Malaria cases and deaths steadily decreasing since 2013 The Health Department has called for the early diagnosis and prompt and complete treatment of malaria and sustained vector control measures to help Kerala achieve the target of eliminating malaria by 2020. Kerala had been the first State in the country to …
Labourers From NE Could Be Carriers Of Leishmaniasis Thiruvananthapuram: After a study on domestic migrant labourers revealed that a growing number among them might be carriers of HIV virus, a new fear has emerged that they could be also carriers of Leishmaniasis, also known as Black Fever or Kala Azar, …
A modest yet consistent decline in the infant mortality rate, especially in six problematic states, is one of the key features of the latest data from the Sample Registration System. Nationwide, the IMR has dropped by three points from 47 infant deaths per 1,000 live births to 44, according to …
KOLKATA, 10 SEPT: Indian scientists have found a safe orally-administered drug against kala-azar, a disease that puts at risk an estimated 165.4 million people in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. Termed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) a "neglected disease,” kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis, the second-largest parasitic killer …
The Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) Elimination Initiative in the Indian subcontinent was launched in 2005 as a joint effort between the governments in the Region (India, Nepal and Bangladesh) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The objective is to reduce the annual VL incidence below 1/10,000 inhabitants by 2015 based on …
Drug resistance seems to have emerged as an endemic problem in India and the Union Health Ministry has written to the Planning Commission asking for a national programme to tackle anti-microbial resistance and cover the whole gamut of pathogens. If the Planning Commission decides to include it in the 12th …
New Delhi: The annual budget to combat tuberculosis (TB), the deadly air-borne disease, for 2012-13 will see about 80% increase over last fiscal. While the country’s annual health budget is set to increase by a meagre 13% this year, the Planning Commission has decided to raise allocation for the TB …
Sixteen SUVs which the Union Health ministry had provided for its vector-borne disease control programme — to be used for surveillance purposes — have become a bone of contention between the ministry and Bihar government after a Central inspection team on a recent visit to the state found that only …
Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a cutaneous complication appearing after treatment of visceral leishmaniasis, and PKDL patients are considered infectious to sand flies and may therefore play a role in the transmission of VL. We estimated the risk and risk factors of PKDL in patients with past VL treatment in …
In the Indian subcontinent, about 200 million people are at risk of developing visceral leishmaniasis (VL). In 2005, the governments of India, Nepal and Bangladesh started the first regional VL elimination program with the aim to reduce the annual incidence to less than 1 per 10,000 by 2015. A mathematical …
A four-year test of drugs to treat a widespread parasitic disease called kala azar was announced on Monday by the governments of India and Bangladesh, Doctors Without Borders, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative and other groups. Kala azar, also known as visceral leishmaniasis, is transmitted by the bite of …
The outbreak of kala-azar is taking an epidemic form as a good number of people have been attacked by the deadly disease in Chatmohor upazila of the district. Lack of awareness and indifference of the authorities concerned are blamed for the outbreak of the disease. A total of 25 people …
A spurt in the number of kala-azar cases in tribal-dominated Boyarizore and Sundar Paharia blocks in the district has prompted the Godda health department to push the panic button. The department conducted a 15-day special checking drive for kala-azar patients in the district from February 14 to 28 during which …
The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect the very poor, pose a major public health problem in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). Although more than a dozen NTDs affect the region, over the past five years four of them in particular
The Centre on Friday informed Parliament that the use of the DDT other than in eradication of diseases like malaria and kala azar, is completely banned in the country. Replying to supplementaries raised by BJP member Rajiv Pratap Rudy in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for chemicals and fertilisers, …
The incidence of kala azar, an infectious disease, in India is among the highest in the world and 2.5 million cases of kala azar are detected globally every year, said Professor V P Sharma, former director of Malaria Research Centre in Delhi and Additional Director General, ICMR, at National Institute …
