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 …
some of India's critical public health schemes have a long track record of corruption. The World Bank has a long record of hiring expensive consultants to tell us so. In this cynical theatre arrives another review by the bank of health programmes funded by its loans. It tells us how …
UK to cull badgers to check TB The UK government is planning to cull badgers, the carriers of bovine tuberculosis (TB). Bovine TB is on the rise in the UK, causing 20,000 cattle to be slaughtered every year. But a 10-year old study of the government's independent scientific group, after …
Despite widespread concerns, the New Zealand government has again okayed aerial spraying of poison 1080 (sodium monofluoroacetate). The country uses about 80 per cent of the world's production of poison 1080. With around 70 million possums munching trees and spreading bovine tuberculosis, the country has no option but to continue …
A subsidiary of the central ministry of coal in Assam is steadily refusing to compensate for crop damages wrought by its open-cast mining. This is after the Gauhati High Court told the company to pay compensation of more than Rs 4 crore in its January 2007 order. The North Eastern …
the World Health Organization (who) along with its Stop tb partnership programme, announced on June 22 guidelines to curb two forms of tuberculosis: multidrug resistant tuberculosis (mdr-tb) and the more harmful extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (xdr-tb). The move comes on the heels of increased concerns about spread of xdr-tb, which …
declining fertility: Low levels of fertility among Sri Lankan women will lead to a decline in the country's population after 2040, says a study by the Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka. The country's population is 20 million now. It will reach 20.1 million by 2011 and could attain its …
Tobacco smoking, passive smoking, and indoor air pollution from biomass fuels have been implicated as risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) infection, disease, and death. Tobacco smoking and indoor air pollution are persistent or growing exposures in regions where TB poses a major health risk. The researchers undertook a systematic review …
• Tonnes of deadly toxic waste, which killed 10 people and made thousands ill in Ivory Coast were recently shipped out of the country in sealed containers, bound for a treatment plant in France. • who, in its recent report, has noted that many deaths caused by TB in developing …
The South African government has put its health officials on high alert after an outbreak of xdr tb (extremely drug resistant tuberculosis). According to a who report, the disease is virtually untreatable with currently available drugs. In a recent case, doctors at a Johannesburg hospital had to seek a court …
scientists at the Imperial College, London, are close to finalising a simple blood test for tuberculosis (tb), which will be useful, especially in detecting the disease in children. The test involves looking for certain proteins, or markers, in the blood that are present only if the patient has tb. The …
the problem of resurgence of tuberculosis (tb) might be blamed on the failure of its vaccine, for researchers have found that there is more than one strain of tuberculosis bacterium prevalent in different parts of the world. " Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tb is so genetically distinct in …
it is known that people with dark skin are more susceptible to tuberculosis. A recent study has found why this is so. Carried out by researchers from the us and Germany, the study shows that low levels of vitamin d in people with dark skins is the likely reason. The …
in a discovery that might help save millions of lives, scientists from the National Institute of Immunology, Delhi, have located five key genes that enable Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the tuberculosis germ, to soak up iron from its environment and thrive. The research team, led by Rajesh S Gokhale, said some of …
The tuberculosis (TB) germ is far older than believed, predating diseases such as the plague. TB was thought to be a few tens of thousands years old. But a molecular analysis by scientists at the Paris-based Institut Pasteur shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis is about 3 million years old. M tuberculosis and …
uk study raises doubts about the new generation vaccines being developed against tuberculosis (tb), a major killer in the developing world. Most of the research on tb vaccines is being done in Europe and the us where the immune response of the people is different from those living in the …
Madhab Baru is a worried man. His livestock keep falling ill these days. The cows pass black dung and the goats, especially the kids, suffer from diarrhoea. It's the black dust from the factory across the road, says the small time farmer of Harirampur, a remote village in West Bengal's …
S A Azad, coordinator of People's Rights and Social Research Centre (prasar) came to Lal Kuan village in the outskirts of Delhi in 1999 with a specific task in mind: making the villagers literate. In due course, he noticed a pattern: despite getting repeatedly treated for tuberculosis, villagers would die. …
