The success of various programmes initiated under a pilot project in Orangi, a Karachi slum, has inspired its leader to predict the squatter colony would become a thriving section of the city in a few years.

As scientists debate which of two new pesticides should be used in the fight against malaria, the toll in the disease slowly rises.

In earlier times, a mixture of salt, herbs and spices or a simple dose of salt by itself was considered a prime cure for a range of illnesses.

Instead of treating AIDS patients in hospitals, an organisation in Uganda is effectively extending health care to them in their own homes

Saheli, a Delhi based women's organisation, has, for some time, been fighting against long acting female contraceptives like Net oen and Norplant 6, believed to have dangerous side effects. It took its case to the Supreme Court and got the government to

Third World countries warned at Amsterdam recently that even if more effective vaccines and drugs become available, they may not be afford them.

Destroying mosquito larvae with the help of fish is not only environment frinedly, but a profitable venture too

With the discovery that not all four anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria, programmes to control the disease need fresh appraisal

The government is on the wrong track and it's infected blood, not sexual intercourse, which transmits AIDS in the country

The air in Delhi is now at dangerous levels almost at the same levels as we saw in the aftermath of Diwali and yet. Is it genuinely hopeless now at a time when there are statistics emerging that one in eight deaths in India can be linked directly to pollution. These numbers are staggering but why is air pollution not the top priority in the country right now? We talk about demonitisation and corruption as election themes, what about something like air pollution which is killing all of us? Tonight, we ask what explains this air apolcalpse in Delhi now.

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