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 …
The seventh reported outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the equatorial African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) began on July 26, 2014, as another large EVD epidemic continued to spread in West Africa. Simultaneous reports of EVD in equatorial and West Africa raised the question of …
THE United States Government has launched a US$25million project towards HIV/AIDS prevention in Zambia. The project aims at maintaining the existing HIV/AIDS services and scale-up of treatment as prevention, strengthening the health system and supporting Government priorities. Speaking during the launch of the Zambia Prevention, Care and Treatment Partnership (ZPCT …
Ebola has substantially impacted all sectors of employment in the Liberian economy, in both affected and non-affected counties, according to the most recent round of mobile phone surveys conducted by the World Bank Group in partnership with the Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services and the Gallup Organization. In …
Released on 18 November ahead of World AIDS Day, the UNAIDS report outlines new targets for the five-year window UNAIDS says is crucial to ending the global threat of HIV. The 40-page report begins with a bold quote arguing that the world has just five years to scale up HIV …
The global Ebola infection tally has surpassed 15,000. Sierra Leone confirmed 533 new cases in the week to November 16, accounting for much of the increase. Cases of Ebola reached 15,145, with 5,420 deaths, through November 16 - almost all in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, which reported the steepest …
Beyond its terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic has inflicted a measurable economic impact on West Africa in terms of forgone output, higher fiscal deficits, rising prices, lower real household incomes, and greater poverty. This impact results partly from the health-care costs and forgone productivity associated …
Londuimbali — At least 36 new cases of HIV/AIDS were diagnosed from January until the first half of November this year, in the commune of Alto-Hama Hospital, 66 kilometers north off Huambo city, compared to 15 recorded in the same previous period. Speaking to ANGOP, the head of the Centre …
The Ebola virus disease that has caused a medical emergency in the three-most affected countries in West Africa is also affecting the means of making a living of millions of the poorest and most vulnerable people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, risking development gains made over the past decades. …
n mid-October 2014, the number of cases of the West Africa Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia exceeded 9,000 cases. The early growth dynamics of the epidemic has been qualitatively different for each of the three countries. However, it is important to understand these disparate dynamics as …
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is totally unprecedented. The accelerating number of cases, the poor health infrastructure in affected countries, the short supply of skills, knowledge and personnel, and the fear surrounding this disease are providing a huge challenge to affected governments and the international community as they …
A high-level emergency meeting, convened by the World Health Organization at the request of several governments and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, was held on 23 October to look at the many complex policy issues that surround eventual access to experimental Ebola vaccines. Ways to ensure the fair distribution and …
This is the nineteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country levels using data reported …
A second, smaller Ebola outbreak has been going on in Africa, and a new study shows it has a different source in nature than the massive epidemic raging now in the western part of the continent. The outbreak that began in July in the Democratic Republic of Congo is similar …
Following the non-detection of new Ebola cases in Senegal and Nigeria after the requisite 42 days of active surveillance that is currently in place, the World Health Organisation is set to declare the end of the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the two countries. The anticipated declaration that …
The Government of the United States has announced additional US$65M aid to Liberia to help tackle the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) across the country. The pronouncement was made on Tuesday, October 14 by the Administrator of the United States Aid for International Development (USAID), Dr. Rajiv …
The Ebola outbreak is worsening in the three West Africa countries where the disease is concentrated, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, reporting the total number of cases was nearing 9,000. In an update, the United Nations health agency said 4,493 people had died of confirmed, suspected or probable cases …
The death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak has risen to 4,447, with the large majority of victims in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward also said there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week within two months if efforts were …
Nigeria and Senegal could be declared Ebola-free within days after completing a 42-day period with no new cases, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. "If the active surveillance for new cases that is currently in place continues, and no new cases are detected, WHO will declare the end of …
MONROVIA, Liberia—The U.S. government added another $142 million to its effort to fight Ebola in West Africa on Tuesday in a push to speed up the international response that many worry may be too late for the devastated region. Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, …
The number of new Ebola cases in three West African nations may jump to between 5,000 and 10,000 a week by Dec. 1 as the deadly viral infection spreads, the World Health Organization said. The outbreak is still expanding geographically in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and accelerating in capital …
