A modelling group convened by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS has estimated that if efforts are not made to mitigate and overcome interruptions in health services and supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, a six-month disruption of antiretroviral therapy could lead to more than 500 000 extra deaths from AIDS-related …
Perhaps not since Egypt built the great pyramids of Giza, or more recently tamed the Nile with the Aswan High Dam, has the government embarked on as challenging a national project: wiping out smoking in public places. Anyone who has ever spent any time in a Cairo taxicab, restaurant, office, …
This study analyses the diverse positive and negative impacts that coal mining has on the livelihoods of local communities of the Ib valley coalfield in Orissa. Using the sustainable livelihoods framework, it shows that coal mining, which is a form of physical capital, contributes to the enhancement of financial capital. …
New Delhi: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced 76 grants for bold and innovative ideas to improve global health and three of them have been bagged by Indian researchers. Ranjan Nanda, K.V.S. Rao and Virander Chauhan of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Delhi have …
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), principal recipient of the global fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria in India, today announced the launch of
Medical experts on Tuesday stressed the need for patients to go through the full course of six-month treatment to stop tuberculosis from becoming a multiple-drug-resistant disease as far as they are concerned. The disease will continue to spread unless this is done by every patient. This was the advice of …
Affected Animals Have Been Shifted To A Panjrapol In Ahmedabad Prashant Rupera | TNN Vadodara/Anand/Ahmedabad: Sixty cows on Anand Agriculture University (AAU) campus have been diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB), causing concern in the milk capital
A 2009 WHO report has ranked India first in the total number of TB cases and also in cases that have developed multi-drug resistance (MDR) to the disease. The latest report puts the number of cases in India at a staggering two million and the total number of drug resistant …
A United Nations program that has raised $1.2 billion over the past three years for the treatment of H.I.V./AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis through a small fee added to airline tickets sold in 15 countries is going global. Starting in January, travelers in the United States and other countries buying airline …
When coordinated efforts are continuing throughout the world, especially in countries known for elephant-rearing, to fight the spread of tuberculosis among the pachyderms, owners of tamed elephants in Kerala are taking strong objection to reports on the disease. Veterinarians specialising in elephant diseases say that the elephant owners, mostly businessmen, …
A path-breaking diagnostic technology invented by a city hospital can help the country fight the relatively new multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis. The technology makes it possible to detect MDR tuberculosis in three to four days instead of the conventional three months. It also stops cross transmission. The PD Hinduja Hospital's …
CUTTACK: With the Accredited Intermediary Reference Lab (IRL) for diagnosing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) going operational at the SCB Medical College and Hospital here, Orissa is all set to initiate directly observed therapy short-course (DOTS) Plus programme to treat such cases. The first phase of identification of patients and establishing prevalence …
Around 17,000 Sri Lankans are affected by Tuberculosis annually while 11,000 new victims are identified. Of this 350 die of the disease, Director of National Program for Tuberculosis Control and Chest Disease Dr. A.L.S.B. Alwis said. Deputy Director General of Public Health Services of Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry Dr. P.G. …
Tuberculosis kills at least 64,000 people and also attacks as many as 300,000 every year across the country, health experts said here on Thursday. Senior officials of the Directorate of Health at their quarterly monitoring meeting here also said that three districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are at …
The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry is to introduce legislation to prevent discrimination against TB sufferers at work places and schools, Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva said. He said the ministry has information that employees and students had been sent out despite their getting treatment for the disease. Patients are not …
R. Prasad Several studies have shown that smoking is a risk factor for developing the tuberculosis disease (TB). But there was no large-scale study done on the general population to understand this association as most studies looked at high-risk individuals to understand how smoking makes a person develop the disease. …
We welcome your Editorial plea ('Orphan giant' Nature 459, 1034; 2009) for stronger advocacy for tackling tuberculosis (TB), a shared global strategy and increased commitment to research and innovation. The emerging threat of drug-resistant TB in Europe, highlighted in a recent report from the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC; …
Port Qasim Authority (PQA) and Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT) are all set to sign an implementation agreement to develop the 'pollution free' Coal, Cement and Clinker Terminal (CCCT) worth $175 million at Port Qasim. According to sources, PQA has issued the Letter of Intent (LoI) to PICT last Wednesday …
The present detection rate of Tuberculosis, a common infectious disease that kills nearly 70,000 people in the country every year, is 72 percent, 2 percent higher than the target set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for Bangladesh.
