Paula Hanasz goes with the flow of Himalayan rivers as they pass through Nepal, India and on to Bangladesh before releasing into the Bay of Bengal. She illustrates how water affects the lives of ordinary people in South Asia through linkages and trade-offs with food, energy and the environment. This post can also be viewed as a gallery here.

Is the proposed co-payment the first step towards dismantling Medicare, asks Laurann Yen.

The 'triple burden' of hunger, obesity and under-nourishment.

Health inequities aren’t just seeing specific social groups die younger, they are also costing the country dearly, writes Sharon Friel.

Alcohol abuse undermines children’s sense of safety in their communities, writes Sharon Bessell.

Larger businesses need to enter the on-site sanitation sector in order to offer improved sanitation to the poor, writes Bob Warner.