For those living in darkness for decades, seeing even a faint ray of light is a cause for celebration.

Guwahati: Moved by the plight of children of AIDS victims, Governor of Assam, Janaki Ballav Patnaik, on Tuesday announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh to help Assam Network of Positive (ANP+) people, an NGO working for these children, according to a Raj Bhavan source.

The Governor along with first lady Jayanti Patnaik, on Tuesday met a delegation comprising of workers, children and officials of Assam Network of Positive People (ANP+) at the Raj Bhavan here.

12 units from India are eligible for supplying vaccines to international bodies

In a major boost to the country’s private vaccine manufacturing pharmaceutical companies, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that India’s national regulatory authority — Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) — and its affiliated institutions meet the prescribed international standards.

Scheme To Be Launched At All Medical Colleges And District Hospitals In The State From April 7

Jaipur: As instances of lifestyle diseases are on the rise, the state government is intensifying the fight to check its growing threat on the urban as well as the rural population. In one such effort, free test for diabetes will be launched in the state soon. The state government is already providing free diabetes medicines including Metformin capsules, Glimepiride tablets, and insulin under the chief minister free medicine scheme.

The programme was started at six centres in Tamil Nadu

The Chennai-based National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre) has started a pilot testing programme of providing for six months isoniazid TB drug as prophylactic to HIV-positive individuals. People recruited will include those on antiretroviral therapy (ART) too. The programme was started about two months ago at six centres in Tamil Nadu (including two ART centres in Chennai) and it got under way recently in Bangalore, New Delhi and Hyderabad. The ART centres were chosen by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).

PANJIM: The quarterly meeting of TB forum of the Voluntary Health Association of Goa on Monday identified five villages where steps would be taken to create awareness about tuberculosis and help villagers to move towards elimination of the disease.

The villages are Parra, Karapur-Sarvan, Pariyem-Sanquelim, Betki and Carambolim. Executive Director VHAG Dr Cynthia Pinto said these villages have been identified under Axshya project, which was implemented in Goa in 2011 to improve the reach, visibility and effectiveness of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) through civil society.

Five months after chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation met and promised to initiate more development activities in Uttar Pradesh, the gove

Shillong: Glaring anomalies in the functioning of department of health and family welfare has deprived thousands of people of West Garo Hills with basic health care benefits ,revealed the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).

Holding the department of health and family welfare responsible for the deprivation of basic health care in West Garo Hills, the CAG directly stated that patient care suffered due to shortage of Community Health Centres (CHCs) Public Health Centres (CHCS) and Sub centres (SCs) and inadequate infrastructure like non-functional operation theatres, lack of ultra sound,ECG and 24x 7 diagnostic services, besides the absence of medical specialist.

Pilot project under way in Haryana village comingunder Jindal’s constituency

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and IT major Hewlett Packard on Tuesday announced the development of a system that would provide affordable healthcare to the rural poor and simultaneously facilitate better medicines for various ailments. The system is based on a combination of the latest in IT, cloud computing, and standard shipping containers, which have become unusable for normal freight movement.

Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena will hand over the Five Year National Health Plan to President Mahinda Rajapaksa today which marks the second day of the National Health Week, a Health Ministry