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 …
In the early weeks of January 2012, a report of four cases of tuberculosis from Mumbai, India, stirred up a storm.1 India bears a giant's share of the world's multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) burden, but these cases were different even though they came from a centre (Hinduja Hospital and Research Center) …
MUMBAI: Bill Gates, the world's richest man, has mega plans for India's children. Sometime this year, a desi vaccine developed and produced as part of his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's work may get governmental nod to be distributed throughout India for Rs54 apiece. "I am waiting for the day …
50 cases detected in state in past few years, patients put on high-level medication More than 50 multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases have been detected in the state in the past few years and the patients have been put on high-level medication. Though the state has a full-fledged anti-TB wing …
India on Tuesday unveiled its first breakthrough vaccine for severe rotavirus diarrhoea, which kills more than 1 lakh children under five in the country every year. Billed as India’s first social innovation and novel vaccine development project, the locally made affordable vaccine—Rotavac—is likely to be launched in the first quarter …
Pune: A national forum on tuberculosis (TB) has been launched to raise awareness on the need for better control of condition. Members of the forum will meet and discuss critical challenges in TB control, based on which, members will make recommendations to the Union ministry of health and family welfare …
One person dies of Tuberculosis every minute in India. The problem is equally severe in Chandigarh and adjoining areas where the prevalence of Multi Drug Resistance Tuberculosis (MDRTB) is as high as 9%, as per the research conducted by the doctors of PGIMER. The study was conducted by Dr Sunil …
A PGI study has revealed the incidence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) in the Northern region is much higher than the WHO estimates. The study, which was published in the BMC infectious diseases journal in March this year, has found that the incidence of the MDRTB is 9 per cent …
13 tribal children have died in Attappady of Palakkad district this year Kerala’s claims to world fame for its high human development indices appear to be tottering with children in the tribal heartland of Attappady in Palakkad district dying of malnutrition. In the last 15 months, as many as 29 …
Pakistan is among the high ranking countries where people are still get affected of preventable diseases like tuberculosis, polio and malaria while non-communicable diseases are raising vigorously in different cities due to apathy of the authorities concerned which is not playing its due role, said Dr Ahmed Salman Khan Ghauri, …
M. Konyak, a farmer from Shanghah village of Mon — a remote district in Nagaland — is currently undergoing treatment for drug-resistant TB at the Civil Hospital in Mon town. His village is a long way from the clinic and so each month, he has to take a bus early …
The World Bank approved yesterday a concessionary loan of US $ 200 million to Sri Lanka for the Second Health Sector Development Project (SHSDP) to help the Sri Lankan government to upgrade the standards of performance of the public health system and enable it to better respond to the challenges …
The World Bank on Wednesday (27) approved a concessionary loan of US$ 200 million, at an interest rate of 1.25 percent, to Sri Lanka for the Health Sector Development Project to help the government upgrade the standards of performance of the public health system and enable it to better respond …
India may have achieved a success rate of 88 per cent in treatment of tuberculosis — higher than the global treatment success rate of 85 per cent — but HIV-TB co-infection continues to be a cause of major concern, as the percentage of people infected with the twin infection increased …
The Delhi Government launched three new schemes on Sunday in an attempt to achieve zero deaths from tuberculosis in the Capital. Minister of Health and Family Welfare A.K. Walia, who launched the schemes to coincide with World TB Day, said they will specifically focus on homeless people. The initiative will …
More and more people in the age group of 17-40 were being diagnosed with tuberculosis, said Madan Gopal, Principal Secretary of the Department of Health and Family Welfare, on Sunday. Speaking at an event organised as part of World Tuberculosis Day at Freedom Park, Gopal said “A majority of the …
Around 90,000 people are living with tuberculosis in the country, and around 5,000 of them die of the disease every year, Nepali health officials said today as World TB Day is commemorated across the world. Members of the general public takin part in a rally organised to mark International TB …
Health experts have said that prevention of tuberculosis is still a big challenge in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the number of patients has increased during the last one year in the province. Addressing at a press conference here on Tuesday, Dr Obaid Hussain, the project director of Provincial TB Control Programme, …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said on Monday that strains of tuberculosis with resistance to multiple drugs could spread widely. The International health agencies also highlighted an annual need of at least US$ 1.6 billion in international funding for treatment …
Nearly 13,000 Tuberculosis (TB) patients were detected per year in the country but a majority of them were reluctant to take the prescribed doses of medicine, Director General of Health Services Dr. Palitha Maheepala said yesterday. He said that most patients waited till the last minute to rush to a …
KANPUR: During the national seminar named PACT Vision-2013 at the campus of HBTI, GN Tewari, alumnus of HBTI, informed that the solvent-based paints pollute the environment while the water-based paints have least affect on the environment. The water-based paints are also known as green paint or eco-friendly paints. "The vapours …
