This document is the second in a series of global reports describing progress towards the 2030 targets set in Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030. It describes a wide range of activities, accomplishments and challenges across the portfolio of …
The sporadic cases of typhoid recorded in Harare's Hopley, Glen Norah and Hatfield last week have spread to Budiriro, raising fears of an outbreak, amid scarce resources to control the bacterial infection. The single case recorded in Budiriro brought to six the number of confirmed cases so far, with more …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that 'mosquito-borne Zika virus' could spread rapidly across the globe to parts of Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, southern Europe and southern parts of the United States, Margaret Chan, WHO director-general, said in a statement on Friday. The organisation will meet on Monday in …
Madhya Pradesh State MDG Status report is not just an accounting exercise to assess the achievement levels of Millennium Development Goals. The report responds to multidimensional aspirations of inter-district variations, interlinkages with public interventions and achievement levels. It studies the burden of non-achieving regions or districts on MP State’s overall …
This publication, 4th in series, has been prepared with the objective of providing help to policy and programme making for elderly population. Attempts have been made to cull out data on different aspects of elderly population from different sources and put them together at one place along with the national …
Six people have been confirmed to have died of Pneumococcal and Meningococcal meningitis in the Ashanti region. Four of the deaths were attributed to Pneumococcal meningitis while the other two deaths resulted from Meningococcal meningitis. The deaths are among 17 suspected meningitis cases of which nine were confirmed to have …
Portuguese authorities confirmed Wednesday five cases of the Zika virus have been diagnosed, according to the National Health Institute Doctor Ricardo Jorge (INSA). The INSA, which is charged with diagnosing Zika cases, said that the five diagnosed in Portugal contracted the virus in Brazil. The Zika virus is transmitted to …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it suspects a link between the mosquito-borne Zika virus and a rare birth defect involving abnormally small heads, but so far the evidence is circumstantial. The recent outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in South America serves as a stark reminder of the health …
The joint World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and World Health Organization (WHO) Climate and Health Office has issued a briefing paper about health and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) as part of a wider WHO effort to review the current health risks and responses of the El Nino event in …
Abuja — The federal government has warned that the current outbreak of Lassa fever could kill 1,000 Nigerians, adding that it has spread to 17 states in the country, with Edo, Rivers, Nasarawa and Taraba States identified as hotspots of the virus. The three states identified as hotspots joined Bauchi, …
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners predict a major global increase in health consequences of emergencies this year due to El Niño. El Niño is a warming of the central to eastern tropical Pacific Ocean which affects rainfall patterns and temperatures in many parts of the world but …
Paraguay could face problems this year with dengue and other fevers transmitted by mosquitoes, which have proliferated due to rainy weather during the Southern Hemisphere summer, a health ministry official said on Tuesday. Paraguay had a record 150,000 dengue infections and 262 deaths in 2013. Concern this year extends to …
New figures from Brazil show a further rise in the number of babies born with abnormally small heads to mothers infected with the Zika virus. There have been 3,893 cases of microcephaly since October, when the authorities first noticed a surge, up from 3,500 in last week's report. Zika is …
More than half of the children in 10 out of 15 states are still anaemic shows National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) for 2015-16 released by the Union Health Ministry today said. It also showed that more than half of women were anaemic in eleven states . The Ministry of Health …
Ticks that can carry the debilitating illness Lyme disease have significantly spread across the US over the past 20 years and are now found in nearly half of all American counties, including areas where they’ve never previously been documented, a new analysis has found. The black-legged tick is now established …
The Brazilian government announced it will direct funds to a biomedical research center to help develop a vaccine against a virus linked to brain damage in babies. Health Minister Marcelo Castro said Friday that the goal is for the Sao Paulo-based Butantan Institute to develop "in record time" a vaccine …
Dozens of people have died in Nigeria following a Lassa fever outbreak amid fears the death toll might increase. At least 44 people were declared dead across more than 10 states after being infected with the hemorrhagic fever. Authorities said the outbreak is under control and urged citizens to remain …
Outdoor air pollution is a major determinant of health worldwide. The greatest public health effects are from increased mortality in adults. However, both PM and O3 also cause a wide range of other, less serious, health outcomes; and there are effects on mortality and morbidity of other pollutants also, e.g. …
SYDNEY: Winemakers in Australia's oldest growing region fear a ruined harvest after heavy rainfall, while vineyards in the country's west are under threat from bushfires, undermining efforts to recover from a near decadelong run of lower exports. Just weeks out from the 2016 harvest, the contrasting events highlight the challenges …
Polio transmission may be at its lowest-ever levels globally, but a top WHO official warns that the risk of importation of the virus into all polio-free areas still persists. On January 13, WHO South-East Asia Region completed five years without any case of wild polio virus. “Globally, polio transmission is …
The residents of Lambabasti and Kajirgram, near Banskandie area of Lakhipur subdivision, are going through a lot of hardships as the local plant of water supply scheme has not been functioning for the past one year and two months. The aggrieved citizens have been left with no other alternative but …
