worldwide. But medicines within India are overpriced and unaffordable. Price regulation of medicines is a key public policy measure for health of India’s teeming masses. Only the Government of India can...

The appropriate use of oxytocin, one of the drugs on which is the focus in the ‘Tracing Pharmaceuticals’ project, is directly linked to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 (relating to child mortality and maternal health). Safe Motherhood initiatives have included Active Management...