Turn The Tide

River pollution has high public health costs

Turn The Tide

In spite of the vast amounts of funds allocated towards the clean-up of rivers, the gross pollution of Indian rivers has been far from corrected. The most prominent example of it in the recent times has been a study investigating the health of children living by Delhi's Yamuna river.

-The Times of India, February 17, 2012

'This is a profound moment in the history of immunisation'

Q&A


Seth Berkley is CEO of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), a public-private partnership dedicated to spreading immunisation across the world. Bring together developing nations with donors, vaccine industries with international organisations like the WHO and Unicef and philanthropists like the Gates Foundation with civil society, Berkley spoke with Kounteya Sinha about the exciting moment we are witnessing in global health today, growing equity between rich and poor nations in health - and how a shot in the arm could save a child's life:

Interview - Q&A

-The Times of India, February 8, 2012

'It's one full year since the last polio case in India was recorded'

Q&A


with Karin Hulshof, Unicef representative, about the tragedy of children paralysed by the disease, the triumph of how India tackled it - and what we need to do now to protect future generations for polio

Q&A

-The Times of India, January 13, 2012