Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
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 …
The World Malaria Report 2016 summarizes information received from malaria-endemic countries and other sources, and updates the analyses presented in the 2015 report. The World Malaria Report is WHO’s flagship malaria publication, released each year in December. It assesses global and regional malaria trends, highlights progress towards global targets, and …
The transmission of the arboviral agents of dengue, yellow fever, Chikungunya, and Zika by Aedes mosquitoes represents expanding threats to global health. At the 69th World Health Assembly, the WHO Director-General Margaret Chan declared that the spread of the Zika virus was "the result of the abandon of mosquito control" …
Insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) are effective in preventing malaria where vectors primarily bite indoors and late at night, but their effectiveness is uncertain where vectors bite outdoors and earlier in the evening. We studied the effectiveness of ITNs following a mass distribution in Haiti from May to September, 2012, where the …
In this prospective observational study, Grant Dorsey and colleagues measure changes in malaria burden after long-lasting insecticidal net distribution and indoor residual spraying at three sites of in Uganda. Original Source
Two South American metropolises are enlisting bacterium-infected mosquitoes to fight Zika. The effort is the world’s biggest test yet of an unconventional but promising approach to quell mosquito-borne diseases. Original Source
Evolution persistently undermines vector control programs through insecticide resistance. Here we propose a novel strategy which instead exploits evolution to generate and sustain new control tools. Effective spatial repellents are needed to keep vectors out of houses. Our approach generates such new repellents by combining a high-toxicity insecticide with a …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Mahendra Pandey Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 19/10/2016 regarding mosquito breeding in the city of Delhi. National Green Tribunal came down heavily on officers including of higher status from the Government, Corporation and other authorities and said that …
Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding vector-borne diseases in Delhi, 06/10/2016. This matter has been taken up on the basis of the news report titled “Outrage as parents end life after child's dengue death” published in the Sunday Times of India dated 13th September, 2015. Chief Justice of …
Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding vector borne diseases in Delhi dated 04/10/2016. Supreme Court directs a meeting to be convened by the Lieutenant Governor to resolve issues relating to the better management of the problems faced by the people of Delhi due to dengue and chikungunya – …
Order of the High Court of Delhi in the matter of Shahid Ali Vs Government of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 20/09/2016 regarding the outbreak of dengue and chikungunya in Delhi. The High Court of Delhi in its Order directs the Government of India as well as Government of …
All 47 African member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted a new framework on how to deal with malaria on the continent, which still accounts for more than 90 percent of global malaria deaths in 2015, a UN spokesman told reporters here Monday. "They agreed on specific interventions …
Although India had some successes in controlling malaria from the time of independence, it still faces a substantial socio-economic burden from this disease. This paper presents a case study of a highly endemic primary health centre with an annual parasite incidence of 30.9 in the tribal regions of Andhra Pradesh. …
Health officials in Rwanda have raised a red flag over the upsurge in malaria cases which they say has been on the increase over the past months. According to data from Rwanda’s health ministry, the East African nation registered about two million malaria cases last year compared to 514,000 cases …
Outapi — Namibia has made tremendous progress in reducing malaria cases by 98 percent and deaths by 95 percent between 2001 and 2015. The country has thus met the Abuja Target and Millennium Development Goal 6 of reducing malaria mortality and morbidly by 60 percent. Deputy Minister of Health and …
This WHO report released on World Malaria Day, 2016 shows that, although an ambitious goal, eliminating malaria from 35 countries by 2030 is achievable. Malaria mortality rates have declined by 60% globally since the year 2000, but reaching the next level – elimination – will not be easy. WHO has …
In the past several years, as worldwide morbidity and mortality due to malaria have continued to decrease, the global malaria community has grown increasingly supportive of the idea of malaria eradication. In 2015, three noteworthy global documents were released—the WHO's Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030, the Roll Back Malaria …
Chikungunya and dengue infections are spatio-temporally related. The current review aims to determine the geographic limits of chikungunya, dengue and the principal mosquito vectors for both viruses and to synthesise current epidemiological understanding of their co-distribution. Three biomedical databases (PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science) were searched from their inception …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Kalindi Residents Welfare Association (KRWA) Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 12/02/2016 regarding mosquito breeding in Delhi. The joint inspection report dated 14th January, 2016 submitted before the Tribunal has requested NGT to direct the "SDMC to do ani-mosquito …
This framework is an attempt to eliminate malaria from the country and contribute to improved health and quality of live and alleviation of poverty. It is in line with WHO Global Technical Strategy (GTS) for Malaria 2016-2030 and Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA) Malaria Elimination Roadmap for the Asia …
