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. …
OPERATION Smallpox Zero was launched in India in 1975. Around this time, a WHO official has been quoted saying he would “eat a tyre off a jeep” if smallpox was eradicated in India. D A Henderson, the programme’s director, is said to have sent him a jeep tyre. Smallpox was …
Lucknow: The Centre-state spat over the quality of Japanese encephalitis vaccine may cost 3.7 crore eastern UP kids dear. On Monday, UP government called off the vaccination drive at the eleventh hour after the state health machinery developed cold feet over dubious quality of vaccine vial sent by the Centre. …
New Delhi: The government has failed to effectively implement its immunization programmes targeted at reducing child mortality. Of the 113 deaths due to diphtheria
KOLKATA, 3 JUNE: The state health department has failed to keep an eye on the unregistered NGOs, that are not only organising health camps in various districts, but are also administering wrong vaccines to children. The reason behind this is the fact that those who have been made in-charge of …
End Of Vaccination Took Away Protection From HIV, Say Researchers Washington: The end of smallpox vaccination in the mid-20th century could be responsible for a loss of protection that led to the rapid spread of HIV, according to researchers. It is known that vaccinia immunization, as given to prevent the …
Lavishes Praise On State For Dramatically Raising Immunisation Rate From 11% To 60% New Delhi: He gave away over $28.8 billion of his personal wealth to philanthropy in order to fight neglected diseases and reduce extreme poverty. But did the software czar and one of the world
Initiating the free swine flu vaccination in the State on Wednesday, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that the government was considering to roll out other vaccination programmes on cervic cancer, pneumonia and prostate cancer in the near future. The swine flu vaccination programme which was launched in the Gauhati …
After a major polio outbreak in 2006, it is for the first time that India has been able to stop the spread of polio virus for over seven weeks with not a single wild polio virus (WPV) case being reported from any part of the country till this Friday. The …
Recent report on the status of food and welfare schemes that are being monitored by the Supreme Court of India under the Right to Food case (no. 196 of 2001). It shows what is missing, what is moving & what has to be done and where in various state welfare …
About two years ago, the Union health ministry suspended the licences of three state-owned vaccine-making facilities saying they were not complying with the who’s good manufacturing practices (gmp). The vaccine units have now been asked to resume work and get gmp compliance later. A February 26 directive of the ministry …
India has continued to report cases of wild poliovirus and acute flaccid paralysis throughout the 2000s. Indeed, in 2009 the numbers of both exceeded the totals for 2008, by 26% and 9.5%, respectively. Confirmed wild poliovirus cases are increasingly concentrated amongst Muslim children and localised in western Uttar Pradesh and …
This report provides critical insights on the existing challenges to ensure children across the developing world get timely, affordable and appropriate access to vaccines, while ensuring that the unmet needs of poor children are met by the public and private sector in the coming years. Vaccines have contributed to some …
Polio case in slum had govt in a tizzy Alarmed by the detection of poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio virus, in an infant here last week, the emergency three-day special pulse polio campaign launched in five districts of the Jammu division ended this afternoon. Over four lakh children in the …
New Rotary International president Kalyan Banerjee is the third Indian to occupy the chair A Tie-Up between the government and credible service organisations is the best way to get projects executed. These views were expressed by Kalyan Banerjee, who has been named president of Rotary International for 2011-12. Banerjee would …
