This document is the second in a series of global reports describing progress towards the 2030 targets set in Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030. It describes a wide range of activities, accomplishments and challenges across the portfolio of …
The leading underlying natural causes of death among South Africans in 2015 were tuberculosis and diabetes, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. Tuberculosis was responsible for 8.3% of deaths among males, while among women diabetes was the leading underlying natural cause of death responsible for 7.1% of their deaths, StatsSA …
Improving housing conditions may provide a boost to malaria prevention at a time when other efforts may be losing steam, according to new research. As Africa rapidly moves away from traditional mud-and-thatch housing, experts see a chance for architects and urban planners to join the fight against the disease. Bed …
The National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4), the fourth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health and nutrition for India and each State / Union territory. NFHS-4, for the first time, provides district-level estimates for many important indicators. This fact sheet provides information on key indicators and trends …
This national strategic plan (NSP) formulated by the Central Tuberculosis Division to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2025 aims to fight the bacteria by better detection, treatment, prevention, and strengthening policies. Doctors in the field, however, say the war against TB has to be started from the ground level — by …
For the first time a “tipping point” molecular link between the blood sugar glucose and Alzheimer’s disease has been established by scientists, who have shown that excess glucose damages a vital enzyme involved with inflammation response to the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Abnormally high blood sugar levels, or hyperglycaemia, is …
An experimental malaria vaccine protected healthy subjects from infection with a malaria strain different from that contained in the vaccine, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research was conducted by scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine …
The development provides hope in the fight against the deadly disease which has continued to threaten the lives of pregnant women and children. The news came as a report published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases this week showed that the Sanaria's Pf- SPZ vaccine confers significant protection against natural Malaria …
Dongola — The medical director of the Dongola Specialist Hospital in northern Sudan reports that the hospital admitted 20 cases of watery diarrhoea last week. On Thursday, Dr Moataz El Amin said in a press statement that the hospital received 20 people suffering from acute watery diarrhoea from the El …
Decreasing the effect of NCDs requires a more systematic response. This report describes how a human-centric health ecosystem (HCHE) can bring together stakeholders from the public and private sectors and create a context for cooperation to achieve shared goals: reducing the risks that bring about and worsen NCDs; providing efficient …
The ninth G-FINDER survey reports on 2015 global investment into research and development (R&D;) of new products for neglected diseases, and identifies trends and patterns across the nine years of global G-FINDER data. In all, 185 organisations completed the survey for FY2015, which covered: 39 neglected diseases; 160 product areas …
Air pollution is the leading environmental cause of death worldwide according to the State of Global Air 2017, a new, first annual report and interactive website launched at www.stateofglobalair.org. The report also finds that 92% of the world’s population lives in areas with unhealthy air. All told, long-term exposure to …
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) yesterday said that seven new cases of Lassa fever have been reported in Edo, Ondo and Bauchi states. There are four cases in Edo, two in Ondo and one in Bauchi. Meanwhile, healthcare workers in the country have been advised to always apply universal …
Salmonella infections are typically the culprit behind food poisoning outbreaks, but in sub-Saharan Africa, they often cause drug-resistant, deadly bloodstream infections and meningitis. A study in mice published February 8 in Cell Host & Microbe now reveals how these so-called African nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS) strains leave the gut and spread …
With over 8.8 million cancer deaths recorded globally yearly out of which an estimated 80,000 are Nigerians, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has called on specialists to pay special attention to early diagnosis of cancer, because most oncological diseases are curable, if identified early. According to new figures released by …
BANGLADESHI doctors yesterday conducted surgery to remove bark-like growths from the skin of a young girl believed to be the first female to suffer from a condition known as “tree man syndrome.” Sahana Khatun’s doctors said they hoped to release the 10-year-old from Dhaka’s Medical College Hospital within weeks after …
Launched ahead of the World Cancer Day (4 February), the new WHO guidance aims to improve the chances of survival for people living with cancer by ensuring that health services can focus on diagnosing and treating the disease earlier. Strategies to improve early diagnosis can be built into health systems …
MUMBAI: American scientists have made a research breakthrough in their study on dengue, a viral disease that wreaked havoc across India in the last two years, that could help treatment of the disease at a future date. Dengue emerged as one of the biggest public health problems of India in …
The Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development publishes the "Regions Adapt 2016" report. The report, developed with the collaboration of the Carbon Disclosure Project, contains an assessment of the risks arising from climate change and the adaptation actions that the 27 states and regions that make up this platform …
Undernutrition is a multi-sectoral problem with multi-sectoral solutions. By applying integrated approaches, the impact, coherence and efficiency of the action can be improved. This guidebook demonstrates the importance of both supplementing nutrition programmes with WASH activities and adapting WASH interventions to include nutritional considerations i.e. making them more nutrition-sensitive and …
The latest editorial in leading medical journal Lancet has severely criticised the health systems in India. Even as India sees a huge number of patients pouring into public and private hospitals, there is barely any research undertaken in the country related to health. “India vastly underperforms in terms of quality …
