MDG6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
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UN urges ‘fast-track’ approach to end AIDS epidemic
Dec 01, 2014 05:47 PM The report, Fast-Track: ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, outlines a set of targets that would need to be reached by 2020.
UN hails landmark global polio eradication campaign
Oct 27, 2014 05:38 PM The annual number of polio cases has fallen from 350,000 in 1988, to 416 in 2013, and 243 so far this year – an extraordinary drop of more than 99 percent.
India launches new strategy for 'Kala Azar' eradication
Sep 03, 2014 11:15 AM
The new strategy involves carrying out active searches for people with symptoms of the disease in the 54 affected districts of the four states
[Healthcare]
[India]
[South Asia]
[Health sector]
UN launches global campaign to end open defecation
May 29, 2014 04:07 PM
The UN has decided to address the issue of open defecation by launching a campaign to put an end to the practice, focusing primarily on countries like India and Bangladesh.
[Open defecation]
[Health]
[South Asia]
Tobacco is a main cause of cancer in India, says WLF
Feb 11, 2014 11:45 AM
According to World Lung Foundation, more than one million Indians die prematurely from tobacco related disease each year.
[South Asia]
[Cancer]
[India]
Indian govt launches new campaign against smoking
Jan 22, 2014 06:10 PM
The new campaign called 'Artery' by the Indian government shows graphic harm caused due to Cigarettes and Bidi smoking.
[Health MDGs]
[Health]
[Indian Government]
[South Asia]
Fighting AIDS: A long way to ‘Zero’
[AIDS]
[Health MDGs]
[India]
[Health]
[South Asia]
Pakistan’s Swat Valley hit by dengue
Oct 15, 2013 10:00 AM
Health officials say nearly 8,000 people have tested positive for the virus and that the death toll could be much higher than 22 in Pakhtunkhwa Province.
[Dengue Deaths]
[South Asia]
[Healthcare]
[Pakistan]
Be ready for a backlash: WHO tells anti-tobacco fighters
Sep 11, 2013 06:52 PM
As India gears for an ‘endgame for tobacco’, WHO boss, Dr Margaret Chan, today spoke to rid the world of the one product it doesn’t need.
[Health]
[India]
[Health MDGs]
[World Health Organisation]
[South Asia]
New initiatives worth 500-cr for healthcare in India's Assam
Sep 02, 2013 09:00 AM
The government also rolled a dedicated Mother and child tracking telephone based system in the north-eastern state of Assam in India.
[Healthcare]
[Assam]
[South Asia]
[India]
Facing HIV challenge through early intervention
Sep 01, 2013 08:00 AM
A new study highlights the benefits of a holistic counseling based approach in preventing women’s sexual health problems.
[Health MDGs]
[Healthcare]
[Women's Rights]
[South Asia]
[Health]
[Women]
[India]
New partnerships to promote sexual rights in South Asia
Aug 22, 2013 04:35 PM
Forty Parliamentarians from nine countries in South Asia supported the need to highlight sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
[Gender]
[Gender Equality]
[India]
[South Asia]
[Rights]
India launches scheme to provide iron tablets to 13 cr girls
Jul 18, 2013 03:20 PM
Iron Deficiency Anaemia is one of the most widespread nutritional deficiency disorder in India, which affects around 58 per cent of the pregnant women.
[Healthcare]
[South Asia]
[Health]
[Girls]
[Health MDGs]
[Indian Girls]
[India]
Stem-cell transplants wipe out HIV, say scientists
Jul 04, 2013 12:14 PM
Researchers have reported the case of Two HIV positive men who now show no signs of the HIV virus following Stem-Cell Transplants
[Science]
[HIV/AIDS]
[South Asia]
[Health MDGs]
[Health]
MDG report 2013: UN calls on nations to step up efforts
Jul 04, 2013 09:30 AM
Countries across the world have already made great strides on health targets, and are within close reach of achieving them by 2015.
[Millennium Development Goals]
[Health]
[Health MDGs]
Indian cinema needs a discerning audience: Farooq Sheikh
[Medecins Sans Frontieres]
[South Asia]
[Health]
[Bollywood]
[Cinema]
[Farooq Sheikh]
[India]
[Healthcare]
Reaching out to neglected spots of Indian healthcare
Jul 02, 2013 07:05 PM Doctors without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), today launched a campaign to engage Indian people with pressing health issues in the country.
Huge number of people with HIV accessing treatment: UN
Jul 01, 2013 03:36 PM
By making smart choices, UNAIDS estimates that treatment can be further expanded within the existing resource needs of between $22-24 billion for 2015.
[UNAIDS]
[Health]
[Health MDGs]
World No Tobacco Day being observed today
May 31, 2013 06:20 PM
According to a WHO report, 83 countries have introduced a comprehensive ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship.
[Health MDGs]
[Health]
Canada urges Pakistan for protection of polio workers
May 24, 2013 12:02 PM
Pakistan is one of just three countries, including Afghanistan and Nigeria, where polio remains endemic.
[South Asia]
[Pakistan Polio]
