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Quiet Desperation

The Pandemic Has Caused a Postpartum Depression Crisis in India

...value for mental health care services, and expanded the way those services are conveyed. This could herald an invaluable and more sustainable shift in postpartum mental health care not only...

By Liesl Goecker

How Social and Medical Biases Keep Low‑Income Indian Women From Getting Postpartum Mental Health Care

...of mental health across primary, secondary, and tertiary care centers in India. Mental health checks becoming instituted in antenatal care across both rural and urban setups by screening women for...

By Esha Chainani

Politics of Caregiving

Tuberculosis Cases Among Women May Have Increased During Covid19 Lockdown

...access to healthcare is marred by patriarchal obstacles. Research shows women are less likely to seek format treatment due to geographical barriers, an unwillingness to spend money on women’s health,...

By Saumya Kalia

Where Are The Women?

Chinese TV Drama Sparks Debate About the Invisibilization of Women in the Covid19 Fight

...The treatment of women frontline workers “is part of unpaid labour of women and is seen as an extension of the work women do at home,” Ranjana Nirula, convenor of...

The Silver Lining

Surviving the Pandemic Has Made Us Kinder, More Aware of Mental Health. Will It Last?

...accommodate their mental health. In a way, by setting and respecting boundaries, we’ve come closer. “Treating [mental health] at par with physical disorders is a step we are yet to...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Worrying Relapse

For Women, Children With Preexisting Mental Illness, Treatment Is Out of Reach During Covid19

...things, women with mental health issues often experience violence at home. And in 2020, the National Commission for Women (NCW) received the highest number of complaints of crimes committed against...

By Ishita Pasricha

India’s Healthcare System Is Still Failing Queer‑Trans People. A Public Health Movement Can Change That.

...in terms of queer and trans people’s access to public health. The public-health infrastructure in India is crumbling in the current Covid19 pandemic, highlighting the glaring inequalities in who can...

By Sayantan Datta

Pay Cuts, No Plan to Restart Play — Women’s Football Faces Pandemic Setback

...football federations had devised for men’s teams. Earlier this year, Fifpro had warned of an “existential threat” facing women’s football due to the Covid19 pandemic. With women’s football already being...

‘Long Covid’ Patients In India Are Struggling, But Their Plight Remains Unseen

...and mental health — and quality of life. Within the Indian healthcare system and societal discourse, especially, long Covid remains relatively invisible. The national focus is on vaccinations, new waves,...

By Saumya Kalia

A Domestic Abuse Pandemic Is Ensuing Under Covid19 Lockdown

...or mental health of the women. Daruwalla recalls another complaint in which a woman attempted to leave her home because she was being abused and expected to bear the brunt...

Zooming In On Crisis

Why Do Virtual Meetings Leave Women More Exhausted Than Men?

...new research suggests that women bear the extent of exhaustion more acutely than men; this is because the mental strain of constantly looking at one’s reflection is greater for women,...

By Saumya Kalia

Strong And Stupid And Sick

Men Find Wearing Masks ‘Shameful, Not Cool and a Sign of Weakness’: U.S. Survey

...are much more likely than women to engage in behaviors that are bad for their health,” according to Harvard Health. “More men than women smoke and drink excessively. The unbelted...

Domestic Violence Victims Need More Than Hotline Numbers During Lockdown

...says. “In the attempt to flatten the COVID19 curve, women’s equality and physical and mental health seems to have suffered a collateral damage,” state authors of a paper titled Addressing...

By Anubhuti Matta

Circles of Care

For Long Covid Patients, Support Groups Address the Limitations of Medicine

...of Covid19. The biggest study to date notes that vaccines reduce Long Covid19 incidence only by 15%. Another warns of permanent cognitive decline in people who have had the Covid19...

By Saumya Kalia

The Challenges India Faces With Unlock 1.0 and How to Solve Them

...of key learning from all countries, with concentrated efforts on all aspects of health, including the mental health of healthcare providers and recovered patients who would have remained engaged in...

By Ranju Anthony

Validation Finally!

Women, Younger People Are at Greater Risk of Developing Long Covid: Study

...Haroon, both from the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham, wrote in The Conversation. The study chose to focus on Covid19 survivors who weren’t hospitalized due...

By Devrupa Rakshit

The Cost of Caring

Pandemic Isolation Intensified Gender Roles — and Women’s Anxiety, Depression: Study

...to intensified gender roles. A survey of more than 500 people in Canada revealed that while mental health worsened for both men and women during the pandemic’s peak, the effect...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Not-So-Free To Be Online

1 in 3 Women Suffer Mental Stress Due to Harassment on Facebook, Instagram: Global Survey

A global study spanning 22 countries found that more than half of the women surveyed have been harassed and abused on social media — leading to mental stress and even...

By Devrupa Rakshit

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