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 …
The total numbers of dengue cases have reached 26 this year, according to a data released by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) on Monday. On the other hand, the total number of people affected by malaria stood at seven while that of chikungunya at 10. Breeding of mosquitoes has …
The Malaria Summit, London, saw 14 Heads of State and Government, Bill Gates, scientists and private sector and international organisations making significant commitments that will catalyse progress towards beating malaria at a time when efforts to end the preventable disease have stalled. High level political commitments to beat malaria were …
Diarrhoea cases also on the rise in densely populated areas With the onset of summer season, cases of malaria and diarrhoea have started surfacing in the densely populated areas of the city. While the city has witnessed its first malaria case in Mani Majra, there is a spurt in diarrhoea …
Speaking to ANGOP, the source said that, compared to the previous period, there were more than 100 deaths, and said that the province's health authorities continue to work to reduce malaria deaths, calling on the population's sensitivity to collaborate in the cleaning of the neighborhoods and the puddles, to avoid …
The bench also directed the Delhi government to place on affidavit its calculation based on which it has been releasing funds to the MCDs. Non-payment of wages and salaries to safai karamcharis will lead to “anarchy” in the capital, and filth will be seen all around the roads, the Delhi …
Ludhiana: Though not even a single case of dengue, malaria, or chikungunya has surfaced in the district due to the recent rainfall and sudden upsurge in the temperature, the district health department has advised the public to be cautious in this season and adopt preventive measures. Health officials have also …
Kenyan researchers said on Saturday that they plan to use a combination of new drugs as well as a vaccine in order to end malaria menace in the country. Lucas Otieno, Deputy Director of Clinical Operations at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), told Xinhua in Nairobi that the illness …
Kenya plans to progressively increase domestic funding for combating malaria in order to eradicate malaria by 2030, an official said on Monday. Erjesa Waqo, Head of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) at the Ministry of Health, told a media briefing in Nairobi that currently government financing constitutes only about …
DEHRADUN: A year after Uttarakhand witnessed over 700 cases of dengue; the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) has decided to initiate steps at the earliest to check spread of malaria and dengue in the city. As part of the plan, testing of water samples from across the city will be done …
In the PIL, filed in the Bombay High Court on Tuesday, the NGO stated that doctors commonly use the rapid antibody test kits for initiating treatment for malaria. Days after the central government banned manufacture, distribution and sale of rapid diagnostic test kits to detect the antibody for malaria, the …
Blaming the rising number of malaria incidents to the wrong diagnosis in the private sector, the Government has banned antibody test kits (serological tests) which is being rampantly used by the private medical practitioners to detect the vector-borne disease in the country. Intriguingly, diagnostic test for malaria based on the …
Abuja — Nigeria loses an estimated N300 billion annually to treatment and prevention, including loss of man-hours annually to malaria, the National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP) has stated. It said Artemisinin-based Cobination Therapy (ACTs) remains the recommended medicine for malaria as stated by the World Health Organisation, as the use …
The summer season is an invitation to diseases such as dengue, malaria and chikungunya. If little care is taken, then one can easily save himself/herself from the vector borne disease. The first formula to ward off mosquitoes from the house is to plant few plants in and around the house …
Although Plasmodium vivax infection is a frequent cause of malaria worldwide, severe presentations have been more regularly described only in recent years. In this setting, despite clinical descriptions of multi-organ involvement, data associating it with kidney dysfunction are relatively scarce. Here, renal dysfunction is retrospectively analyzed in a large cohort …
More than 78 lakh houses across the state were screened in a door-to-door screening campaign for seasonal diseases like dengue, chikungunya and malaria including swine flu by the health department. The three-day long campaign, ‘Swasthya Dal Aapke Dwar’ (health team at your doorstep), was carried out from March 21 to …
Jaipur: A large numbers of residents were found harbouring mosquito larvae in their water coolers etc. Unfortunately, the state has no provision of penalising such people like in other cities such as Mumbai. Around two per cent of the total water tanks checked by health officials placed in houses or …
Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease, caused by five different species of the genus Plasmodium, and is endemic to many tropical and sub-tropical countries of the globe. At present, malaria diagnosis at the primary health care level in India is conducted by either microscopy or rapid diagnostic test (RDT). In …
Dr Upendrajeet Singh Gill, Assistant Director Malaria, union territory health department, said that the malaria wing has been directed to take strict action against the violators of the city’s civic norms Aiming to prevent the spread of vector-borne diseases in the city this year, the Chandigarh health department has issued …
As many as 639 cases of waterborne diseases have been reported till March 17, according to the Health Department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. The information was revealed in a press note issued by the civic body on Monday. The data indicates that 37 people were victims of waterborne diseases …
CHARMINAR: Even as anti-fogging and anti-larval operations are being carried out, there has been an alarming rise in malaria and dengue cases in the Old City. Doctors are attributing it to a sudden change in weather, which is conducive to breeding of mosquitoes. “Cases of patients suffering from malaria and …
