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Assam’s Brahmaputra Community Radio Station: Innovation in health communication

River Brahmaputra which flows across the Northeast Indian state of Assam, carves out a network of nearly 2,300 islands, isolating them from the mainland and excluding their inhabitants from access to basic infrastructure and health facilities. Based on her fieldwork, Anjali Mariam Paul describes the working of an innovative intervention in health communication – a…

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C-NES’ Boat Clinics replicated in Malkangiri

The boat clinic at Malkangiri, Odisha, launched on 2nd May 2017 was inspired by the success of C-NES' Boat Story.  We wish this Boat Clinic all success in its noble mission of providing service to tribal populations in  (Maoist ) disturbed areas.  It may be mentioned that in 2015 the district administration of Malkangiri along with…

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Public Health Care: Too Far, Too Little For Assam’s Riverine Islanders

Who is the public health system actually catering to, if not these vulnerable women and children of the riverine islanders who actually are in dire need of these services? Do they not come under the MDG goal umbrella? Author(s): Anjali Paul | Posted on: Apr 10, 2017 http://www.esocialsciences.org/Articles/show_Article.aspx?qs=+30QEbn3Sin1XnvhkfnzXVMpYu7w83gG7XAQhjbRJx5JvXK7N5iWCi/2rwY2lAl+6oxpsYPCEUch+Ij7qcM7DA==

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Sir Mark Tully on the Boat Clinics on HT

“The governments’ failure to deliver more effectively on human development indicates they need to look for new models and replicate them, taking advantage of NGO initiatives and their ability to provide services as effectively as the Brahmaputra boats do” Sir Mark Tully. Follow the link for more http://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/to-change-india-we-need-a-state-ngo-collaboration/story-7qnMxnsszPVhP5IEnFpsCL.html

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Goa’s Herald on Sanjoy Hazarika

Sujay Gupta, editor of the Heraldo in Goa, wrote this entertaining piece based on a lunch at Gunpowder in Goa: http://www.heraldgoa.in/…/THE-YOUNG-MAN-AND-THE-RIVER-–-HAZ…’S-TALES-TOLD-AT-ASSAGAO/111649.html

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Constitution, Nagaland & Women’s Rights

THE resignation of the Nagaland Chief Minister DR Zeliang is  a fallout of the anti-reservation violence in the state. The government, in the wake of rioting, arson and large-scale intimidation of women candidates by male-dominated "civil society groups" and traditional institutions, had walked away from upholding its position as a government of all the people…

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Follow these young doctors from Barcelona onboard Boat Clinics

Fresh doctors from Barcelona  Clara Gené Skrabec and Mariona Condom have come to volunteer with the Boat Clinics for 2 weeks. They visited the Boat Clinic Units of Kamrup, Morigaon ,Jorhat and Dibrugarh. Follow these Spanish doctors on their amazing journey across Assam from one Boat Clinic to the other https://freshdoctorsinindia.wordpress.com/

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