The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
President Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Sadako Ogata and Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates recently announced a strategic partnership to ensure continued progress in the fight against polio. As a first step of the formal partnership, Ogata and Gates announced an innovative financing agreement to …
Gangtok, Aug. 19: The Sikkim forest department today approved a Rs 2.95-crore plan for the overall development of villages surrounding the Kanchenjungha biosphere reserve to reduce the people’s dependency on forest resources. The state government will send the plan to the Union ministry of environment and forests with a plea …
The UN Children`s Fund, Unicef, warned on Tuesday that Pakistan stands in the way of global eradication of polio and could potentially be the last reservoir worldwide of the crippling disease. The agency says 63 cases have been detected so far this year compared to 36 during the same period …
In last 4 yrs, 1,725 persons have died in clinical trials; weak law compounds risks For the first time since 2010 when six tribal girls from Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh involved in the clinical trials of anti-cervical cancer HPV vaccine died, the government has admitted that 1,725 persons have lost …
High level ministerial meeting 4 August, 2011 - The year 2012 was declared as the year of intensification for routine immunisation in the South East Asia region by the world health organisation, following a high level ministerial meeting in New Delhi on August 2. Health ministers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri …
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory. The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by …
While Uttar Pradesh has not reported a single case of polio in the past 15 months, Malegaon in Maharashtra has emerged as the new area of concern in the fight against the crippling disease. Incidentally, like in UP some years back, the spurt in Maharashtra also seems to be linked …
Likewise other countries in world, the 64th "World Hepatitis Day" is being observed on Thursday, July 28, in Pakistan. One in every 12 people worldwide is now grappling with chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C, and it is now more widespread than even HIV or cancer. Non-availability of proper facilities …
Disease 30 Times More Prevalent Than HIV New Delhi: One in every 12 people suffers from chronic hepatitis B or C worldwide. According to health experts, the number of cases of the viral infection is on the rise in India due to unavailability of safe drinking water. With the World …
Central Audit Team Finds Same Amount Released, Same Utilisation In Many Dists Lucknow: If there are no polio cases in the state since April 2010, call it a divine intervention. The NRHM central audit team that visited UP in May, found glaring anomalies in the pulse polio drive in the …
Around one third of the global population, or 2 billion people, have been infected with the liver disease hepatitis which kills about a million victims annually, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. Although most of those carrying hepatitis do not know they have it, they can unknowingly transmit …
The health department has decided to propose a mass adult vaccination drive in Sivasagar district for everyone above 15 years to curb the spread of encephalitis. The move comes in view of rising number of encephalitis cases in the district. Vaccination below 15 years is already being done across the …
India has made remarkable progress in the fight against polio and is on track to eradicate it by the end of 2011, a group of international health experts has said.
The lives of half a million children in the Horn of Africa are at risk, international aid agencies said on Friday, as the worst drought in decades forces thousands of people to flee their homes each day. High food prices and the driest years since the early 1950s have pushed …
Some European countries are seriously considering placing travel restrictions on Pakistani citizens if their country failed to achieve the target of polio eradication by 2012, a deadline given by the World Health Organization, Dawn has learnt. Similarly, the World Bank has asked the Pakistan government to eradicate this virus by …
A 37-year-old woman from Chandivli and a three-year-old girl from Tardeo tested positive for swine flu on Tuesday. But, doctors are not worried yet. They say that the H1N1 virus has lost its virulent form and won
Jamshedpur, June 27: Lend a hand in conserving the greens of Jharkhand and the state will take care of your health in turn. Buoyed by the success of its pilot projects of holding medical camps in Gwalkata and Kudada villages of Potka block, officials of Dhalbhum forest division have now …
French drugs group Sanofi said that its vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne infection that kills thousands of people around the world each year, could be launched in about four years.
THE national vaccine policy draft, submitted in the Delhi High Court recently, strongly favours inclusion of new vaccines in the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP). The court had sought the draft from the Centre last year in a case against introduction of new vaccines. It will hear the case next on …
