Posted by Bibhav Acharya
One of Nyaya Health’s board members, Bibhav Acharya, reflects on a patient’s story from the summer of 2008.
She went into cardiac arrest as she was carried into the clinic. The men carrying her said she had been bitten by a snake. We put everything on hold and rushed to assist her. There [...]
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Cause of Death
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health, tagged Achham, Bibhav Acharya, Far West, Gender Equality, healthcare, Human Rights, Nepal, NGO, Nyaya, Nyaya Health, poverty, rural health, rural healthcare, rural life, rural poverty, social justice on September 1, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The dangers of delayed monsoon rains
Posted in Social Justice and Health on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Ranju Sharma
It is said that a spring regenerates itself near the bottom of this hill when there is an elongated period of drought. It sprouted five years ago when the monsoon was late. It has not rained at all since the beginning of the actual “rainy season” in Nepal this year and the [...]
Stillbirths and newborn deaths – a tragic but preventable reality
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Shefali Oza, as told to her by Dr. Jhapat Bahadur Thapa, MBBS
We recently had a 35-year old female come to our clinic for an antenatal clinic visit. She was pregnant with her seventh child. Of the previous six, only the first had survived. Four others were stillborn and one died [...]
The Myth of “Beautiful Poverty”
Posted in Social Justice and Health, tagged Achham, Bayalpata, Bibhav Acharya, Famine, Far West, Government, Landslide, Mangalsen, Maoist war, NGO, Nyaya, Nyaya Health, poverty, Sanfebagar on October 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Posted by Bibhav Acharya
Dr. Jhapat Thapa (Nyaya’s Medical Director) and I were summoned to Mangalsen, the district headquarters of Achham, to attend a district-wide meeting of NGOs and government bodies to tackle HIV. Mangalsen is a 7-hour hike from Sanfebagar and our trip started at the far left of the picture above and we [...]
Rural Education
Posted in Social Justice and Health, tagged Achham, Health, Nepal, poverty, rural health, rural life, rural poverty, south asia, Tenzing Tekan on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Tenzing Tekan
Having lived most of my life in South Asia and seeing desperately poor people all the time, I thought I understood what it meant to be poor. But being from a middle class family in Kathmandu, my understanding of the poor is not fundamentally different from that of the average person living [...]
No Health Without “Nyaya” (Justice)
Posted in Social Justice and Health, tagged Achham, Bibhav Acharya, Community Health Worker, Dalit, Female Community Health Volunteer, Gender Equality, Health, HIV, Human Rights, Nepal, NGO, Nyaya, Nyaya Health, Sanfe Bagar on April 8, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Posted by Bibhav Acharya
Chris, Mahendra, Bikram and I hiked up to Prabha to have conversations with folks who live there about their access to healthcare and about Nyaya’s clinic, which was opening soon. As we watched, listened and spoke, we learned a little more about suffering, health, nyaya (Nepali word for justice), and we reflected [...]
Death by HIV: Stigma and the AIDS Industry
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health, tagged Duncan Maru, HIV on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Duncan Maru
People often ask us, why did we choose to work in Achham? The most proximal answer is the HIV epidemic. Achham has some of Nepal’s worst HIV rates and a health infrastructure woefully inadequate to meet the task. When Jason and Roshani first went out to Achham in February of 2006 to [...]
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