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. …
This report provides critical insights on the existing challenges to ensure children across the developing world get timely, affordable and appropriate access to vaccines, while ensuring that the unmet needs of poor children are met by the public and private sector in the coming years. Vaccines have contributed to some …
Polio case in slum had govt in a tizzy Alarmed by the detection of poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio virus, in an infant here last week, the emergency three-day special pulse polio campaign launched in five districts of the Jammu division ended this afternoon. Over four lakh children in the …
New Rotary International president Kalyan Banerjee is the third Indian to occupy the chair A Tie-Up between the government and credible service organisations is the best way to get projects executed. These views were expressed by Kalyan Banerjee, who has been named president of Rotary International for 2011-12. Banerjee would …
Number of anganwaris in Punjab has almost doubled in the last three years. While there were 14,370 of them in 2007, the number is now pegged at 26, 656. But paradoxically the number of children being attended to in these centres has gone down sharply, by as much as half …
The Economic Survey Report 2009-10 of the state in the field of health is replete with discrepancies with different figures regarding the same issue written on separate pages and even on the same page. The survey report, released by Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather along with the Budget a few …
Public health professionals are worried about the increasingly vocal anti-vaccination lobby in the USA and other western countries and their effect on immunisations globally. .
The Union health ministry has kickstarted the process of vaccinating healthcare workers across the country against swine flu. According to officials in the ministry, the vaccines procured from international pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteurs is being distributed to the states from Mumbai and Delhi. The mass immunisation has started for those …
Up to 4.2 million people, mostly young children, will die needlessly over the next 6 years unless donors fill a looming multibillion-dollar shortfall in the budget of the GAVI Alliance.
The State Congress has alleged that the BJP State Government should be held responsible for the deaths of children in the Chhatarpur and Damoh districts after being administered measles vaccine. The party has alleged that these incidents were the outcome of bad practices of corrupt officials as they had purchased …
Bhopal: Four infants aged below two years died and 17 children fell ill after they were administered an anti-measles and tetanus vaccine at Anganwadi centres in Damoh town, in Madhya Pradesh. Around 20 infants were administered the vaccine at two Anganwadi centres in Damoh on Friday afternoon. By Sunday afternoon, …
On February 15, medical journal Lancet issued a historic retraction. It took back a paper that drew a link between vaccines and autism and helped fuel a backlash against immunization of children. In 1998 a Lancet paper reported dozen kids developed various behavioral problems. Eight of them had been vaccinated …
A bill to provide for protection and fulfillment of rights in relation to health and well-being, health equity and justice, including those related to all the underlying departments of health as well as health care and for achieving the goal of health for all and for matters connected therewith or …
The changing landscape of Ghaziabad in the National Capital Region, an apparent testament to the Indian economic boom with its shimmering malls and high-rise apartment blocks, hides another grim reality. With India reporting the highest number of polio cases (672 cases) in 2009 and Uttar Pradesh accounting for 544 of …
LUCKNOW: The bivalent polio drop seems to be working. Not a single case of polio has been reported from Uttar Pradesh till now. However, more than 700 suspected cases (those suffering from acute flaccid paralysis) have been reported from across the state. But detailed examination of their stool samples revealed …
