Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
NEW DELHI: In a move to sustain its improvements in reducing the HIV burden in India, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved continuation of the fourth phase of the National AIDS Control Programme beyond 12th five-year plan for three years from April 2017 to March 2020. …
LOS ANGELES — Once again taking aim at President Trump, California on Monday filed its 47th lawsuit against the administration, this time to block a move that would effectively strip millions of federal dollars from reproductive health providers that perform abortions and abortion referrals. Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has …
Sri Lanka's Health Ministry will introduce e-health cards by the end of this year, which will uplift the country's free state health sector, local media reported Thursday. Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said the e-cards will include all the health information of an individual citizen which will make free health care …
Kenya's health ministry said Thursday it will increase budgetary allocations towards the fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the country. Jackson Kioko, director of medical services in the Ministry of Health said that availability of sufficient funds will boost response to the rising toll of lifestyle diseases that have worsened …
The review, published in Nature, outlines how healthcare workers in low-income countries, like those in sub-Saharan Africa, could use existing smartphones to diagnose, track and control infectious diseases in low-income countries. There are already initiatives focused on using established mobile technologies like text messages and calls to connect healthcare workers …
The Delhi government on Tuesday allocated ₹7,485 crore for the health sector in its 2019-20 budget with Rs 588 crore being proposed for construction of new hospitals and re-modelling of existing ones. This includes revenue budget of ₹6,462 crore and capital budget of ₹1,023 crore. An amount of ₹3,737 crore …
The Delhi government has reduced the budget for one of its most popular and ambitious projects, the Aam Aadmi mohalla clinics, by 6.9% in 2019-2020. It has allocated Rs 375 crore for development of mohalla clinics and polyclinics this year, down from Rs 403 crore in 2018-2019. A total of …
The study estimates that vaccination and screening could result in cervical cancer being eliminated as a public health problem, with average rates across countries falling to less than 4 cases per 1 lakh by 2055-59 in countries with very high levels of development India can eliminate cervical cancer by 2079, …
At the PHC level, 25 types of lab tests will be conducted free-of-cost. Mumbai: The free lab-testing scheme has been launched in 2,315 government health institutions in the state and during the last one year, over 80 lakh patients have benefitted from this scheme. Nearly 1.82 crore medical tests of …
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) released draft guidelines on standardisation of individual health products. According to the guidelines, the standard indemnity health product should have basic mandatory covers and shall be uniform across the market. No additional add-ons or optional covers will be allowed along with …
Educationist and author Heramb Kulkarni talks about his report on food, loans, healthcare, migration in rural areas Namdev Savra of Jawhar tehsil in Palghar lost his child to malnutrition in 2016 and despite the State’s Women and Child Welfare department sanctioning a flour mill for him, the installed mill was …
Despite significant declines in under five mortality (U5M) over the last 3 decades, Kenya did not achieve Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) by 2015. To better understand trends and inequalities in child mortality, analysis of U5M variation at subnational decision making units is required. Here the comprehensive compilation and …
The revolution in hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment through the development of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has generated international interest in the global elimination of the disease as a public health threat. In 2017, this led WHO to establish elimination targets for 2030. We evaluated the impact of public health interventions …
Today, more than 8.1 million Nepalis live in poverty. Women and girls are more likely to be poor, despite the significant contribution they make to the economy, especially through unpaid care and household work. More than one-third of Nepal’s children under 5 years are stunted, and 10% suffer wasting due …
•Unveils disbursement of N55b healthcare fund •Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports healthcare fund with $ 1.5m President Muhammadu Buhari has launched second National Strategic Health Development Plan from 2018-2022) to attain the Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria.He also unveiled the first phase of the N55 billion Basic Health Care …
(Seychelles News Agency) - Music therapy, a new and unique form of health care in Seychelles, was introduced in the country this past year by two Russian specialists. This creative arts therapy is used to improve the physical and mental health of patients suffering from a wide range of health …
Teachers have been told to be part of the vaccination teams, along with the designated health workers, and to create awareness and sensitisation regarding the vaccine among students and parents in all government, government-aided and unaided recognised schools in Delhi. A section of teachers in Delhi have voiced concerns over …
Union Health Minister J P Nadda Thursday urged the Delhi government to implement the Centre's ambitious Ayushman Bharat scheme, saying not only the people of the national capital but those from other states who live in Delhi are also not getting health benefits under the initiative. The Union government on …
NEW DELHI: The public health expenditure in India, or what the government (Centre and state combined) spends on health, has remained constant over years in most states and is even less than the national average of 1.2% of GDP, making India one of the biggest private spenders on health among …
To inform plans to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), we estimated utilisation and unit cost of outpatient visits and inpatient admissions, did a decomposition analysis of utilisation, and estimated additional services and funds needed to meet a UHC standard for utilisation. Original Source
