More funds needed to fight AIDS
Donors will need to double their contributions to the Global Fund next year to fight AIDS, TB and malaria and to meet the anticipated increase of quality health programs offering effective responses
Donors will need to double their contributions to the Global Fund next year to fight AIDS, TB and malaria and to meet the anticipated increase of quality health programs offering effective responses
Dr Syed Karam Shah, manager National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Program (NTP), has underlined the need for resolving all bottlenecks in the process of DOTS implementation in Sindh (Pakistan).
Every year 80000 people are afflicted by tuberculosis in some form in Nepal, and 44000 TB patients are added to the list each year, states the data. The existing situation of tuberculosis as stated
Tuberculosis-induced mortality rate in local women appeared higher than all other causes and as such the situation requires an integrated approach to combat the ailment. Experts discussing 'TB and
The Punjab (Pakistan) government has acquired medicines worth Rs1 billion for distribution among TB patients in small districts of the province. Punjab health minister Dr Tahir Ali Javed made this
A World Health Organisation (WHO) report released in Paris says more than 4.5 million people in India are suffering from Tuberculosis, making it home to the highest number of TB cases reported in the
Even as pharma big-guns invest resources in addressing problems related to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB), the World Health Organisation (WHO) is of the view that a really grim picture is
Joint Secretary in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Deepak Gupta underlined the need for the effective implementation of TB control programme in Uttar Pradesh. The Joint Secretary was
After the failure of the National Tuberculosis Control Programme started in 1962, the Punjab government does not want to take any chances in the newly launched Revised National TB Control Programme
The government is roping in corporate resources to fight TB, the economic cost of the morbidity and mortality it causes being enormous. The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme would
Experts from WHO and other agencies have observed that the progress made by India in the anti-TB campaign under the DOTS strategy is the fastest in the world.' India revised national tuberculosis
<p>Nepal has achieved a new milestone in conservation by achieving ‘zero poaching’ of rhinos, tigers and elephants for the year period ending in February 2014, according to the World Wildlife Fund Nepal. Read more in this March 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Nepal.</p>
Siddhant Panigrahi, 3, has Non Hodgkin s lymphoma. This resident of Rajgangpur town, Orissa, was treated at AIIMS, New Delhi. His treatment, lasting for about eight months, gives an idea of the economic cost of cancer treatment
Mycobacteria make daunting subjects for study. In contrast to the more commonly used organism for molecular biological research, the E Coli, which produces a visible colony in about eight hours,
Historical ills Malaria It has been hypothesised that the malarial parasite evolved either with humans or even earlier. Hippocrates wrote about it in the 5th century BC. In India, Ayurvedic
Diseases that were cheerfully believed to have been eradicated are inexplicably cropping up again in India in deadlier, drug resistant forms
according to a report by the World Health Organization ( who ), "hot zones' for Tuberculosis ( tb ) are spreading worldwide, where the new drug-resistant strains could potentially lead
Genetic marker for authenticating Darjeeling tea
Although 16 cases of children being sold have been reported, the Orissa government refuses to even acknowledge the problem.
With one of the highest growth rate of AIDS cases in the world, India sees a boom in 'opportunistic infections' baffling doctors