Full Coverage: Disease

29.09.2006 more than six billion people in the world today, over one billion have no access to improved drinking water -- a basic necessity for human life -- and about 2.6 billion people do not have access to improved sanitation.

28.09.2006 While the fall in the total fertility rate for the five Indian
states for which NFHS-3 results have been released is to be
welcomed, one cannot draw any general conclusion until the data for the BIMARU states comes in. The data on anaemia prevalence among women and children, however, is disturbing says Ashish Bose.

27.09.2006 The International Labour Office (ILO) is to host an interagency meeting here which will provide an opportunity to examine critical occupational safety and health, employment and livelihood issues in the context of a recent UN Action Plan with regard to the potential spread of the avian flu virus.

18.09.2006 The World Health Organisation and Unicef warn that, having met with spectacular success in 2005, India’s polio vaccination effort is in danger of falling victim to complacency

15.09.2006 LIMA, Peru, Sep 14 (OneWorld) - Diseases in Latin American prisons are so abundant that they are leaking out and threatening the health of the general population, said a host of international health experts and government officials meeting in Lima this week.

15.09.2006 As the 21st century began, more women were dying during childbirth in Nepal than in almost any other country and it was estimated that half of maternal deaths in hospitals were caused by unsafe abortions.

13.09.2006 Dengue has raised its head once again and medical authorities warned the public of another possible epidemic. The Epidemiological Unit (EU) of the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) has declared a National Dengue Control Week from September 18-23 to avert any major outbreak

12.09.2006 India was meant to be polio free by 2005. Instead it is facing a sharp upsurge in polio cases, worrying global leaders.