The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
With no polio case reported in the last one year, India has reasons to rejoice. But health officials have cautioned that the quest to wipe out the crippling disease faces serious threat from the unchecked “possible polio-carrier” arriving through international airports across the country. And what’s worrisome is that it …
India is inching closer to the goal of polio eradication and hopes to be free of the deadly viral infection by 2014. In fact, transmission is at an all-time low, making a strong case for WHO to consider taking India off the list of polio-endemic countries, which also include Pakistan, …
Three men who spearheaded the movement to start mass vaccinationof children At the Polio Summit in New Delhi this weekend, Rotarians would be celebrating the country's first polio-free year. They form the backbone of a movement that has resulted in polio immunisation programme becoming a routine in every State. Though …
Before the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, polio crippled an estimated 200,000 children in India each year. As recently as 2009, India reported almost half the world’s cases – 741 out of a total 1604 cases worldwide. Many health experts predicted India would be the last country to …
The polio eradication programme in Andhra Pradesh will focus on the vulnerable sections of the society this year. This was disclosed at the formal launch of first round of pulse polio programme by the Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, here on Sunday. The second round, scheduled to commence …
As many as 73,839 children below the age of five years have been administered with polio vaccine as part of the Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme in Pathanamthitta district on Sunday, according to official sources. Of the 73,839 children who have been administered with the polio vaccine, 191 belonged to parents …
KOLKATA, 16 FEB: Around 48 per cent of children under five years of age in India are underweight, ranging from 20 per cent of the child population (under-five years) in Sikkim to a whopping 60 per cent in Madhya Pradesh, according to an NGO, Child Rights and You (CRY). Quoting …
While the country celebrated a year free of polio, health officials are now racing against time to ensure that several distribution centres across states receive their stock of the vaccine before the first national immunisation round is held on February 19. With 17.5 crore children set to receive the dose …
To be organised in the district on February 19 and April 1 More than 2.14 lakh children aged below five years in Erode district will be administered polio drops during the Pulse Polio immunisation campaign scheduled to be held in two phases on February 19 and April 1. The administration …
Pakistan may be interested in importing the cholera vaccine which was tested and introduced in India in 2009 with the help of Seoul’s International Vaccine Institute. In the capital to attend the fourth meeting of the South Asian Forum for Health Research, a group of eight nations with common health …
Days after a report in the British Medical journal the Lancet indicated malaria mortality almost double than previously estimated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the international health organisation bounced back claiming that some key findings of the new study do not seem to be based on “strong evidence”. The …
A two-phase pulse polio immunisation programme is scheduled to be carried out in the district in February and April. A consultative meeting on mass pulse polio immunisation was conducted at the Collectorate on Monday. The proposed immunisation is slated to cover 1,37,925 children under five years at all government primary …
New Delhi: It’s official — India is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl. Newly released data shows that an Indian girl child aged 1-5 years is 75% more likely to die than an Indian boy, making this the worst gender differential in child mortality …
The challenge is to build on India’s recent successes in vaccine research to reach the global cutting edge in producing vaccines for killer diseases such as HIV and TB. Vaccines are a true gift of science to humanity. In developing countries, prevention is better than cure. Vaccines have a great …
The First National Immunisation Days (NIDs) of the year are scheduled on January 30, 31 and February 01’2012. Pakistan has reported a total of 192 cases so far, but several pending cases from last year are still under examination at the Polio Virology Lab at the NIH, and the final …
Dibrugarh: District Media expert Rituraj Borthakur said that a measles catch-up programme will soon be started in Dibrugarh district by March. Children from 9 months to 10 years of age will be administrated the doses of measles vaccine as a special drive. While addressing at the campaign on Health and …
The RTS,S malaria vaccine may soon be licensed. Models of impact of such vaccines have mainly considered deployment via the World Health Organization's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in areas of stable endemic transmission of Plasmodium falciparum, and have been calibrated for such settings. Their applicability to low transmission settings …
Could India be free of the highly infectious wild poliovirus? The signs are it may well be so, with the last case of poliomyelitis having been reported in West Bengal exactly a year ago. It is a rare, inspiring triumph for India in healthcare, with amped-up, extensive awareness and implementation …
Many experts feel that injectable vaccine should be introduced during the transition phase With oral vaccines, India appears to have achieved what was once thought a Herculean task — decisively breaking the circulation of wild polio viruses that paralysed countless children. But the use of oral vaccines, which contain live …
The United Nations and leading world organizations celebrated India’s first polio free year and termed it as a major milestone in their fight against this dreaded disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan, termed it as the “greatest public health achievement” of India, the Bill Gates, of Bill …
