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Good Health a National Priority and Tobacco Control

Ri ght to life under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution has been liberally interpreted to mean the right to live with dignity and decency. Take your Rights and Do your Duties!  Jyotsna Roy  When I was a child I took two blotters from my Grandfather’s table in the district hospital. Blotters were used for drying ink from fountain pens. These pieces were about 4” by 6” with the rough pink blotting paper on one side and a picture on the other.  Generally these were distributed as IEC material for products being promoted. So, one blotter had the picture of a black pair of lungs and the other had an almost blue heart. I asked my Grandfather questions while trying to understand the pictures.  He told me that the tree kind of picture was a pair of lungs that has numerous small pockets in which old breath is cleaned by oxygen. How did the black tar get into the lungs? I asked. I knew tar because the road inside the hospital was being coated with Coal tar to make access ea...

Nada India Nif

Nada India Nif : Nada advocates for balanced and healthy public policies to prevent, control NCDs and promotes child friendly, gender sensitive and drug free healthy lifestyles.Nada's Young India Network is a youth-driven network involved in advocacy of health agenda in India with a focus on tobacco, alcohol & diet.

TB and Tobacco: Nada India observed World TB Day 2022:

Why are so many young people dying of heart attacks?

Tobacco menace :An avoidable catastrophe

Open Letter: Delhi’s decision to maintain the MLDA at 25 years is critically needed to set an example for other state

  30 March 2021   Sh.Anil Baijal, Lieutenant Governor Delhi, Esteemed Sir,  Greetings from the Healthy India Alliance!   The Healthy India Alliance is a coalition of 13 Indian Multi-disciplinary Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), working collaboratively to strengthen CSO capacity and engagement for Non Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and control in the country.     We are writing to you in reference to the recent amendment made on 22-March-21 regarding the Delhi’s Excise Policy. Through this letter we would like to express our concerns over ensuring lesser availability, affordability and acceptability to alcohol. The new amendment poses a threat to the future of Delhi as it will seriously affect the safety and health standards of youth and young adults. Keeping in mind the best interest of Child Rights conventions and the goals of building a drug free and healthy Delhi, we express our support against the new excise policy amendment using the evi...