This annual report of WHO’s work between July 2019 and June 2020, was finalized four months after the COVID-19 pandemic first arrived in the WHO African Region. Over the past year, WHO country offices, emergency hubs, inter country support teams and the Regional Office for Africa, with the support of …
JAIPUR: The percentage of fully immunized children in the age group 12-23 months has increased noticeably in the state, points out the recently released annual health survey (AHS) 2012-13. The percentage of fully immunized kids has increased to 74.2% from 69% in state. On the flip side, there are several …
Measles vaccination is estimated to have averted 13·8 million deaths between 2000 and 2012. Persisting heterogeneity in coverage is a major contributor to continued measles mortality, and a barrier to measles elimination and introduction of rubella-containing vaccine. Our objective is to identify determinants of inequities in coverage, and how vaccine …
Almost 80 per cent of the 796 children who died in the Bon Secours mother and baby home in Tuam did not live to see their first birthday. Figures provided by the General Register Office, via the Department of Social Protection, show measles, whooping cough and influenza were some of …
More adults in the city are being diagnosed with measles infection with the majority falling under the age-group of 20-30 years. “Those born before 1990 are more susceptible to the infection, which is often serious, since they have received just one dose of the vaccine,” warned doctors in the city. …
PANAJI: Goa is set to launch a 'measles surveillance' programme as part of a nation-wide drive to eliminate measles and Rubella by 2020. The programme was launched on Tuesday by health minister Laxmikant Parsekar through a two-day workshop in Panaji. The workshop has been organized by the government of Goa …
Two more children died of measles near Sujawal in Sindh on Thursday. The deceased were identified as five-year-old Samar and eight-month-old Mahnoor in Dor area of Sujawal. The Sindh High Court has taken suo moto notice of the measles deaths in Thatta and Sujawal , seeking reports from the health …
Measles in the U.S. surged to 288 cases this year, the highest number on record since the government declared it had eliminated outbreaks of the highly contagious virus in 2000 and the worst year since 1994. This year’s contagion is spread among 18 states and New York City, according to …
Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed on Thursday formed several committees to look into various health issues, particularly, the ‘brain-eating amoeba’ — naegleria fowleri — after the death of a man in Karachi, polio, which infected six children so far, the ongoing measles campaign and the dengue virus. The minister …
‘Four hundred cases have been reported from the city’. Four confirmed measles deaths in the past four months have stirred the State Health Department into action with health officials holding a meeting on Thursday to chalk out the way forward to prevent the spread of this highly contagious disease. While …
Alarmed with three cases of death reported over the last four months along with a spurt in measles cases, Delhi government has started an exercise to identify the high risk zones in the national capital to control the spread of the disease. Delhi's Department of Family Welfare has also sent …
Officials said a survey found out of 450 patients admitted for measles, many had taken vaccines as per schedule. Three weeks after the Delhi government started a survey in Delhi’s slum areas to map measles cases, to explain a jump in the number of cases this year, the National Centre …
The world’s biggest funder of vaccines for developing countries wants to raise $7.5 billion for inoculations to save as many as 6 million lives over five years. The GAVI Alliance has raised more than $12 billion since its founding in 2000 from governments, charities and companies to help immunize 440 …
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - Karachi—Sindh health department had as yet administered drops of anti-measles vaccine to 1076922 children of 29 districts of Sindh during day of extended campaign for the prevention of measles, which had recently affected a vast population of children in rural Sindh while many had been …
Sindh government has started anti-polio and measles drive in 29 districts of Sindh from Monday under the Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI) to make the children, between 6 months to 10 years of age, immunised against the fatal disease. The 12-day long special immunisation campaign is being launched in collaboration …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will launch a two-week campaign to vaccinate 9.6 million children against measles in the province. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Provincial Minister for Health Shahram Khan Tarakai said that the drive would be launched across the province on May 19. He said that during …
PUNE: Few doctors complying with the government diktat to report measles cases to local health officials may turn out to be a big hurdle as authorities step up surveillance with an aim to eradicate the disease. Having earned the polio-free tag earlier this year, the Union government has stepped up …
The Sindh health department is going to launch a comprehensive measles-specific vaccination campaign in collaboration with Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) at a cost of over Rs400 million from May 19 across Sindh to vaccinate and immunise children especially in rural areas. Health directorate officials told Dawn here …
Measles stalked and hunted down three more children as the government made a belated admission of children’s deaths from the infectious disease in Sujawal and Thatta districts and announced on Monday a 12-day campaign (May 19 to 31) in the entire province for vaccination against measles. With the latest casualties, …
Acute encephalitis in eastern States such as Odisha and Jharkhand is caused by viruses of dengue and measles too, a latest study has revealed. The study, which was recently published in the Epidemiology and Infection Journal, has showed that though herpes simplex virus (HSV) was a dominant agent for acute …
Ken Puzey can't forget the cries of a young Haitian girl at a medical clinic where he was volunteering last April. Puzey, 47, is an electrical engineer and founder of QuantaSpec in Burlington, Vt., which has conducted extensive research on federally funded projects to develop detection devices for IEDs and …
