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Vijay

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Dear friends,

A special Lancet series titled " India: Towards Universal Health Coverage " is now

available at

http://www.lancet.com/series/india-towards-universal-health-coverage#

This would be of interest to you and your colleagues in your institutions.

Best,

Anant

Executive summary

This Series of papers on India's path to full health coverage reveals that a

failing health system is perhaps India's greatest predicament. The papers in

this Series reveal the full extent of opportunities and difficulties in Indian

healthcare, by examining infectious and chronic diseases, availability of

treatments and doctors, and the infrastructure to bring about universal health

care by 2020. The Series brings together a rapidly growing body of evidence to

show that Indian health is in crisis. As the country with the largest democracy

in the world, India is well positioned to put health high on the political

agenda.

One notable absentee from the launch of the Series on Jan 11, 2011 is

paediatrician and Comment author Binayak Sen. He remains in prison, an appalling

situation discussed in an Editorial in the Jan 8-14 issue of The Lancet.