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 …
SHILLONG: The culling of bird-flu infected fowls within 3 km radius from the Government poultry farm in Williamnagar, East Garo Hills is expected to be completed by Wednesday. “We will complete the culling operation in the remaining four villages within 3 km radius by Wednesday. We are carrying out this …
Steep declines in fatal cases of lung and breast cancer have led the drop in cancer deaths in the United States in the last several years, according to data by the American Cancer Society Wednesday. In all, more than a million deaths have been avoided since cancer mortality first began …
The World Malaria Report 2011 summarizes information received from 106 malaria-endemic countries and a range of other sources. It analyses prevention and control measures according to a comprehensive set of indicators, and highlights continued progress towards global malaria targets. This year's report builds primarily on data received from countries for …
US President Barack Obama on Thursday added $50 million to fight AIDS in the United States and launched efforts to treat two million more people abroad. "We can beat this disease," Obama said at an event to mark World AIDS Day which included speeches by satellite from former presidents Bill …
Men who have sex with men (MSM) in India are disproportionately likely to be HIV-infected, and face distinct psychosocial challenges. Understanding the unique socio-cultural issues of MSM in India and how they relate to HIV risk could maximize the utility of future prevention efforts. This review discusses: (i) the importance …
The prevalence is 18 per cent in South India, says UNAIDS report India houses half of Asia's HIV patients and is way ahead of China in disease burden. It also finds a place in the list of 22 countries prioritised for preventing mother to child transmission infection, according to the …
Health activists have reacted strongly to the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to cancel new grants to the three pandemics until 2014. The decision was taken at the 25 th Board of the Global Fund as a consequence of donor governments' failure to fulfil …
India, which has one of the highest population of HIV-infected people in Asia, has witnessed a decline in new infections by a significant 56 per cent from the epidemic's peak in 1996, with other Asian countries also showing a plunge. According to the UNAIDS World Aids Day report 2011, the …
Bhopal : The malaria situation in Madhya Pradesh has reached a critical level with the death toll consistently increasing every day and the opposition parties slamming the ruling BJP government for its failure to contain the epidemic like situation. While the exact state wide death toll is not clear, tribal …
With the malaria situation in Madhya Pradesh reaching a critical level as the death toll increasing consistently every day, the BJP government has been slammed by the Opposition parties for its alleged failure to contain the epidemic-like situation and they have demanded removal of State Health Minister Narottam Mishra. Mr. …
SHILLONG: There is a major question about the quality of the water being pumped through the source at Umsohlang stream in Mawlai Mawdatbaki. The water through this source is supplied to various localities in Mawlai after being treated at a treatment plant at Umsohlang. During the inspection on Wednesday, a …
Mumbai: One in every five Indian adults living in urban cities suffers not only from hypertension but also diabetes. In Maharashtra, one in three persons is struck by the twin epidemic. These are some of the highlights of India’s largest clinic-based survey to assess the prevalence of diabetes and hypertension. …
The family from a nearby village arrived at the small hospital here vomiting and with uncontrollable diarrhea, at first glance maybe a typical case of consuming bad food or water. But the fluid loss was tremendous and unstoppable; two of the three brothers were already near death, and within hours …
A year after cholera broke out in the aftermath of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake, the epidemic has disappeared from the headlines, but it continues to wreak a deadly toll. Mortality rates remain high in some areas, but donor funding for front-line response teams is drying up, even as a …
‘Residents of Pampa basin face health risk due to river pollution' People residing in the Pampa river basin up to Kuttanad are exposed to grave health risks during the ‘Mandalam-Makaravilakku' pilgrimage season since the river gets increasingly polluted then, N.K. Sukumaran Nair, Pampa Parirakshana Samiti general secretary, has said. The …
AHMEDABAD: The attack of dengue and malaria in the city may be more severe than what is reflected by the figures given out by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). The situation is grave as the civic body has given data of cases in municipal hospitals only. Private hospitals too are …
An ambitious, large-scale HIV/AIDS public health programme prevented an estimated 100,000 new infections in parts of the country hit hardest by the AIDS epidemic, indicating that HIV prevention programmes that target high-risk groups can reduce HIV rates in the broader population. This is revealed by a new analysis by the …
Japanese encephalitis (JE) has claimed the lives of eight more children in the last five days in Bihar's Gaya district, taking the death toll in the epidemic to 62, a health official said Thursday. The two children died in the last 24 hours and six in the last five days …
The encephalitis-related deaths have acquired an alarming rate here. Between Wednesday and Thursday, a death was reported every two hours at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College. But it’s not the virus alone that is responsible for the spiraling death rate. Factors like shortage of ventilators and staff, unrest …
KOCHI: The wheels of bureaucracy has finally creaked to tackle the issue of replacing damaged pipelines in West Kochi, with the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) proposing a project estimated at Rs 2 crores for replacing old and damaged underground water pipelines in the area. “The estimate has been sent to …
