Dakshata and Born Healthy, two Jhpiego programs find place among select programs across India for their innovative approaches and effective strategies in NITI Aayog’s, Health & Nutrition Practice Insight Vol. II. The National Institution for Transforming India, also called NITI Aayog, was formed in 2015 and since then, has been serving as the premier policy
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Born Healthy
Nahar Magra, Block Mavli, District Udaipur Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) Pushpa Chanwal remembers those early days when COVID-19 was spreading across the globe and had just reached India. Part of a small team providing health care to 5,100 community members at sub-center Nahar Magra in Udaipur district, she worried that the vulnerable residents of this
Nepal Tackles Gender-Based Violence Amplified by Pandemic
Having just completed an autopsy on a 12-year-old who died by suicide—his team’s third case in the past two weeks of girls and young women who took their own lives—physician Sandeep Okheda is upset. It’s abundantly clear to the medical superintendent at Bajhang District Hospital that there is a serious problem in rural Sudurpashchim Pradesh