SHE & Rights: Closing the gap for safe abortion and other sexual and reproductive health and rights

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Special highlight: Sharing of Adding it up 2024 Guttmacher’s Report findings and interactive costing tools

This 50th session marks 2nd anniversary of SHE & Rights!

We welcome you to the 50th SHE & Rights session on Friday, 18th September 2026 – which also marks 2nd anniversary of hosting SHE & Rights regularly to counter anti-rights pushbacks and advance gender equality and human right to health –by engaging media and other stakeholders, especially in the Global South.

From sea barriers to TB elimination: Lakshadweep’s #endTB blueprint for India

In a landmark public health achievement, Lakshadweep became the first among Indian states and union territories to reach TB elimination levels. Lakshadweep is a sterling example that if we prevent-find-treat ALL TB in a person-centred and rights-based manner where "no one is left behind," we can end TB - even in a part of a country like India (which has the highest TB burden globally).

[video] Dr MP Nezeeda, State TB Officer of Lakshadweep shares learnings on journey to #EndTB

Beyond disguise: Defending women's rights against the anti-rights backlash

[हिंदी] With just 52 months left to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals, the world is already falling dramatically short on goals related to gender equality and health rights. Decades of progress secured through legally binding treaties and other international agreements and commitments, are being threatened by a growing anti-rights backlash.

When the last-resort antibiotic fails

A 20-hospital, 3-year ICMR study of over 150,000 patients finds that carbapenem drug-resistant infections are driving up both deaths and treatment costs

A large multi-centre study of over 150,000 patients in India's 20 tertiary-care hospitals has put a stark number on one of the top ten global health threats today: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). AMR happens when infections easier to treat earlier become difficult (or impossible) to treat due to disease-causing microbe (such as bacteria, virus, fungi, parasite) becoming drug resistant.