Nasir Yousufi

Twitter: @HussainYousuffi

How a star’s staged death is shining the spotlight on cervical cancer in India

Was actress Poonam Pandey wrong to fake her own death in order to raise awareness of the vaccine-preventable cancer? India is divided.

28 Mar 2024

6 min read

HPV

Poonam Pandey in 2022. Credit: By Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0

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Bilquis Ara doing a regular health checkup of beneficiaries during an open air health camp in Nariabal village of district Kupwara. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

Meet Bilquis Ara, one of Kashmir’s very best community health workers

7 Mar 2024

8 min read

Health worker heroes International Women's Day

Drones being used to spray anti-mosquito sprays in Kolkata to contain the spread of dengue. Credit: Gurwinder

Dengue spikes: the view from West Bengal

1 Dec 2023

5 min read

Dengue Climate change

Irshad Ahmad gives an oral vaccine to an infant at Health Subcentre in Naga village. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

“My fatigue disappears when I see their smiles”: A Himalayan vaccinator tells his story

31 Oct 2023

5 min read

Health worker heroes

A patient receives free medicines for Hepatitis-C treatment from a health facility in Punjab. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

How India is taking on a family of liver-killing viruses

13 Sep 2023

5 min read

Health workers vaccinating a pregnant woman in the mountains after trekking on foot for more than six hours. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

How Bakarwal nomads get vaccinated on Kashmir’s mountain meadows

11 Aug 2023

6 min read

Routine immunisation Vaccine campaigns

A paramedic administering mandatory polio drops to a Haj pilgrim at Haj House in Jammu & Kashmir’s Srinagar. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

Sacred and safe: How the Hajj gets vaccinated

1 Jun 2023

5 min read

Pandemic preparedness

An order from District Disaster Management Authority in Faridabad district of Haryana has again made the wearing of face-masks mandatory in crowded places. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

Down – not out: COVID-19 cases surge in India

21 Apr 2023

5 min read

Health worker SulemanSuleman, with vaccines and other medical aid, on the path to Itchoo amidst snow and ice. Credit: Block Medical Office, Sankoo.

Himalayan vaccinators brave the elements to ensure every last family in a remote Indian village is reached

4 Apr 2023

5 min read

Routine immunisation

The world’s first intranasal COVID-ovid 19 vaccine being carried to different parts of the country days after its official launch on 26th January. Credit: Bharat Biotech

Can the “world’s first intranasal COVID vaccine” help spur booster uptake in India?

16 Feb 2023

5 min read

COVID-19 Vaccine development

People que up to get medicine from a medical shop outside Chest Disease hospital in Kashmir. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

Flu spikes in Indian Kashmir as COVID-19 measures lift

4 Jan 2023

4 min read

Influenza COVID-19

A group of veterinarians vaccinate a cow against lumpy skin disease. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

Vaccines fight lumpy skin disease in Jammu and Kashmir

24 Oct 2022

3 min read

Outbreaks Vaccine campaigns

Paramedic Amina Bano takes part in the door-to-door vaccination campaign in Batalik, India. Photo credits: Nasir Yousufi

COVID-19 vaccination in India’s remote villages

28 Sep 2022

4 min read

COVID-19 Vaccine campaigns Vaccine safety

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