WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Public-private partnership to make healthcare is an initiative to reach out to the unreached, accessible, accountable and affordable for vulnerable sections of society Private Public Partnership (PPP) is not a very recent concept but of late it has gained momentum throughout the world. Initially, it was limited to the finance …
Even as India prepares to introduce an indigenous swine flu vaccine in the market, experts have pointed out that the necessary precautions for protection from the H1N1 virus need to be taken even after getting the flu shot, as the vaccine takes two weeks to develop immunity against the virus. …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: It was in February 2006 when a little town Uchhal in Surat district recorded two cases of avain flu, more popularly called the H5N1 virus, along with a couple of cases in its neighbouring town of Navapur in Maharashtra. The World Health Organisation (WHO) brought …
Being underweight in childhood, high blood pressure, unsafe sex, alcohol use and lack of clean water and sanitation have been cited as being responsible for a quarter of the 60 million deaths estimated to occur annually. According to a new World Health Organisation report, addressing these factors could increase life …
The energy poverty that typifies rural areas of developing countries in Africa is staggering in its proportions. These areas have become trapped in subsistence-level economies characterised by inefficient use of
Composite Correction Programme (CCP) is a water treatment plant optimization program that improves water treatment operation with limited capital investment by optimizing particle removal from water treatment plants. It has been reported that many microbial pathogens, particularly Cryptosporidium, are recalcitrant to disinfection due to their resistance to chlorine or escapes …
The quality of drinking water is a vital element of public health and well beings. Contaminated water is one of the causes of diarrhea diseases, which kill about 2.4 million persons globally; each year. Access to safe drinking water is essential to maintain a good health, and is a basic …
This is a WHO monograph on selected medicinal plants describing their quality control and use. It contains two parts: the first provides pharmacopoeial summaries for quality assurance purposes; and the second describes the clinical applications of the plant material. The WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants aim to provide scientific …
WHO has introduced Water Safety Plan (WSP) in the 3rd Edition of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality to provide a systematic approach for improving and maintaining drinking water safety. This workbook is intended to be used for training within the Region emphasizing a systematic and preventive risk-based approach …
New Delhi: The hype surrounding ban on smoking at public places seems to have vanished into thin air. A recent survey shows that the ban has not been effectively implemented since it came into effect in October last year. The survey conducted by Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) found …
Oct. 25: Oral cholera vaccine has been found to be safe in India and is likely to be introduced for inoculation in cholera endemic areas in the country including Hyderabad. Though oral cholera vaccine consisting of killed whole cells has been present in the market for many years, it is …
Teena Thacker About 1.5 million children under five die of diarrhoea every year. While the highest number of deaths occur in Africa, of the total 38 per cent deaths that took place in South Asia in 2004, India accounted for the highest number of deaths. This has been revealed by …
The World Health Organization is launching the first global war against alcohol abuse. Can it replicate the success of the anti-smoking campaign? Some of the ways to curb excessive alcohol consumption are similar to those used against cigarettes, such as increasing taxes and reducing availability. (Editorial)
Humanity's relationship with alcohol has never been easy. Now it is about to undergo as great a change as our attitude to tobacco, which has seen smoking plummet from the height of cool to the lowest of unpleasant habits. That at least is the hope of the World Health Organization, …
Oct. 14: In the wake of a warning sounded by the World Health Organ-isation (WHO) about a second outbreak of swine flu, the district administration has prepared a detailed ground-level action plan to tackle virus. The action plan involves creating an awareness among the people by giving them tips to …
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK) recently cut a deal with the Brazilian government, which allows it to supply a 10-valent vaccine against childhood pneumonia and other life-threatening infections for a decade at a fixed price in a reflection of the growing importance of vaccines and emerging markets to Big Pharma. The contract, …
AREPORT by a UNICEF team providing new estimates of child mortality stressed the need to refocus on pneumonia and diarrhoea as two of the three most important causes of underfive mortality but failed to recognise promotion of exclusive breastfeeding or nutrition as part of the solutions, says an expert. Instead …
