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UK Govt Says On Course For National Chlamydia Screening

... it is on track to roll-out a nationwide screening programme for chlamydia, the sexually transmitted disease which can cause infertility in both sexes//. So far nearly 80,000 people have been screened for the disease, which is difficult to detect but is easy to cure, following the launch in 2003 of the Nation...

Bird flu threat ruled out: Karnataka Forest Department

...g kept on our parks and sanctuaries and a training programme for veterinary doctors is already on," he said. Also, a massive awareness programme for people living in villages surrounding the tanks, the general public, the NGOs working on bird co...

Indian Government Keen On JE Vaccine Supply And Patenting Of Indian Medicine Formulations

...ity. The possibility of introducing an orientation programme on Indian Medicine to MBBS students is also under consideration. Responding to the Government’s preparation to tackle bird flu, he said that the Animal Husbandry Ministry and Health Ministry has been keeping a watch over the situation for the past ...

Relief for HIV/AIDS patients: ART therapy now available in India

...spital, Itanagar who underwent a four-day training programme on ART therapy at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) recently, said the therapy would control infection, kill the virus and increase the immunity system. ''There is tremendous stigma attached to this disease. People should seek counseling...

Wockhardt Group Plans Hospital In Delhi By End-2007

...untry through its outreach and preventive medicine programme in tie up with primary and secondary healthcare service providers and private hospitals. (IANS)...

Delhi To Host International Women’s Congress From Nov 2

...il of Medical Research, besides the UN Development programme and Unicef. The meet will encourage exchange of knowledge and experience and strengthen ties not only between academic circles and trade unions but also with feminist groups and health care professionals. "For the first time ever, short films and ...

Chennai AIDS Campaign Highlights The Social Neglect Faced By Victims

...nai Corporation were amongst the participants. The programme was also attended by Ranjini Murugan, FPAI branch president; Vathsala Narayanaswamy, FPAI member and Banumathi, Zonal Medical Officer of Vadapalani Zone. Among healthcare providers who attended the study, nearly 30% had a misconception that AIDS wo...

Good Response from Pregnant Women in Delhi for Free ART Therapy

...shed to achieve the desired objective. An outreach programme called `MITWA', provides mobile HIV testing services and counseling services, in the rural or slum areas where people are largely ignorant regarding the spread of HIV. The Delhi Health Department, has also initiated several of `Stree Shakti' camps to...

AIDS Cases On The Rise In West Bengal

...oject Director of WBSACS. '"We have scaled up our programme among the flying sex workers and the truckers in the city and districts,' said Kumar. 'We spend about Rs.430 million a year on prevention and awareness campaigns supplemented with manpower help from the State Government, which is about Rs.80 million...

India Needs To Pay More Attention To Detecting Cancer

...tre, Mumbai said: 'There is no organized screening programme for cervix and breast cancers in India. Population...w said his hospital has initiated a rural outreach programme and the experiences gained in terms of reduction in the incidence and mortality due to oral, cervix ...

WBSACS Says Number Of AIDS Cases On The Rise

...e State, which also cover the red light areas. The programme will be scaled up with the State’s mobile sex workers who are reportedly more vulnerable to the infection. The WBSACS has over 2,000 HIV/AIDS positive members. <Br...

DAPIC Project to Prevent Amputations

...on Prevention Initiative in the Community (DAPIC)" programme at Maragal Kandigai village out of mere curiosity, the special shoes came as a boon. DAPIC seeks to prevent diabetic foot amputations in the State. Every year four million people across the globe get foot ulcer and one in every six people with diab...

‘Train The Trainers’ Health programme Inaugurate

BHUBANESWAR: A train the trainers programme for district level trainers was inaugurated by the state health secretary - Mr RN Senapati//. The trainers would provide training to the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) and recruited under the National Rural Health Mission to help by tak...

India's vaccination project gets a boost

...ike Bihar and Uttar Pradesh where the immunization programme is close to a breakdown. Only 10 per cent children in Bihar and 23 percent in UP are vaccinated. GAVI funding across the world in the last two years is believed to have saved the lives of three million children....

AIDS bias successfully overcome by Indian Muslims in South Africa

...for facilities to extend the service, according to programme manager Razia Kajee. "We provide a service to anybody, irrespective of their religion or creed, and are definitely seeing an increase in awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic among Muslims," Kajee said. "While our care is based on an Islamic ethos, we...

Time to wake up as conservationists

...ciation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The programme selects and gives scholarships to students from the disciplines of biological sciences, physical sciences, social and cultural sciences, and technology innovation in support of conservation science. According to Dr. Gary Machlis, Canon Scholars prog...

Apollo And Stanford Team To Train Emergency Medical Technicians

...e marked by a launch of a first-ever international programme for training of emergency medical technicians in India//. The one-year full time programme would be conducted at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad. Candidates who have passed Intermediate or an e...

Snippy haircuts, snappier AIDS lessons from barbers

... in the world after South Africa. "We started the programme in 2001 as a pilot project and after receiving a positive response decided to begin it in a more organised way. We launched it full-fledged in Lajpat Nagar," said Manisha Pal, project coordinator of FXB-India. So far, 13,000 packs of condoms have be...

Cocaine Kates Lover Wants to Kick his Drug Habit

...adow Clinic. She even paid for Doherty to join the programme but he quit. In a public statement she had said: "I want to apologise to all of the people I have let down because of my behaviour, which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others." During her rehabitatio...

GP's online referral scheme in UK 'a national IT disaster'

...ent of Health had estimated the total costs of the programme at up to ￡31 billion, of which only ￡6.2 billion will be met centrally. According to leaked e-mails from NHS IT chief Richard Granger, the failure of 'choose and book' to deliver on time was in danger' of 'derailing the programme'. A National Aud...

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