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 …
DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand health department has sounded an alert after recording four swine flu deaths in the last eight days. According to the health department, since January this year 21 cases were reported from the state, of which 17 were positive. All four —one from Tehri, one from Pauri and …
Rabat – A report by WHO and UNICEF shows that 2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home and 4.5 billion lack safely managed sanitation. While billions of people have gained access to drinking water and sanitation services in the last twenty years, WHO’s report shows that safe water …
‘Inadequate’ on parameters that reviewed policies and practices The latest global report on tuberculosis has criticised India’s control plans, even as the Union Health Minister JP Nadda has said that TB will be eliminated from the country by 2025. The Out of Step 2017 report published by Stop TB Partnership …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea, a sexually-transmitted disease, "much harder and sometimes impossible" to treat, as it cited data from 77 countries including India. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea, a sexually-transmitted disease, “much harder and sometimes …
AHMEDABAD - A plan to combat extreme heat in India's Ahmedabad city has been so effective in raising awareness and bringing down fatalities that city officials are rolling out a similar programme to fight another environmental risk: air pollution. Ahmedabad, in the western state of Gujarat, has among the worst …
Diagnosis is complicated due to challenges associated with sample collection While detection of tuberculosis (TB) in children remains a challenge, it has now emerged that Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB is higher among children than expected. This has been described as a “worrying trend” by the Union Health Ministry. As many …
DEHRADUN: Nine-year-old Ridhima Pandey from Haridwar who moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) alleging inaction by the Centre to tackle the adverse impact of climate change has been invited to participate in a conference on climate change in Paris on November 3. After the plea to the green tribunal was …
HYDERABAD: Though two cases of swine flu in Hyderabad have already tested positive for the mutated Michigan strain of the virus, the state health authorities do not have a single vial of the new vaccine required to fight the mutated virus.This despite the World Health Organisation (WHO) advising countries earlier …
positive for the mutated Michigan strain of the virus, the state health authorities do not have a single vial of the new vaccine required to fight the mutated virus. This despite the World Health Organisation (WHO) advising countries earlier this year to stock up on the new vaccine strain (A/Michigan/45/2015) …
Ghana will host over 800 delegates from Africa and the diaspora to deliberate and find ways of fighting Tuberculosis (TB) on the continent. The 20th conference to be held at the Accra International Conference Centre is slated to begin from July 10-13. The theme for the event is: “Accelerating Implementation …
PATNA: Blame it on urban lifestyle, intake of junk food and lack of physical activities, obesity in children is increasing with each passing day. Quoting a report of the World Health Organisation (WHO), experts said childhood obesity is one of the most serious health challenges facing the world today. According …
AIIMS officials confirmed that at least 100 samples have been tested between December and June and that “no sample has been tested positive so far”. As the zika virus threat looms over the national capital, the All India Institute Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has tested at least 100 samples of patients …
Providing African pupils with antimalarial drugs, insecticide-treated bed nets and education about preventing the mosquito-borne disease may also protect them against anaemia and boost their performance at school, researchers said on Wednesday. Children in Mali who benefited from these three measures from their teachers were 95 percent less likely to …
NAIROBI - Kenya is set to be the first African country to introduce better HIV treatment for people living with the disease that causes AIDS. In partnership with the Kenyan government, UNITAID and the World Health Organization have introduced a generic first-line drug for people living with HIV. Speaking at …
MWINILUNGA district has recorded reduced malnutrition levels from 4.2 percent to 1.7 percent since 2015 to date. Mwinilunga district commissioner Daniel Butali attributed the reduction to various interventions Government and various stakeholders are putting in place. Mr Butali was speaking when officials from the Food and Nutrition Commission of Zambia …
National Institute of Virology to receive Sun Pharma's drug molecules for testing against 3 diseases Sun Pharma and the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV), an institution of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), have signed an agreement for testing phytopharmaceutical, biologic and chemical entities developed by Sun Pharma …
Yaounde — Every year, 11 million Africans fall into poverty due to high out-of-pocket payments for healthcare, technology could change that Integrating technology into Africa's healthcare systems is key to opening them up faster to the poorest and most vulnerable people, the World Health Organization's Africa director said. Using more …
A major cholera outbreak in Yemen may have reached the halfway mark at 218,798 cases as a massive emergency response has begun to curb its spread two months into the epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Two years into a devastating civil war between a Saudi-led coalition …
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala worst hit by the flu tragedy. Air borne transmission makes it tough for prevention measures to work. H1N1 flu is also known as swine flu. It's called swine flu because a few decades ago, the people who caught the H1N1 flu had direct contact …
The report, which indicated that over 14,518 have been affected, said there has been a decline in the outbreak.The EOC was established by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) and some partner organisations. •NCDC says ‘outbreak is over, response to epidemic stepped …
