Health and Hygiene

Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine

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This section features stories of initiatives ensuring healthcare for all. These are based on approaches that help prevent ill-health in the first place, including the provision of nutritional food, enabling an environment that is healthy, and so on. They include ensuring access to curative facilities to those who have conventionally not had such access. And they have stories of synergizing various health systems, traditional and modern, bringing back into popular use the diverse systems from India and outside including indigenous/folk medicine, nature cure, Ayurvedic, Unani and other such systems, and other holistic or integrative approaches. Community-based management and control of healthcare and hygiene, and ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in health, would be part of the stories featured here.

Chennai study validates a long-held concern—trans women are more vulnerable to TB

“Government healthcare workers need to be sensitised on queer issues. In the case of trans women, it should not matter what their attire or surgical status is, they should be classified correctly based on self-identification.."

ആനയുടെയും അന്ധരുടെയും കഥയ്ക്കപ്പുറം: കൂട്ടായ അർത്ഥരൂപീകരണത്തിലേക്ക് (In Malayalam)

ആനയുടെയും അന്ധരുടെയും കഥയുമായി വികൽപ് സംഗം പ്രക്രിയ എങ്ങനെ ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നുവെന്ന് വായിക്കാം.

Legends of Sher Dariya (The Lion River)

The existential challenge for all of us now is: How can we listen to the rivers again? How can we become the voice for Indus and other rivers that are being polluted, dammed, divided and diverted?

पवित्र निर्माल्य : गणेशोत्सवात निर्माण होणाऱ्या घनकचऱ्याचे व्यवस्थापन (In Marathi)

प्रत्येक शहरातील महानगरपालिका ही चक्रीय पुरवठा साखळी त्यांच्या घनकचरा व्यवस्थापन योजनांमध्ये एकत्रित करू शकतात जेणेकरून सामग्रीचे खरे मूल्य ओळखले जाईल.

Beyond the Elephant and the Blind Men: A Story of Collective Sense-Making

Vikalp Sangam answers the parable: we listen to each sector's truth to see the whole elephant of an equitable, just & sustainable future.

 SUPPORT THE OBJECTIVES OF HIMALAYAN INSTITUTE OF ALTERNATIVE LEARNING (HIAL), RATHER THAN HARASS IT!

We are shocked at the Ladakh UT Administration’s move to revoke the land lease of the Himalayan Institute of Alternative Learning (HIAL).

How Arunachal’s Women Healers Are Conserving Rare, Endangered Plants

With climate change driving several medicinal herbs into extinction, women healers in the Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh are making a difference by conserving their traditional knowledge of botanical medicines.

कृत्रिम रंगों के इस्तेमाल से कैसे बच सकते हैं? (In Hindi)

यह ऐसी जीवनशैली है जिसमें कचरा पैदा नहीं होता या कम से कम होता है, जिससे पर्यावरण साफ-सुथरा व सुरक्षित रहता है।यह पूरी पहल सराहनीय होने के साथ अनुकरणीय भी है।

जनसाधारण के उभरते विकल्प और उसका सपना (In Hindi)

विकल्प संगम, एक राष्ट्रीय स्तर का मंच है, जिसमें पर्यावरण, सामाजिक, आर्थिक, सांस्कृतिक और स्वशासन संबंधी मुद्दों पर काम करने वाले स्थानीय समुदायों, सामाजिक आंदोलनों और कई गैर सरकारी संगठन जुड़े हैं।