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 …
Robert Garry, professor of microbiology and immunology at the Tulane University School of Medicine, says a study proves the new rapid Ebola test is as accurate in diagnosing the disease as the traditional test. Credit: Paula Burch-Celentano A new finger prick rapid Ebola test co-developed by Tulane University researchers is …
Abuja — Unless countries worst affected by Humman Immuno Virus (HIV) demonstrate determination and focus on stopping new HIV infection and increasing access to anti-retroviral drugs, the epidemic would definitely rebound. This is contained in a new report released by United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Lancet Commission, a …
Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma said Friday he was imposing a three-week daytime curfew in the last Ebola-hit areas in a bid to curb a resurgence of the deadly virus. Koroma announced on state television he was imposing "with immediate effect a 6:00 am to 6:00 pm chiefdom-level curfew" …
Of all the ills that kill the poor, none is as lethal as the bad govt: Experts Life came to a standstill when Marzia Dalal, a city-based corporate legal consultant and mother of two children, was diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) in her late 30s. She needed a stronger regimen to …
After more than a decade of major achievements, the AIDS response is at a crucial juncture, both in terms of its immediate trajectory and its sustainability, as well as its place in the new global health and development agendas. In May, 2013, the UNAIDS–Lancet Commission—a diverse group of experts in …
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is still not over amid reports that the disease could still longer in Guinea and Sierra Leone than expected. Health officials continue to report cases in the two countries, raising fear in the subregion. Dr. Margaret Harris of the World Health Organization said, "It's …
Zimbabweans may soon be immunised against HIV transmission if trials for a vaccine to prevent the spread of the deadly virus expected to start in the near future are successful. The trial will also be carried out in Zambia and Malawi, as Southern Africa steps up efforts to fight HIV. …
The ongoing west Africa Ebola-virus-disease epidemic has disrupted the entire health-care system in affected countries. Because of the overlap of symptoms of Ebola virus disease and malaria, the care delivery of malaria is particularly sensitive to the indirect effects of the current Ebola-virus-disease epidemic. We therefore characterise malaria case management …
On Aug 31, 1665, Samuel Pepys noted dolefully in his diary: “Thus this month ends, with great sadness upon the public through the greatness of the plague, everywhere through the Kingdom almost. Every day sadder news of its increase. In the City died this week 7496; and of them 6102 …
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state on Tuesday said the state has the second highest HIV prevalence in the country, and only 36 per cent of mothers have the benefit of being attended by skilled birth attendants. In his speech at the Kaduna State Healthcare Summit in Kaduna, Mr. El-Rufai …
Johannesburg — Malawian President Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika and his government has been hailed for demonstrating high level commitment in the national and global fight against HIV and AIDS. Speaking when he called on President Mutharika in Johannesburg South Africa where the President is there for African Union summit, United …
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone is introducing new curfews for two northern districts after a spike in new Ebola cases to the highest level in months, President Ernest Bai Koroma said on Friday. The 18-month-long Ebola epidemic has killed more than 11,100 people in West Africa, although weekly numbers of new …
Accra — Despite protests from civil society, the Ghanaian Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) have given the nod for the commencement of Ebola vaccine trial in the country. The regulatory body in an official release signed by its chief executive, Hudu Mogtari communicated its decision to approve the trial of …
Ghana has suspended a trial for an Ebola vaccine after complaints that locals were being needlessly used as "guinea pigs" in a country currently free of the deadly disease. A spokesman for the West African nation's health minister told a local radio station on Wednesday that many Ghanaians had contacted …
After a nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone was discharged Wednesday from a Rome hospital, a doctor there described the experimental treatments the patient had received as “absolutely miraculous.” They included MIL77, a product from China that was also given to a British Army nurse who recovered from Ebola …
Ebola-hit Guinea has extended a health emergency declared in March until the end of June, citing the persistence of the deadly virus in the country, the presidency said on Saturday. The decision was taken on Friday by President Alpha Conde, the statement said, after he met his counterpart from Sierra …
An epidemic of meningitis has killed 545 people in Niger, out of 8,234 people who caught the disease, but has now peaked, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The WHO had said that the epidemic was worrying and unprecedented because it was a strain not normally found in Africa …
A vaccine developer from Nigeria, Dr Simon Agwale Friday in Paris, France, presented his progress report on Ebola vaccine saying that he "developed an EBOV candidate vaccine that is highly immunogenic in mice." Dr Agwale is among over 300 delegates drawn from forty-two countries to mark the International Conference on …
Congolese expert Jean-Jacques Muyembe may be little known to the public, but he has been one of the world's top Ebola investigators since the first epidemic erupted in central Africa in 1976. Now, amid a decline in a West African outbreak that has taken more than 11,000 lives, Muyembe warns …
KARACHI: About one third of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis (TB) bacteria. Only a small proportion of those infected will become sick with TB. According to WHO report, people with weakened immune systems have a much greater risk of falling ill from TB. A person living with HIV …
