Full Coverage: Health

29.09.2006

Youth Network

With support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Population Council researchers designed an operations research project to determine the feasibility of expanding male youthsÂ’ access to reproductive health information and condom services through their peers in Bangladesh.

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 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is working with the Home Ministry to repeal Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that outlaws homosexuality.

27.09.2006 As many as nine people have died due to Dengue in Delhi so far and the total number of cases reported has risen to 327.

27.09.2006 Findings of a study, conducted by Karunalaya, a voluntary organisation involved in an awareness programme along with the Chennai Corporation has revealed that about 80 per cent of families in north Chennai have, at least, one member affected by chikungunya.

27.09.2006 The United States Ambassador, David C. Mulford, and World Health Organisation (WHO) representative to India, Salim Habayeb, have signed an agreement for tuberculosis control in India.

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.

25.09.2006 Reacting to the Kerala High Court's decision to set aside the ban imposed on production and sale of Coca- Cola and Pepsi in the state of Kerala, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said that it was very unfortunate. "The government has still not notified the safety norms and without these, the drinks remain as unsafe as before," said Sunita Narain, director, CSE.

21.09.2006 Indian NGO Toxics Link has said that soft PVC toys are a threat to young children as these contain dangerous levels of lead and cadmium. The research was done on samples taken from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.

20.09.2006 Developing countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and job training for their record numbers of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years of age, could produce surging economic growth and sharply reduced poverty, according to a new World Development Report 2007 launched at the Bank's Annual Meetings in Singapore.

19.09.2006 Over 7 million Afghan children aged under five will be vaccinated against the polio virus during a three-day joint campaign launched by the Afghan health ministry and the United Nations ChildrenÂ’s Fund (UNICEF).

19.09.2006 Unsafe syringe use among drug addicts in Pakistan and a lack of awareness about the risks of HIV/AIDS makes them especially vulnerable to infection.According to official figures, there are around 500,000 drug addicts in Pakistan, of whom around 60,000 inject drugs.

19.09.2006 After several cases of Chikungunia were reported from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the disease has gripped several parts of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with South Andaman being the worst affected.

19.09.2006 Nearly 360 mobile teams have been pressed into service in Rajasthan to make door-to-door visits to check the outbreak of water-borne and other seasonal diseases following incessant rains in the state.

19.09.2006 The family planning programme should be linked closely to the HIV/AIDS programme to promote a holistic approach to save future generations from the dreaded disease, experts say.

19.09.2006 Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI) will organise various programmes for the awareness of the people about dementia and also to gain credibility so as to get the message across to millions on September 21, widely observed as the World Alzheimer's Day.

19.09.2006 Less than 50 per cent children up to the age of three years do not get the vital immunisation vaccinations in the country. Only 55 per cent children get vaccinated for measles, while 58 per cent children are immunised for diptheria pertussis and tetanus (DPT). Only 15 per cent children in the age group of 9 to 59 months receive the required dose of vitamin A in the country.

18.09.2006 Despite concerted efforts by the Government to tackle malnutrition and anaemia, the infant mortality rate (IMR) in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu (India) has registered an increase when compared with other districts in the state.

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

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.