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 …
What exactly is the Unani system of medicine? The Unani system of medicine gets its name from Unan (Greece) where it originated. The system is research-based and incorporates a large number of drugs from Ayurveda and Siddha . According to this system, what is the reason behind one's ailment and …
at least 120 countries have agreed to become signatories to a un treaty banning or restricting the use of 12 toxic chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants ( pop s). The treaty, known as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, was signed on May 23, 2001, and will become …
With the emergence of vector-borne diseases, population pressure and unhealthy living conditions, a very focussed approach and long-term planning is needed in disease control. If all human-made changes and pressure of unscientific exploitation of natural resources are not halted, the planet Earth will not remain a habitable place. The case …
Goat milk may become the source of malaria vaccines in coming times. Researchers have made genetic modifications in mice to alter the character of the milk they produce. This milk has been successfully used to vaccinate monkeys from the attack of the Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The scietist beileive the same …
vinod Prakash Sharma, an expert on malaria, has bagged the Green Scientist Award 2001 for his work on bioenvironmental control of malaria. The Centre for Science and Environment (cse), a New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation, has instituted the award that carries a citation and a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh. …
About half of Cameroon's rural population and some 42 per cent of urban residents have no access to potable water, according to the country's ministry of mines, water and power. "Waterborne diseases such as amoebic infections, typhoid fever and malaria are common as people are forced to drink the contaminated …
In rural India, malaria continues to claim the lives of thousands of people. Vector control using DDT (dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane) has been known to lead to several environmental ill-effects. Now T Bhuvaneswaramma, a resident of Chennai, claims to have developed a mosquito repellent that contains only natural materials and not any …
the past few years have seen an alarming increase in the number of malaria cases. The World Health Organisation ( who ) puts the annual number of cases between 300-500 million, and deaths between 1.5-2.7 million. Controlling the disease has become difficult due to insecticide resistance in the mosquito and …
once bitten, twice shy. Well, that cannot be said for authorities of India's anti-malaria programme whose strategy to counter this deadly disease does not seem to have worked. Consider this: there has been an increase of 2.31 per cent in the number of malaria cases this year. Bihar, Orissa and …
why are mosquitoes and other winged creatures partial to pregnant women? While scientists always suspected that it is something to do with one's skin or more specifically its secretions
to help various countries assess the complexity of the hazards posed by persistent organic pollutants ( pops) , the United Nations Environment Programme recently held a meeting in Moscow, Russia, from July 11-14, 2000. The meeting specifically focused on the problems faced by the Commonwealth of Independent States, Estonia, Latvia …
at least 231 people have died in Orissa due to malaria, which has spread in eight western districts of the state. According to official figures more than 1,00,00 people have been affected. The district surveillance system which examined about 1.3 million blood samples in Koraput, Bolangir and Kalahandi districts found …
malaria poses a serious public health problem in India with three million cases being reported every year. With the malaria-spreading mosquitoes becoming resistant to pesticides and the malaria parasite developing immunity to drugs, the problem is all the more threatening. One way to deal with it is the insecticide treated …
cases of malaria are on the rise across the world. Malaria, transmitted by the Anopheles mosquitoes, kills over one million people and causes 300-500 million episodes of illness each year. Majority of the 3,000 deaths each day and 10 new cases each second occur in Africa. Malaria not only takes …
If malaria experts are to be believed, Kenyan health authorities could face serious embarrassment in the future for their reluctance to fully commit themselves to a programme designed to make an effective malaria drug. The project, known as Malarone Donation Programme, is supported by Glaxo Wellcome, a multinational pharmaceutical company. …
The digital protest No one could have ever imagined that digital technology would one day prove to be a powerful weapon for protest. But while the hectic World Trade Organisation (WTO) meet in Seattle, USA, was on protests that grabbed the headlines the world over were coordinated on the Net …
community participation can work wonders , especially when it comes to tackling diseases like malaria. The Zimbabwe experience in recent years shows that, in what otherwise appears to be a hopeless situation, communities can reverse the fortunes of thousands of people susceptible to the disease. Also referred to as a …
Major drug companies have joined the World Bank (WB) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to keep research in anti-malarial drugs from winding up because of the drugs' poor commercial potential. Each year 300 million to 500 million people fall prey to malaria, and a million die, mostly in Africa. …
