MDG6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
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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]
Iodized salt can prevent mental disorders: Experts
Mar 07, 2013 11:00 AM
Dr Gulzarul Aziz, Associate Professor of Bangladesh Agricultural University, said that production, distribution, marketing and selling of non- iodized salt must be prohibited strictly.
[Bangladesh Agricultural University]
[Bangladesh]
[Health]
[South Asia]
Freedom is the greatest gift people can have: Rajapaksa
Feb 14, 2013 01:45 PM
People do not see the good things done by the government and are in the habit of pointing out shortcomings, said Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan President.
[Sri Lankan government]
[Sri Lanka President]
[Health]
[Sri Lanka]
[South Asia]
India launches child health screening service
Feb 06, 2013 02:00 PM
The child health screening service is an initiative of the National Rural Health Mission of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
[South Asia]
[Health]
[India]
[Children]
India to initiate comprehensive medical check-ups for kids
Feb 02, 2013 04:50 PM
Steps are also being taken to create networks of basic and advanced ambulances for covering the remote areas, said Ghulam Nabi Azad, India’s Health Minister.
[Children]
[South Asia]
[India]
[Health]
From Paramedics to Allied Health Sciences: landscaping the journey and way forward
Dec 21, 2012 02:50 PM
In view of gaping shortages of doctors, allied healthcare professionals would have to play an increasingly prominent role in providing health services to India’s masses, says a report released by the Public Health Foundation of India today. Here is a brief overview of the report.
[Medical Council of India]
[NRHM]
[South Asia]
[Paramedics India]
[India health professionals]
Health services: Bureaucrats, doctors critique each other
Dec 21, 2012 02:30 PM
An event to release a report on the state of allied health science, the future for its practitioners and legislations covering the sector became a bureaucracy-bashing forum as health professionals took pot-shots at bureaucrats.
[India health professionals]
[India NRHM]
[South Asia]
[Medical Council of India]
India to see a dip in malaria cases by 2015: report
Dec 18, 2012 02:30 PM
The malaria burden is concentrated in 14 endemic countries, which account for an estimated 80% of malaria deaths, says a WHO report.
[Indian Malaria Deaths]
[WHO]
[Health MDGs]
[Health]
[South Asia]
[Millennium Development Goals]
[Nepal]
Senior Indian official, Aradhana Johri, speaks on World AIDS Day 2012
[India]
[World AIDS Day]
[Health]
[HIV/AIDS]
[South Asia]
The beginning of the end of AIDS? Not quite
Nov 30, 2012 02:11 PM
The world is not on track to meet ambitious targets to significantly reduce sexual transmission of HIV, says a new report.
[Health]
[AIDS]
[HIV]
New HIV infections in India drop by 57 per cent: UNAIDS
Nov 21, 2012 04:40 PM
While India and Nepal register significant drops in new HIV infections, the picture appears not as rosy in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, UNAIDS report says.
[India HIV infections]
[United Nations]
[UNAIDS]
[South Asia]
[Health]
India's HIV drug comes with health hazards
Jan 10, 2012 11:30 AM
Indian AIDS agency is reluctant to phase out cheap HIV/AIDS drug, stavudine, despite causing disfiguration and affecting the peripheral nervous system.
[Drugs]
[AIDS]
[India]
[South Asia]
A completely effective AIDS vaccine not possible, says scientist
Jan 06, 2012 12:37 PM
While a vaccine to completely cure AIDS may not be developed, new research into human immune system could help slow the onset of AIDS, says Nobel laureate scientist Rolf M Zinkernagel.
[AIDS]
[South Asia]
[India]
[Research]
HIV-study top scientific breakthrough of 2011
Dec 29, 2011 11:52 AM
An HIV study, HPTN 052 can prove to be a "game-changer" for its near-100% efficacy in reducing HIV transmission rates, says a scientific journal.
[Health]
Anti-discriminatory law for HIV/AIDS patients soon
Dec 02, 2011 06:31 PM
Indian government will soon pass the long pending law to prevent discrimination by conducting massive awareness generations programmes, said the health minster.
[AIDS]
[Law]
[India]
[South Asia]
NE India's makeshift fight against AIDS
Dec 01, 2011 10:55 AM
Access to treatment has reduced the number of people dying of HIV-AIDS worldwide, but in north-east India, a constant flow of drugs is spreading both disease and addiction.
[AIDS]
[South Asia]
[India]
India averts 3 million HIV infections
Nov 30, 2011 06:12 PM
A recently published report by World Bank found a significant decline in HIV prevalence among female sex workers and young women (15-24 years) seeking antenatal care in the high-prevalence southern states.
[AIDS]
[India]
[South Asia]
