Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Nairobi — The Global Fund Technical Review Panel has approved Kenya's Funding request for $335,631,852, which was submitted on May 23 this year. Kenya's funding application was found to be technically sound and strategically focused. The panel also recommended that Kenya proceeds with the grant making process. The revelation was …
CAPE TOWN South Africa (Xinhua) -- The estimated overall HIV prevalence rate is approximately 12.6 percent among the South African population, the highest prevalence in the world, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Monday. The total number of people living with HIV is estimated at approximately 7.06 million in …
Paris – At least 30 to 40 percent of people who are HIV positive in sub-Saharan Africa are dying due to late diagnosis and treatment failure, Medecins Sans Frontiers has said. MSF, an international medical humanitarian organisation, said one third of the estimated 30 to 40 percent deaths occurred within …
Celeste is a 30-year-old widow mother of two from the poor suburbs of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. She is HIV-positive, and since her husband died from an Aids-related illness last year, she has no way of supporting herself, though she tries to help her mother work her small vegetable patch. One …
An NGO, New Vision Foundation International, has revealed that residents who live in coastal communities in the country are prone to more viral and bacterial diseases than urban dwellers. According to the Executive Director of the Foundation, Gabriel Adams, the revelation comes from a research conducted by his outfit in …
Bengaluru: Eleven districts of Karnataka recorded 837 fresh tuberculosis cases in a week starting July 17 this year, data from the state government's ongoing Active Case Finding initiative, part of the move to make India TB free by 2025, has revealed. "This is worrying as these are confirmed cases. We …
PUNE: Four persons from Bhavani Peth and Yerawada areas have tested positive for leptospirosis at a state government referral laboratory this month. "Five people have tested positive for leptospirosis in July. Among them, four were residents of Pune city, two each from Yerawada and Bhavani Peth, while the fifth one …
While Delhi is struggling hard to deal with the dengue and chikungunya menace, the rise in the cases of swine flu has put the entire nation on a red alert. As many as 320 cases of the H1N1 virus have been reported from the national capital as per the data …
Chandigarh: Even though three PGI doctors have contracted swine flu (H1N1 virus) recently, most doctors still shy away from taking the preventive vaccine. Doctors of the Sector-16 Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH) received the vaccine on June 6 but antibodies take at least two weeks to get activated. Also, a circular …
According to official estimates, until July 9, 12,460 people had been infected, and 600 had succumbed to swine flu in the country. Gujarat recorded 75 deaths from 289 infections; Kerala reported 63 deaths from 1,127 infections, Rajasthan saw 59 deaths from 407 reported cases; and Karnataka had 15 deaths from …
According to state health officials, doctors attributed the rise in number of swine flu cases to patients coming in late for treatment. Mumbai: Swine flu, a vector-borne disease, has so far claimed 330 lives in Maharashtra, making it the worst of swine flu-hit states in the country. Across India, the …
CHENNAI: The fogging machines may have turned to fight dengue, but the state hasn't fully washed its hands of another virus. Since January, Tamil Nadu recorded close to 3,000 cases of H1N1influenza virus - the highest in the country. This is a 32-fold jump from last year, when 122 people …
A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in South Africa. The child, whose identity is being protected, was given a burst of treatment shortly after birth. They have since been off drugs for eight-and-a-half years without symptoms or …
A package of low-cost drugs designed to prevent deadly infections among people who are starting HIV treatment late could save 10,000 lives a year across sub-Saharan Africa, scientists believe. About one in five people who start HIV treatment in poorer countries are doing so later than advisable, which means they …
The death toll in Maharashtra so far this year is higher than the number of deaths from H1N1 in the whole country in 2016 — 265 Replying to an unstarred question, Health Minister J P Nadda informed Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that 600 people had died of H1N1 infections until …
GURUGRAM: An advisory has been issued on Monday by the state health department following a rise in the swine flu cases in other parts of the country. The advisory instructs all hospitals to take immediate action when a patient is suspected of being infected with swine flu. In Gurgaon, 37 …
Statistics show a steep rise in the spread of H1N1 virus in the city Four-year-old resident of Mankhurd was one of the five patients who lost their life due to Swine flu in Mumbai this month. According to the statistics provided by the BMC's public health department, in the month …
About 12,460 people have been affected by swine flu till July 9, 2017, and 600 people have died due to the H1N1 virus. India is witnessing a spurt in the number of deaths and infections caused by swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, this year. As per a …
MUMBAI: A 10-month-old infant from Goregaon, Mumbai, has lost his sense of recognition and is unable to identify familiar faces, including his parents', following a neurological complication caused by influenza H1N1. The extensive brain impairment in the baby has sent warning bells among clinicians that the viral infection can go …
DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand health department has sounded an alert after recording four swine flu deaths in the last eight days. According to the health department, since January this year 21 cases were reported from the state, of which 17 were positive. All four —one from Tehri, one from Pauri and …
