The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
Shifting polio eradication strategies may have generated fear and “resistance” to the eradication program in Aligarh, India during the summer of 2009. Participant observation and formal interviews with 107 people from May to August 2009 indicated that the intensified frequency of vaccination was correlated with patients' doubt in the efficacy …
Shifting polio eradication strategies may have generated fear and “resistance” to the eradication program in Aligarh, India during the summer of 2009. Participant observation and formal interviews with 107 people from May to August 2009 indicated that the intensified frequency of vaccination was correlated with patients' doubt in the efficacy …
Cuban scientists said they have concluded the second round of the clinical trial of a potential vaccine against prostate cancer. Urologist Ranfis Rodriguez Monday said 56 patients, who were vaccinated in two hospitals, showed a remarkable improvement in their condition, reported Xinhua. A decrease in specific prostate tumour antigens was …
India’s lessons that finally led to eradicating crippling polio reached Nigeria after it sought India’s expertise recently in combating the virus. While India was taken off polio endemic list this year after it did not report any polio case, Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan have remained to be few countries that …
Saudi Arabia is to give $200 million to Pakistan to strengthen its vaccination programme meant for fighting childhood diseases, according to former Saudi health minister Dr Hussain A Gezairy. “The Islamic Investment Bank of Jeddah will shortly give the grant to Pakistan to help it fulfill the national obligation of …
New Delhi: The world’s first effective vaccine against dengue could be available by 2015. Scientists on Tuesday announced a major dengue vaccine breakthrough, with a candidate vaccine showing a 60%-90% protection rate against three virus strains (DENV 1, 3 and 4) that causes the mosquito-borne disease. The vaccine CYD-TDV was …
India had witnessed a sharp decline in the number of new HIV cases — a 56 per cent drop — in the past 10 years. “HIV infections have declined by 56 per cent during the last decade from 2.7 lakh in 2000 to 1.2 lakh in 2009 in our country,” …
The Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) V M Katoch on Thursday said the HIV vaccines being developed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, is set to undergo human clinical trials by next year. “Tests on animals have been completed and the results …
Polio vaccinators failed to reach 313,386 children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the recent three-day immunisation campaign, according to a World Health Organisation monitoring report. The report seen by Dawn said oral polio vaccine (OPV) couldn’t be administered to 2.1 million children in the country from July 16 to July 18 …
WHO and partners hope that they can fi nally rid the world of polio. But insurgency, Taliban-initiated boycotts, and a US$1 billion funding defi cit will not make it an easy task. Dara Mohammadi reports.
The disease has already claimed 145 lives in the region this year At a time when people are praying for a bountiful monsoon, rains bring death and devastation in the eastern belt of Uttar Pradesh. And if the locals are to be believed, the season of death has started as …
The death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in eastern Uttar Pradesh has now reached 154 with three children succumbing to the killer virus on Wednesday night. The three children died at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur where they had been admitted for treatment. A total of 663 encephalitis …
Around 22,000 Pakistani children are at risk in Karachi after the World Health Organisation (WHO) suspended polio vaccinations over a spate of bloody shootings, a UN official warned on Thursday. WHO, a partner in government efforts to eradicate the disease, suspended activities in part of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, last …
This is the report of a Technical Working Group which was convened, in April 2012, to develop an OCV stockpile implementation framework. Participants advised on: the criteria for choice of stockpiled vaccine and its deployment; the appropriate size of an OCV stockpile; the managing partnership and evaluation processes required; the …
Digital health-mapping service to be extended to all districts. If everything goes well, Uttar Pradesh can soon boast a state-wide digital health-mapping facility. Once implemented, the service will provide people access to information about essential medicines and vaccines at their doorsteps—through automated voice alerts, SMS and phone calls. The service, …
The high court will rule on Thursday on whether farmers and landowners can legally cull thousands of badgers to tackle tuberculosis in cattle. The Badger Trust says government proposals for two pilot culls are "very, very controversial" and should be stopped. The trust is asking Mr Justice Ouseley to quash …
The Centre is set to include Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type B) vaccine in its routine immunisation programme in six States from October this year even as it awaits expression of interest from Odisha on the front.The vaccine would be launched in pentavalent form combining vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP) …
In further evidence that confirms India’s fear of importing polio virus from neighbouring countries, a recent study has revealed that a major chunk of children below three years in Pakistan and Afghanistan are not receiving the oral polio vaccine. According to the study published in Lancet, experts found a sharp …
Viral hepatitis constitutes an enormous health burden, and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally. The magnitude of the problem can be highlighted by the fact that 1 in 12 people globally are living with chronic infections of either hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV). …
