A modelling group convened by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS has estimated that if efforts are not made to mitigate and overcome interruptions in health services and supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, a six-month disruption of antiretroviral therapy could lead to more than 500 000 extra deaths from AIDS-related …
Heartened by the success rate of the new laboratories across Maharashtra in testing multi-drug resistant tuberculosis samples (MDR-TB), authorities of the state TB control programme are toying with the idea of setting up a similar detection centre for a more virulent strain — the extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB — …
Drug resistance seems to have emerged as an endemic problem in India and the Union Health Ministry has written to the Planning Commission asking for a national programme to tackle anti-microbial resistance and cover the whole gamut of pathogens. If the Planning Commission decides to include it in the 12th …
Cases of infant mortality continued to grow in January compared to previous months with on average 65 children per district dying before their first birthday as compared to 56 in December and 51 in November 2011. Of the 34 districts that registered 2,212 cases of infant mortality, Gujrat (221), Sahiwal …
Jammu: It seems the efforts of the government to control tuberculosis have not received much success in Jammu and Kashmir as nearly 4,000 cases have been detected in the Jammu region alone during 2010-11. As many as 26,000 people visited the Chest Disease Hospital in Jammu last year with symptoms …
The Union Health Ministry’s plan to upgrade the Baccillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) Vaccine Laboratory in Guindy in Tamil Nadu has hit a wall with the State Government yet to give its nod for acquiring land for the unit. The vaccine unit among two others — Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli …
Chest specialists Association office bearers said that Tuberculosis (TB) among infectious diseases is the second most common cause of death in the world. It takes almost 2 million lives every year. Delivering their speeches at a seminar on prevention of TB, Dr Abdul Shakoor, Tehmina Rafique, Zafar Ali syed, Muhammad …
The government on Tuesday contested the WHO figures that put the number of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases in India at 63,000, saying there were only 10,267. As many as 38,287 suspected cases were examined till the end of 2011 and of them, 10,267 have been diagnosed with MDR-TB and …
On the occasion of the World TB Day, the government has launched initiatives to eradicate tuberculosis by 2050 from the country. For this, the government has accorded top priority to TB control programmes, said Dr. Kashi Kant Jha, director of the National TB Centre and SAARC TB and AIDS Centre.The …
The percentage of MDR in new TB cases in India is 2.1 India had an estimated 63,000 cases of notified multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2010, the highest in the South East Asia region, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The MDR-TB prevalence is estimated to be 2.3 per …
Pune: Thirty-six new cases of multiple-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have been reported in Pune district in the last 40 days. Experts fear that MDR tuberculosis and its deadlier cousin — extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR) — may soon pose a bigger threat than HIV/AIDS. Fifteen of the 36 MDR patients are …
The wait for a faster and a more economical testing method for suspected tuberculosis cases may finally be over. The state health department will soon launch a new testing device, called Gene X-pert, which can generate a TB-test report within two hours. To be launched as part of a pilot …
The Health Ministry has decided to ban serological diagnostic test for tuberculosis, in line with a World Health Organisation recommendation. India is going to become the first country to execute the ban on the test, which is highly inaccurate but commonly used. It is estimated that 1.5 million patients are …
After Haryana ban, illegal mining shifts to Sikar’s hills Who’s The Quarry? More than 400 active leases in the Sikar belt 1,200 trucks move out of Rajasthan Aravallis daily In Dabla alone, 50 ha of land mined Area has five small rivers, three clogged with sludge. *** The ceiling of …
New Delhi: The annual budget to combat tuberculosis (TB), the deadly air-borne disease, for 2012-13 will see about 80% increase over last fiscal. While the country’s annual health budget is set to increase by a meagre 13% this year, the Planning Commission has decided to raise allocation for the TB …
The number of people affected by asthma has shown an alarming increase in Sri Lanka due to increased air pollution in the cities. This was revealed on Thursday (2) by Dr. Thalatha Liyanage, Director of the Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) Unit of the Health Education Bureau. She told The Island …
THE 1993 World Development Report (WDR) was subtitled ‘Investing in Health’ and advanced the argument that better health outcomes facilitate economic development.1 Even if one contests the direction of causation, correlation between better health outcomes and higher levels of economic development is not in doubt.
According to this WHO annual report on tuberculosis, India has recorded about 63,000 cases of notified multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2010, the highest in the South East Asia region. Countries in the WHO South-East Asia (SEA) Region have made significant progress towards the TB-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The …
Around 64,000 people die due to tuberculosis while 3.3 lakh get infected afresh every year in Bangladesh, said a report of the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP). Of the total infected people, over 50 percent are female while 3.15 percent are children aged below 15 years, the report said. NTP …
The Open Source Drug Discovery network's army of volunteers is building a kind of Wikipedia on tuberculosis, which is the leading cause of death in India for those in the prime of life.
The Asia-Pacific region has made great strides in reducing poverty and is moving fast towards other development goals, but levels of hunger, and child and maternal mortality are still high, according to a United Nations and Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released here today. The Asia-Pacific region has already reached …
