India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). Each year, WHO’s World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across …
Drug-resistant malaria parasites have spread to border regions of Southeast Asia, seriously threatening global efforts to control and eliminate the mosquito-borne disease, researchers said on Wednesday. The scientists, who analysed blood samples from 1,241 malaria patients in 10 countries across Asia and Africa, found resistance to the world's most effective …
Making malaria vaccine available for routine use will be a major milestone, researchers say Experts say the world's first malaria vaccine could be approved for use in 2015. Reporting in PLOS Medicine, researchers found that for every 1,000 children who received the vaccine, an average of 800 cases of illness …
With one more person dying in North Dinajpore of suspected encephalitis on Monday, the state’s death toll due to the disease reached 120. North Bengal development minister Gautam Deb held meetings with district administration and subdivision administration members. “We had discussed several ways of spreading awareness as far as the …
Believed To Cure 90% Of Patients Even as a controversy rages globally over the eye-popping price of US firm Gilead Science’s hepatitis C drug at $1,000 a pill, Indian patients have already begun importing the medicine from countries like Canada, spending, in some cases, up to Rs 1 crore. The …
In a major achievement for Goa’s health sector, not a single polio case has been reported in the last 17 years with Health Department dishing out regular oral polio vaccine doses as part of the nationwide programs. PANJIM: In a major achievement for Goa’s health sector, not a single polio …
Bangladesh has made a remarkable success in reducing deaths from tuberculosis and malaria, says a study of the University of Washington. It says between 2000 and 2013, deaths from TB in the county have fallen by 6.7 percent compared to 3.7 percent globally, while deaths from malaria have fallen by …
A rise in malaria cases has been reported in the district with most cases being found among migrant labourers and those frequenting other States. Confirming the presence of anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malaria virus, District Medical Officer P. Gopinathan said cases were being reported from Kasaragod, Kanhangad and Neeleswaram municipalities …
In a startling revelation, an analysis for the Global burden of Diseases has suggested that estimates of the number of people living with HIV are 18•7 per cent smaller than UNAIDS’s estimates in 2012. The number of people living with malaria is larger than estimated by WHO. Significantly, the number …
KARACHI: Pakistan has registered accelerated decline in death rates from TB and malaria since 2000, when the Millennium Development Goals were established to stop the spread of these diseases by 2015. Although less pronounced, Malaria cases in Pakistan dropped to 2.9 percent annually between 2000 and 2013 while malaria mortality …
HIV/AIDS mortality rate rising by 11pc annually in Pakistan Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - Karachi—Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is claiming more lives in Pakistan than ever, says a first-of-its-kind analysis of trend data from 188 countries released on Monday. There has been an 11 per cent increase in …
The malaria situation across the country worsens, with the number of infected patients rising significantly in the three hill districts of Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachari. According to the health directorate, the number of malaria patients increased between 10,000 to 12,000 in the first six months while it was only 6,000 …
With monsoons advancing steadily into the city, cases of fever, malaria and gastroenteritis have observed a noticeable rise. From 1,278 cases of fever recorded by the civic health department in the first week of July, the cases jumped to 1,468 in the third week of July. For the same period, …
Last year, more than 545,500 Indians who did not suffer from HIV died from TB, males were almost twice as likely to be victims of the deadly disease, says a new report that will be published online in The Lancet Tuesday. Fewer people in India are dying from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, …
Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/Aids) is claiming more lives in Pakistan than ever, says a first-of-its-kind analysis of trend data from 188 countries released on Monday. There has been an 11 per cent increase in mortality rates from HIV/Aids in Pakistan, according to the study that examines data from …
In a bid to control vector borne diseases like malaria and dengue, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has prepared a databank on potential mosquito breeding places in the city. In this unique approach, KMC's health department has prepared a 9,048 page databank in which the civic body has identified permanent …
Morbidity due to non-communicable diseases accounts for a large share of disease burden in India The ninth edition of the National Health Profile, 2013, released here on Thursday, reveals that per capita private expenditure on health is three to four times higher than per capita public expenditure in all major …
To mediate its survival and virulence, the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum exports hundreds of proteins into the host erythrocyte. To enter the host cell, exported proteins must cross the parasitophorous vacuolar membrane (PVM) within which the parasite resides, but the mechanism remains unclear. A putative Plasmodium translocon of exported proteins …
One third of the extreme poor global population resides in India, a latest UN report has suggested. According to the UN Millennium Development Goals report, India has also recorded the highest number of under-five deaths in the world with 1.4 million children dying before reaching their fifth birthday. “The overwhelming …
Two-month long malaria epidemic in Tripura’s rural districts is now under control. However, hundreds of people are still being detected with the disease. The situation which went out of control improved with the help of NGOs and volunteers who worked alongside official teams in affected areas. “It was a fight …
Death Certificates Show Higher Toll, Says NGO Report The city's ill-health graph is a bit skewed, claimed NGO Praja Foundation on Tuesday. It used data drawn from BMC's health department to show a huge disparity between the number of deaths the civic body attributes to diseases and the reasons given …
