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Six years on, cancer Screening yet to take off -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph IIPS researchers say their analysis of data from the National Family Health Survey 2019-21 has indicated abysmally low Screening rates New Delhi: Less than 3 per cent of women aged 30 to 49 years and eligible for breast and cervical cancer Screening under updated 2016 guidelines from the Union health ministry have reported being tested for either cancer, health researchers have found. The researchers at the International Institute of Population Sciences...

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Prof. Satyajit Rath, National Institute of Immunology, interviewed by Sandipan Talukdar (Newsclick.in)

-Newsclick.in There is no evidence either of the subvariant being particularly more transmissible than other variants of the Omicron lineage, according to the eminent immunologist. BF.7, the new Omicron subvariant which has triggered a surge in China, has also been detected in India. Till the filing of this article, India hadrecorded only four BF.7 cases. New precautionary measures taken by the government, including advisories on wearing masks in public places and avoiding...

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'Every Woman' releases Zero Draft of global treaty on preventing violence against women & girls

-Press release by Every Woman Treaty dated September 30, 2022 Every Woman, a coalition of more than 1,700 women's rights advocates in 128 countries, including India, has developed the findings-based draft instrument (Zero Draft EWT), informed by extensive consultation with experts from all regions of the world, including survivors, frontline activists, medical specialists, practitioners, scholars, human rights attorneys, and policy-makers. This Draft of global binding norm focuses on violence prevention and...

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Fortified rice is not suitable for everyone's consumption, state activist of ASHA and Right to Food Campaign

-Press release by Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) and the Right to Food Campaign (RTFC) dated 22 August, 2022 New Delhi, August 22, 2022: An RTI response by the Ministry of Women and Child Development reveals knee-jerk and self-protecting measures in the form of a few circulars issued by the Ministry of Food and Public Distribution as well as the Ministry of Women and Child Development with regard to Fortified...

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Fortification of rice is not the correct solution to end malnutrition in Chhattisgarh, say fact-finding team members who visited the state

-Press release by by Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA-Kisan Swaraj) and the Right To Food Campaign (RTFC) dated June 20, 2022 Raipur/ New Delhi: Activists of Right to Food Campaign (RTFC) and Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) urged the Chhattisgarh government to abandon its rice fortification interventions. They appealed to the state government that it should not get coerced into distributing fortified rice in the food schemes...

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