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Menstrual Hygiene Day: Why dispelling stigma, promoting hygiene practices need govt intervention
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India s resurgence of COVID-19: urgent actions needed
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Poonam Muttreja
Covid-19 is the biggest challenge India has faced in these past two years. From big cities to rural areas, the pandemic has left everyone helpless. Amid these difficult times, organisations like Population Foundation of India have been helping to spread awareness on various key healthcare issues. NewsX recently interacted with PFI’s Executive Director Poonam Muttreja as part of its special series NewsX India A-List, wherein she shared PF I’s efforts towards community building and sensitisation in detail.
Speaking about PFI’s efforts towards spreading awareness on key healthcare issues, especially family planning, in the rural sector amid Covid-19 pandemic, Ms Poonam said, “PFI took the responsibility of doing both- Covid-related information, which was desperately needed and the government asked us to help develop materials from the time India went into lockdown in March. We did simultaneously on family planning and reproductive sexual health issues. So, the
To arrest the surge of Covid-19 in villages, India must involve NGOs and use simple technologies
People’s trust in public systems must be rebuilt and home care encouraged, say experts. Tauseef Mustafa / AFP
The number of Covid-19 cases in India is now slowing down a bit, with around 3,50,000 cases and fewer than 4,200 deaths every day. We know by now that on both numbers, there is considerable under-counting.
The number of cases at a national level does not also represent, or perhaps hides, what is happening in rural India. What we do know now, through anecdotal measurements, either in terms of the number of deaths or the fieldwork of many organisations, is that cases in rural India are now much higher than ever?
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Meet A Young Change Maker From Tonk Who Is Bridging Information And Hygiene Gaps With Her Powerful Voice
17-year old Ravina Bairwa is a grassroots champion who hopes the second wave of COVID-19 will not deny rural girls their health rights
As the second wave of COVID-19 lashes against an already overstretched health-care system and widens preexisting, social and economic gaps between urban and rural India, a young, menstrual-hygiene champion from Tonk, Rajasthan, is trying to make a difference with her well-informed voice.
Ravina Bairwa is just 17 years old but already a change maker who on one hand disseminates information on safe and healthy menstruation on the other draws attention of relevant stakeholders on paucity of hygiene products for young girls. The task of reaching out becomes difficult as the resources at the rural health care centres have been diverted to pande
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