Full Coverage: Disease

31.01.2006 The leprosy eradication mission, which started at Independence reached a milestone with transmission of the disease reaching negligible levels. For the first time in 50 years, less than one in 10,000 persons contracted the disease last year

27.01.2006 Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, UK Chancellor Gordon Brown and Bill Gates today called on world leaders to rally behind a new action plan to treat 50 million people and prevent 14 million tuberculosis deaths worldwide over the next decade.

26.01.2006 Two in ten 16-year olds in Serbia tried some type of narcotic, almost all of them have tried alcohol, and three in ten are active smokers, show the results of the survey conducted in Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sad in October 2005. The survey was implemented under the Drug-Abuse Prevention in Serbia project.

17.01.2006 While HIV/AIDS and malaria get the most attention, Sub-Saharan Africans are suffering the devastating affects of five so-called "diseases of poverty," even though affordable means of prevention are available. In fact, a collaborative study has designed an integrated program that could treat all five diseases at once for $0.92 per person.

12.01.2006 Climate change could push entire species to the brink of extinction by changing the way disease is spread, suggests new research.

12.01.2006 The United Nations has sought funding of more than one billion euros for a global campaign to fight the avian influenza even as the infection killed two people in China. Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Turkey's response to the infection is satisfying.

10.01.2006 Over 75 per cent of the 95 lakh annual deaths in India occur at home, and a majority of these do not have a certified cause. Recognising the need for better data, the government has undertaken the world's largest study to track the causes of death in the country.