A crucial subset of priceless treatments, life-saving medications have a special non-market value that makes them more significant than buying and selling. Given that they save lives, drugs cannot be regarded as ordinary goods. Drug manufacturers are frequently under pressure to prudently (i.e., low) price these medications. Drug accessibility, availability, and affordability are all impacted by drug costs. Runaway healthcare expenses are mostly attributed to rising prescription drug prices, which have outpaced the CPI. The price of essential and life-saving drugs and how readily available they are in South and South East Asia are the topics of this paper.

While connecting people and their lives, roads also have a cost on them. It is clear that one of the major causes of death worldwide is traffic-related fatalities. In 2016, 1.35 million persons worldwide lost their lives in traffic accidents, 90% of which occurred in poorer nations (World Health Organization, 2018). One of the top causes of death for children between the ages of 5 and 29 is traffic-related injuries. More people lose their lives as a result of automobile accidents than from diarrheal illnesses or tuberculosis. The government has made a lot of efforts and implemented many mitigation techniques both locally and globally, but infrastructure, enforcement, and behavioural understanding of road safety are still lacking. The 50% reduction in the number of traffic accidents outlined in Sustainable Development Goal 3.6 is far from adequate. So, this study aims to provide an overview of road accidents at the global and national levels as well as behavioural attributions and changes in people's behaviour for road safety. Key words: Road accidents; behavioural intervention; road safety; traffic accidents; SDG2030

Mid-day meal program is one of the largest school feeding meal programs in the world. It provides nutritious food to millions of Indian children. It has also resulted in increasing student’s enrolment and attendance in school. However, due to the pandemic caused by Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, with closures of schools, the program got badly affected. An additional expenditure of Rs. 1600 crores by the Union Government of India, to provide mid-day meal scheme has been announced. As for the poor and for the vulnerable the meal program is only source of having good nutritious food. However, the present time has changed the picture for all. This paper therefore tries to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the Mid-Day meal program in India.

According to the estimates by the World Health Organization, the global burden of mental illness is likely to increase to 15% by 2020. (WHO, a call for action by World Health Ministers, 2001) Further, one in four people is affected by any kind of mental disorder. In India, where 150 million people need mental care, only 30 million are being treated or taken care of. (National Mental Health Survey of India, 2015) There is a pressing need for immediate interventions on the behalf of academicians, researchers, government and policy makers. India, where there is a dearth of medical workers especially in Mental Heathcare, our understanding of it becomes more critical. Our National Mental Health Policy, 2014 and the Mental Health Care Act, 2017 address the current mental health challenges of people.Addressing mental health issues through peer support is one of the best ways to cope several mental health challenges. Services or experiences are there shared by people who had any kind of mental illness in the past. Peer support services can help in breaking down stigmas and social isolation of the patients. The paper will explains both the global and Indian trend of peer support services in mental health. Further, it will also try to speculate different mental disorders and their targeted peer support services. It will also question the viability of having peer support services in India where there are social, economic challenges in accepting and treating mental illness.

Roads are meant to connect people and their lives together, also taking a toll over them. It is apparent that deaths caused by road accidents are one of the leading causes of death globally. 1.35 million have people died of road traffic in 2016 worldwide, 90% of them took place in developing countries (World Health Organization, 2018). Road traffic injuries are one of the leading cause of deaths among children aged 5 to 29 years. People succumbing their life to road traffic injuries are higher than that to diarrheal diseases and Tuberculosis. Lots of efforts and mitigation strategies have been put up by the government at the local and also at the global level, still there lacks infrastructure, enforcement and behavioral understanding about road safety. The sustainable Development Goal target 3.6 of reducing the number of road accidents by 50% is far from sufficient.This paper thus tries to presents the overview of road accidents at Global & National Level and behavioral attributions and modifications of people for road safety.