India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). Each year, WHO’s World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across …
By opening up its database of potential malaria drugs, GlaxoSmithKline has blazed a path that other pharmaceutical companies should follow. (Editorial)
The Indian Express Imagine a policy intervention that, at one stroke, could increase school completion by more than 10 per cent; add another half-percentage point to India
A severe El Nino in 1998 killed more than 2000 people and caused billions of dollars damage to crops and infrastructure in Australia and India. The 1998 El Nino severely affected the climatic conditions in India: causing heat waves which resulted in great loss of life.
RASHME SEHGAL The department of biotechnology is moving at a rapid pace to develop new vaccines to combat tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, rabies, leprosy, HIV AIDS and cancer. Dr M.K. Bhan, secretary, department of biotechnology, admitted that five vaccines, including those for cholera and malaria are in the advanced trial stage. …
Jamshedpur, Jan. 19: The first meeting of the district managing council at the collectorate today took a look at various development measures to be undertaken in East Singhbhum. Deputy commissioner of East Singhbhum R.K. Agarwal, Jamshedpur MP Arjun Munda, newly elected MLAs and officials of various government departments were present …
IN THE old days, the job of eradicating disease fell to governments and inter-governmental bodies. Then charities, often led by celebrities or entrepreneurs, joined in. Finally, in the Western world at least, governments accepted the need to pool their efforts with those of private donors, big and small. The effort …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has set itself an ambitious target of reducing the malaria prevalence rate to 4 per cent in the next five years. It also gave itself time till 2015 to eliminate filariasis from the State. At the State-level Task Force meeting, chaired by Health and Family Welfare …
Mumbai: Unhealthy living conditions claimed the lives of two kids of a family who died of malaria in Bhayander on Sunday morning. Their mother too is in the hospital with malaria symptoms. Roshan Das, 35, a daily wager, lives in the Lal Bahadur Shastri Nagar slums behind the Bhayander police …
MUMBAI: The BMC's war against mosquitoes notwithstanding, malaria has struck the city with a vengeance. BMC epidemiology cell head Dr Daksha Shah said malaria incidence is at least thrice more than that in last year. Figures suggest that this year, around 42,000 people were down with malaria, while the number …
Dabur, Godrej Sara Lee plans in place to grow naturals variants. The mosquito repellent cream category has become active this season with both Dabur and Godrej Sara Lee planning to grow the category based on the
Experts in a roundtable here Tuesday said the mortality from Malaria was reduced significantly this year compared to last year's death toll in the country. They said only 39 people died of malaria in 2009 while 154 people died in 2008, 228 in 2007, 307 in 2006, 502 in 2005 …
This latest World malaria report describes the global distribution of cases and deaths, how WHO-recommended control strategies have been adopted and implemented in endemic countries, sources of funding for malaria control, and recent evidence that prevention and treatment can alleviate the burden of disease. It contains individual country profiles for …
Shikaripara (Dumka), Dec. 4: The poll meetings of Nitish Kumar hold little meaning for the villagers of Shikaripara constituency. So do the rallies of Lalu Prasad. Rather, they are more concerned about a disease that has been stalking them
BHUBANESWAR: Malaria has claimed 717 lives in the State during the last three years. In a written reply to a question from Raghuram Padal (BJD), Minister for Health and Family Welfare Prasanna Acharya said in the Assembly today that 11,20,019 people were affected with the disease during the period. The …
This paper investigates household demand for health care and willingness to pay (WTP) for publicly provided health care services, based on primary survey data from rural West Bengal. Contingent valuation techniques were adopted to elicit WTP amounts for malaria and diarrhoea, the most prevalent severe morbidities in the study area.
This study sets out the importance of analysing a specific situation in order to develop a holistic strategy of interventions which will be appropriate to the vectors and the local conditions. The strategies proposed recognise the importance of community participation, health education, surveillance, improving public health systems, decentralization of malaria …
DEEPANKAR GANGULY An unusually warm phase in early-November and unseasonal rain have prompted the civic authorities to continue its malaria surveillance till the first week of December. The drive begins in the last week of May and usually continues till October-end. According to health officials, over 74,000 people are suffering …
Invitation To Dengue As 86 Cases & Three Deaths Reported In Gurgaon Gurgaon: The spread of dengue continues unabated in the Millennium City. With 86 cases and three deaths reported so far this season, more and more questions are being asked about the pathetic infrastructure and poor sanitation conditions behind …
SHILLONG: Meghalaya has recorded a high of 149 deaths from malaria cases till September this year .Majority of them are from Garo Hills. A senior government official said that the total number of deaths for this year might rise as all the figures were yet to collated. A large number …
