The Bihar Health Department has issued the notification of Bihar Epidemic Diseases Covid-19 Rules 2023 regarding effective control over Bihar Epidemic Covid-19. In the new rules, the responsibility of all the hospitals from the state level to the district level has been fixed for its control. In the manual prepared …
A Liberian woman has died of Ebola in a hospital in Monrovia shortly after being admitted, becoming the sixth confirmed case and second death since the virus resurfaced last month, a senior medical official said on Tuesday The victim, Kebbeh Kollie, lived near the capital, Monrovia. She was the sister …
Africa: Addis - UN Agency Stresses Role of Partnerships to Finance Inclusive, Sustainable Industrial Development The world has exceeded the targets contained in the Millennium Development Goals to halt and reverse the spread of HIV and is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, according to a report …
A Liberian woman has died of Ebola Virus Disease in a hospital in Monrovia shortly after being admitted hospital authorities said on Tuesday. She becomes the sixth confirmed case of the virus since it resurfaced last month almost two months after the World Health Organisation declared Liberia Ebola-free. The victim …
Some 11 Health Districts are affected by the epidemic that has been going on for some months now. In the past few months, there have been reported cases of measles in some 11 Health Districts in the North West Region. There are Ndu, Nkambe and Nwa in Donga-Mantung, Ndop in …
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston have discovered an inhalable vaccine that can protect rhesus macaque monkeys against severe illness and death when they were exposed to the Ebola virus. Rhesus Macaques are among the most widespread primates after humans and are the monkeys most widely …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for a Central National Emergency Operations Centre to be established and to be on stand-by to deal with future disease outbreaks and related emergencies. Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director for Africa, said this when addressing a meeting of about 200 high-level …
A collaborative team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and the National Institutes of Health have developed an inhalable vaccine that protects primates against Ebola. The findings were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Previous studies with primates suggest that aerosols of most biothreat agents, …
The world has exceeded the AIDS targets of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 and is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The AIDS targets of MDG 6—halting and reversing the spread of HIV—have been achieved and exceeded, according to …
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone need a further $696 million (£446.13 million) in donor funding to rebuild their battered health services over the next two years in the wake of the deadly Ebola epidemic, senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Monday. WHO Assistant Director General for Health Systems …
Scientists may have managed to unravel the elusive structure of the HIV protein. This could lead to new findings in terms of threatening this immunodeficiency virus, which could help patients across the world. HIV is a retrovirus that leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Globally, about 35 million people …
Increasing secondary school attendance in Botswana slashed HIV infection rates of adults, with the greatest drop among women, a study finds. Typically, an extra year of schooling beyond primary level reduced the chance of people catching the virus by a third, according to the study in The Lancet last week …
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon is scheduled to host an International Ebola Recovery Conference at in New York on Friday in cooperation with the presidents of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, who are expected to be present, a spokesman announced here Monday. "The conference, which will begin at 10 a.m. …
Too few governments levy appropriate levels of tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products. They therefore miss out on a proven, low-cost measure to curb demand for tobacco, save lives and generate funds for stronger health services, according to the "WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic 2015". The report …
The success of an experimental vaccine trial with rhesus monkeys is motivating a pharmaceutical company to undertake experimental HIV vaccine tests in Thailand, East and South Africa, and the United States of America US, with 400 healthy participants taking part in the first phase of the trials. Scientists say the …
After a teenager reportedly died from Ebola in Liberia on Sunday, a second case has been confirmed, raising the spectre of the lurking virus. The two cases come after the nation was declared Ebola-free on 9 May, following 42 days of no new case being registered. However, a man was …
Cuba has been declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the first country worldwide to successfully stop the transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their babies. WHO has called it one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of public health achievements which followed years of efforts to …
Nigeria began moves to douse panic and raise alert levels on Ebola virus disease, after a 17-year-old Liberian boy died from the virus just seven weeks after the country was declared free of the virus. "The resurgence puts fear in all of us," health permanent secretary Linus Awute told Daily …
Becomes First Country To Eliminate Spread Of Virus From Mom To Child, Says WHO Cuba has become the first country in the world to eliminate HIV and syphilis transmission from mother to baby , the WHO said, hailing the success as “one of the greatest public health achievements possible.“ “This …
MONROVIA, Liberia — Health workers stormed the Ministry of Health on Wednesday, demanding benefits as Liberia confirmed its second case of Ebola, seven weeks after the country was declared free of the virus. More than 100 Ebola center workers besieged the entrances to the building, defying police officers deployed there …
In India as elsewhere, multi-drug resistance (MDR) poses a serious challenge in the control of tuberculosis (TB). The End TB strategy, recently approved by the world health assembly, aims to reduce TB deaths by 95% and new cases by 90% between 2015 and 2035. A key pillar of this approach …
