MDG6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
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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]
World Bank approves $255 mn for AIDS project in India
May 06, 2013 02:34 PM
The World Bank has approved the fourth of a series of credits aimed at supporting India’s AIDS control program which seeks to curb the spread of HIV by 2017. The $255 million credit to the National AIDS Control Support Project will help accelerate AIDS prevention programs by targeting vulnerable groups at high risk of infection.
[India]
[World Bank]
[South Asia]
[AIDS]
Alcohol consumption in India: Health experts for tax reforms
Apr 23, 2013 04:00 PM Experts gathered in New Delhi discussed the negative impacts on general well-being and health from consumption of alcohol.
Processed food business is more dangerous than tobacco industry: expert
[Food]
[Breastfeeding India]
[India]
[Health and Nutrition]
[South Asia]
Over 14,500 HIV deaths in Maharashtra
Mar 13, 2013 06:00 PM
A statement by the Health Minister of Maharashtra, India’s second largest state, speaks of the people affected by HIV, while not really mentioning those infected by the virus that causes AIDS and is continuing the spread across the state.
[India]
[HIV/AIDS]
[Health]
[Health MDGs]
[South Asia]
