Applications are now open for “The Struggle for Health”, an IPHU short course for young health activists from 5 to 13 November 2018 in Savar (just outside Dhaka), Bangladesh. This course is held in the lead up to the 4th People’s Health Assembly,… Continue reading
While infertility and childlessness have emerged as affecting between 8 to 12 percent of reproductive aged couples worldwide and approximately 28 per cent in India and Nepal, there is a severe lack of attention given to these issues in the… Continue reading
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 is listed for the session of Parliament which begins in July 2018. Sama has prepared a Policy Brief addressing the issues and concerns around the bill in its current form. Download PDF Continue reading
This article is part of the edited volume titled Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives From India, Germany and Israel, edited by Sayani Mitra, Silke Schicktanz and Tulsi Patel, and published by Springer Verlag, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham in 2018. This chapter is part of Sama’s attempt to advance more clarity and nuance on the vexed question of commercial surrogacy in India. Continue reading
This article by Sarojini Nadimpally and Vrinda Marwah is part of the edited volume titled Equity and Access: Healthcare Studies in India. The volume is edited by Purendra Prasad, Amar Jesani and Sujata Patel, and published by the Oxford University Press in 2018. Continue reading
An approach paper on healthcare biotechnologies in India 2018 | Sama | Heinrich Böll Foundation The approach paper draws attention to the newer biotechnologies in healthcare, such as regenerative medicine and genomics, that have begun to make inroads into the… Continue reading
