malaria

New malaria vaccine may not help Nepal

The endorsement on Wednesday in Geneva by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the new malaria vaccine Mosquirix has been described as...

5 Myths about the Tharu

The Tharu make up 5% of Nepal’s population. One in every 20 Nepalis is Tharu. They outnumber the Gurung, Limbu, and Newa...

Tom Robertson

The dangers of the dengue virus

Haphazard urbanisation in Nepal has created ideal conditions for the mosquito that carries the disease

Tom Robertson

A COVID-19 third wave in the Third World?

Governments in industrialised countries must not ignore the plight of poorer nations facing the coronavirus pandemic, or the disease will not be...

Atrocities against Tharu expressed in art

As they enter Lavkant Chaudhary’s Masinya Dastoor exhibition at the Siddhartha Art Gallery, the visitors are strongly drawn to one particular work...

POOR HEALTH MAKES NEPALIS POORER

There used to be a time when the main public health threat in Nepal was from infectious diseases like malaria, encephalitis, TB...

African Americans in Cold War Nepal

Race formed a contentious part of the early Cold War in South Asia. During the 1950s, several African American aid workers found themselves in the middle...

Polio hunt

Polio eradication is one of the most ambitious public health initiatives undertaken in human history. Launched in 1988 by the World Health...

Sonia Awale

The insect that changed Nepal’s history

since 1900, who has most significantly changed the flow of events? Many people would point to influential political actors like Chandra Shumshere...