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The HPV vaccine is being accused of killing five girls in India, according to the website Sify. Government officials deny that there have been any vaccine deaths, and cite other causes in each case.
The HPV vaccinations were carried out by an international NGO programme for Appropriate Technology in Health as part of a study on HPV vaccination. Despite the fact that the national government denies any problems associated with the vaccine, “state governments have been instructed not to carry out any further vaccinations.” Continue reading »
A cultural ritual for an Indian tween girl in Utah turned into an ordeal for her family when her American school suspended her for it.
The AP reports Suzannah Pabla, whose father is a Sikh born in India (and hence wears a turban although he lives and works in the US), pierced her nose to connect with her Indian roots. Her school called it a violation of a body piercing ban and kicked the girl out of school. Continue reading »
Though Rinku Rai knew she was pregnant, the very pregnant 30-year-old didn’t realize that she was in labor.
Traveling by train with her husband and four-year-old daughter to visit relatives, Rai went to use the Tata-Chapra Express bathroom. What you might not know about trains in India is this: The toilets empty directly onto the tracks.
Gamblers often lose their shirts in a card game, but one man in Eastern India lost more than the contents of his wallet. He bet and lost his daughter. Continue reading »
I can’t decide if this a tradition we have to respect for cultural reasons–however much we may be terrified, disturbed, and shocked speechless by it–or whether this is actually child endangerment.
Critics say it is, but participants in the Indian tradition of baby tossing say it has been practiced for 500 years without ever harming a child. Continue reading »
If you find yourself in Kodinji, India you may think you need to make an optometrist appointment, stat. Why? Because you’ll be seeing double. This small village of about 15,000 in India has about 230 sets of twins living there. A high ratio of multiple births no matter where in the world you are, clocking in at about four times the average rate of twin births.
The village has been nicknamed Continue reading »
Worried you don’t have the cash to have another baby? Don’t worry, just turn on the TV!
The Indian government is making a push to bring televisions into more homes in rural parts of the nation in hopes that people will be so busy watching the tube they’ll spend less time having sex . . . and making babies. Continue reading »
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