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Regular collection of health data helps in designing health and nutrition interventions. (Photo by Gouri Agtey Athale)

Vadu women emerge as agents of change as health recorders

A patriarchal society in India ensures that married women are responsible for contraceptive use. (Photo by Pippa Ranger/Department for International Development)

Women continue to bear the burden of contraception

Women need secluded bathing spaces in villages. (Photo by Prem Kumar Marni)

Women forced to bathe in the open in Odisha villages

A women’s workshop on cleanliness in progress in Majra village. (Photo by Tarun Kanti Bose)

Majra in the Aravallis sets cleanliness standards in Rajasthan

In many villages, an informally decided upon time is kept aside for women taking a bath in a group. (Photo by Adam Cohn)

Rural men must realize women need secluded bathing spaces

Most rural women still bathe in the open but fetch water to their homes so that their daughters can bathe comfortably. (Photo by Daniel Bachhuber)

Opportunity cost of personal hygiene too high for rural women

The paths of Shikdamakha village are dotted with bamboo baskets to collect waste. (Photo by Abdul Gani)

Remote village in Karbi Anglong sets cleanliness benchmark

Arsenic contamination in groundwater killing villagers in Ballia

Apiarist Vivek Khalokar inspecting a hive in Amravati, Maharashtra. (Photo by Hiren Kumar Bose)

Impure honey eats into small producers’ margins

Chumudi Madkami of Palkonda village in Malkangiri with her malnourished son Aditya. (Photo by Basudev Mahapatra)

Malkangiri child deaths: disease or malnourishment?

Locally bred goats fetch a regular income. (Photo by Sharada Balasubramanian)

Integrated organic farming revives Nemmeli’s fields

A newly constructed toilet in Rohtas district of Bihar.

Women are leading the sanitation campaign in Bihar villages

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