Patents must not impede pandemic response
Patents restrict access to essential technologies and constrict the ability of many countries to provide early and affordable services needed for an effective and equitable response
Covid-19: Fight the war, don’t battle waves
We must not let ourselves get trapped in a see-saw of lockdowns and laxity. Need to ensure testing, tracing and masking/distancing
Vaccine efficacy claims have confidence limits
It is necessary to report the 95% confidence intervals around both the overall vaccine trial result and for the values being reported for any subgroup of interest
Budget 2021: A broader head for healthcare
Union Budget 2021 India: Laboratory capacity will be expanded and One Health surveillance connectivity will be established across wildlife, veterinary and human populations.
Budget 2021 expectations: Budget must provide a booster shot for health
Union Budget 2021 Expectations for health sector: Increased spending on primary care will reflect the twin priorities of an effective pandemic response and building a stronger health system for the long term
Covid-19: Will the promise of vaccines match the promos?
‘Science by press release’ may be good for value of developers’ stocks, but regulatory approvals & public-health use require rigorously gathered, honestly reported data
When must politicians listen to scientists?
The purpose of scientific research in public health is to provide evidence-informed, context-relevant, resource optimising, culturally compatible and equity promoting recommendations
Depending on big hospitals to provide most of Post-Covid care is setting ourselves up for failure
Depending on big hospitals to provide most of Post-COvid care is setting ourselves up for failure. Community-based facilities, in or near PHcs, would be more accessible
Covid-19 outbreak and the RAT rage
The Year of the Rat is now seeing a rise in rapid antigen testing (RAT) for Covid-19.
Covid-19 bowls a re-infection googly
We have to maintain vigilance against the first bout of Covid-19 infection and draw assurance from the fact that our immune system cAn deal with reinfections
Covid vaccine race: Unfazed claims on ‘un-phased’ trials?
Commercial interests too play a very strong role since there is much money to be made for the industry, though the foundational science is public-funded.
Covid-19: Making sense of the sero-survey
The true prevalence rates are most likely to be lower than the rates reported, because of the inflation of false positives on mass screening.
Why using Covid-19 antigen test sensibly is important
With a multiplicity of tests, a problem will arise with the reporting and interpretation of total testing numbers.
Comparing countries on Covid-19 deaths
We need a slew of public health measures to contain Covid-19 and keep the total deaths in our population low even as the count of cases rises
Coronavirus pandemic: Covid, critics and contradictions
India should move ahead with the undeterred resolve of adopting context-defined and regionally-differentiated strategies, undistracted by critics
Clues to crack the COVID-19 puzzle
However, these measures tell us how well a test behaves in a group of persons, not particularly about the individual being tested.
Reading the Covid-19 numbers right
Talking about doubling-time between given periods without taking into account whether the underlying testing/case identification factors are comparable or not, or comparing case fatality ratios of countries without age-standa
Budget 2020: Health moves to private fast track
Budget 2020-21: Just as Anganwadi workers will be equipped with smartphones, frontline health workers too must be technology enabled to make primary healthcare more accessible, efficient and less doctor dependant
Guiding nutrition through thick and thin
Those who studied ‘undernutrition’ saw underweight, wasted or stunted children, or thin and anaemic adults as deficient in calories and essential nutrients.
Sound law: Defining a right to health
Madhya Pradesh will focus on access to clean water, nutrition, & other factors impacting health, apart from access to healthcare. Other states should emulate it
Ailing healthcare system needs more healing hands
The fault lines of the Indian healthcare system, especially those of our understaffed and under-skilled health workforce, are in urgent need of repair
Falling maternal mortality: Mothered by primary care & public financing
Two messages come through from the Indian experience: First, strong primary health care is essential to achieve the maximum impact. Second, public financing is vital for infrastructure development, health workforce skilling,
India needs to have multi-level response
Effective risk communication to the public is vital, to enable it to adopt preventive personal protection measures, seek timely medical care, and avoid mass panic
National Health Protection Scheme: Why insurance can’t replace primary healthcare
What’s in a name?”, asked a plaintive Romeo Montague, as he sought to woo Juliet of the Capulets. That question could be repeated as the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) changed name to the National Health Protection
Budget 2018: National Health Policy provides necessary cues
Budget 2018: The action plan is aimed at reducing the out-of-pocket spending on health to 50% by 2020 from 63.4% at present. For both of these targets to be reached, the Budget had to signal the beginning of a steady annual r
National medical commission bill: Bridge courses undermine alternative medicine, says K Srinath Reddy
The National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 29, 2017, proposes sweeping changes for medical education and regulation in the country.
Cut-off values for blood sugar, blood pressure: Why do they keep changing? Here is truth
Lowering of cut-offs represents a recognition of the progressive up-slope of the risk association.
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