Transgender health in India and Pakistan

Psychiatry in India and Pakistan

The partition of India has thrown upon the Governments of the two Dominions responsibilities of such urgency that time must elapse before plans for the health of the population can take shape. When these plans come to be formulated the question of priorities is sure to arise. Mental illness did not arouse much medical enthusiasm in India in days gone by; and there (as elsewhere) other forms of ...

Empowering communities and strengthening systems to improve transgender health: outcomes from the Pehchan programme in India

INTRODUCTION Transgender populations face inequalities in access to HIV, health and social services. In addition, there is limited documentation of models for providing appropriately tailored services and social support for transgender populations in low- and middle-income countries. This paper presents outcomes of the Global Fund-supported Pehchan programme, which aimed to strengthen community...

Achieving polio eradication: a review of health communication evidence and lessons learned in India and Pakistan.

Since 1988, the world has come very close to eradicating polio through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, in which communication interventions have played a consistently central role. Mass media and information dissemination approaches used in immunization efforts worldwide have contributed to this success. However, reaching the hardest-to-reach, the poorest, the most marginalized and tho...

Trade Relations between Pakistan and India

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Disparities.