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Promoting mobility by public transport, rather than individual automobiles, is a worldwide accepted and promoted sustainable solution. Traditionally, cycle-rickshaws have been the backbone of localised transportation in cities in India, thus a key component of 'Last Mile Connectivity' (LMC) in the urban transport sector. However, in the last few ye...
Income and its proper financial management is one of the major challenges for the Rickshaw Pullers. This study intends to explore and understand the income and saving habits among the Rickshaw
Pullers in Ranchi city of Jharkhand state in India with special reference to challenges towards accessibility, affordability, and linkages with financial ins...
A significant number of ‘marginalised’ population groups are denied of their health rights, its access, benefits of government health programmes, and other health related social security benefits. These population groups, particularly the Rickshaw Pullers are vulnerable because of their poor social and economic status, migration history, lack of pe...
Implementing the updated global strategy means effective leadership, nationally and sub-nationally—requiring country led health plans, partnerships, accountability, advocacy, and collective action at all levels, say C K Mishra and colleagues
Targets, as one would expect, are easier to set than to achieve. At the end of this year the millennium de...
A Healthy Role for UN
The United Nations (UN) turns 70 on 24 October 2015. This September, the UN is expected to broker a set of seventeen historical, ground-breaking Global Sustainable Development Goals, with health among them. Here, the author argues that the role of the UN does not end with merely gratifying general development goals. Additional...
HIV intervention trials being conducted in developing countries continue to raise questions of ethics in clinical research. Most recently these questions have arisen because of a prospective study reporting the rate of transmission in discordant couples that was conducted in Uganda. The study raises serious questions about the minimum ethical stand...
The National Food Security Bill, 2013 is a bill enacted by the Indian parliament to provide for subsidised food and nutritional security to the people, in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quaintly of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity.
This Bill would provide subsidised food grain, thro...
Population Trends and Policy Options in Selected Developing Countries 2012 edited by Dr. Joe Thomas,
Research on population mobility and HIV/AIDS risk among migrant populations is quite limited, and research on migrant women workers' vulnerability is further limited. Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region of China, has currently about 200,000 women migrant workers working as domestic helps. This paper reports migrant women worker's access to...
Research on population mobility and HIV/AIDS risk among migrant populations is quite limited, and research on migrant women workers' vulnerability is further limited. Hong Kong, the Special Administrative Region of China, has currently about 200, 000 women migrant workers working as domestic helps. This paper reports migrant women worker's access t...
Ethnocide: A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong. An ethnographic inquiry into the socio-cultural dynamics of the Vietnamese asylum seeker detention centres in Hong Kong during the period of 1988-1995. It deals essentially with the British asylum policy towards Vietnamese refugees and its outcome in Hong Kong. Based on the author's...
To successfully stall the spread of HIV/AIDS among the ethnic minorities in India, it is imperative that we not only understand the complexity of issues in India with regard to HIV spread among ethnic groups but also comprehend that straightforward measures that might have worked in the context of other countries may not work in the Indian context....
The present study reports the results of a pre-intervention assessment, to understand the social context, community perception on HIV/AIDS prevention and care among the injecting drug users (IDUs) and their communities, and certain aspects related to the process of developing an intervention programme in a district of Manipur. In this Northeastern...
"March 1995". Thesis (PhD)--University of Poona, 1995. Includes references and selected bibliography (leaves 284-332). Thesis supervisor: K. Sadanandan Nair.
