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New Test For Detecting Trachoma

...e and Tropical Medicine. “The new test will enable programme managers to find out for themselves which communities still harbor the infection and thus to focus treatment on the communities which really need it.” The World Health Organization says that 84 million people in 55 countries are potentially in need...

Hepatitis C Screening Program in Wales

...ntacting hepatitis C is very small and the contact programme is being taken on a precautionary basis." Hepatitis C is the infection or inflammation of the liver and is caused by a blood-borne virus. The disease is very contagious and spreads when blood of an infected person enters into the bloodstream of an...

UNICEF Facts & Figures About Maternal Death In India On The Eve Of Mother’s Da

...Mission, the government's ambitious social service programme launched in April 2005 along with the Reproductive and Child Health programme, is now expected to help India achieve a lower maternal mortality in the next seven years to less than a fifth of current rate of maternal deaths. Source: Indo-Asian News...

Global Fund Policy Encouraging Drug Resistance

...sistance. Kochi Arata, head of the WHO's malaria programme referring to the compliance list of drugs circulated by the Global Fund which contains advice on the malaria drug artemisinin. It has been found that Artemisinin was effective in treating the worst cases of malaria even the strains of the malarial pa...

ISRO To Expand Telemedicine Network, 4 Speciality Hospitals To Be Included

...o ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair, the telemedicine programme is an example of societal orientation of the Indian space programme. Many speciality hospitals, besides state governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), have shown interest in establishing the network to extend quality healthcare to the...

Indian, Chinese Students In France To Receive Grant From Thales

...tner schools, the ministry and Thales. While the programme will extend to other countries also, 24 students f...he reach and scope of each of the partners." The programme is part of the "Technology for Education and Youth" sponsorship policy of Thales. --Edited IANS ...

Foot and Mouth Raises Its Ugly Head in Vietnam

...not as dangerous as avian flu," said Vu Ngoc Tien, programme assistant at the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation in Hanoi. "There have not been a big number of cases detected so far." It is estimated that nearly 30,300 cattle and pigs have got sick because of the disease. This has caused a flutter in ...

HIV Positive People Seek Implementation of UNGASS

...ess the problem of HIV/AIDS. Esther Mariaselvam, programme manager of ActionAid, told reporters here that UNGASS in 2001 had set goals like offering universal access to quality treatment for people who are HIV positive, creating a society free of stigma, protection of the rights of children with HIV. ‘Not ...

V P Singh Proposes Doubling Of Medical Seats

...eighborhood school scheme on the lines of one such programme in Britain. Under this scheme, all children would only go to neighborhood schools. The government should allow the private sector to open these schools and fix a reasonable fee with the participation of local communities in their management." Singh...

A New Study Feels That The UK heart drug Guidelines Not Enough

...autioned that this needs to go in hand with a huge programme of educating people to change their unhealthy lifestyle and tackle the risk factors of heart disease, which they stated still remains a national priority. Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said that this paper sugge...

Medical LINAC Machine Manufacturing Unit At Khargar

...e financial assistance to SAMEER for expanding the programme further as the country requires around at least 1,000 such medical Linac machines to treat cancer patients at the rate of one machine per million,’ he said. SAMEER which has the expertise in 4 MV (beam energy) Medical LINAC, has installed its first...

Ranbaxy's Four HIV/AIDS Drugs In WHO Pre-Qualification List

...rapidly becoming a preferred drug in HIV treatment programme in developing countries. The other newly listed drug, Stavudine, is also being widely used as a first line of therapy against AIDS. Both products increase customer choice enabling patients to access therapy easily, at affordable prices," Singh added....

Meira Kumar Suggests Monitoring Systems To Check Drug Abuse

...ffects of drug abuse, dealing with addicts through programme of motivational counseling, treatment, follow-up and social reintegration of recovered addicts and imparting drug abuse prevention/rehabilitation training to volunteers with a view to build up and educate cadres of service providers. The objective o...

Government Might Conduct Measles Vaccination Campaign

...or an immunisation campaign similar to pulse polio programme to administer a booster dose of measles vaccine. /.... The Government would allocate the money for the programme after getting the approval of the Parliament. The surveillance of measles had been added to the pul...

Teachers not comfortable in giving sex education: PU Study

...ble crisis in their tender age,' says Renu Gandhi, programme coordinator from CACEE. Gandhi says most of the teachers they interviewed said they were not comfortable talking on HIV/AIDS and related things to students while some chose to give vague answers on the topic. Gandhi, along with Dr Avnish Jolly, und...

Free Treatment For Endosulfan Victims: Minister

...emathi said tody. // Addressing a meet-the-press programme here, she said the treatment would be made available to all those who had been given `disability cards' by the government. A separate department for the welfare of women and children would be formed under the Health Ministry. A Public Health Centre ...

Holistic Health Programme By Brahamakumaris On May 28

...echniques would form part of a one-day health care programme held here on May 28 by the Rajayoga Foundation of ...ng of the foundation and a ist by profession, the programme will deal with finding solutions of physical ailments by discovering the spiritual potential of the ...

Drugs Kill 15,000 Indonesians Every Year

...l administrations to adopt alternative development programme such as changing opium plant with other economically valuable crops. 'The local administration should provide market for their crops and infrastructure as well as improve the education and health sectors,' he said. Source:PTI News...

Heroin Addicts Chained For Cure

...eir rehabilitation centre in a unique de-addiction programme in this Manipur district bordering Myanmar in northeastern India. // Two heavy China-made padlocks that are difficult to pick secure the thick manacles around the ankles of 74 druggies as they shamble across the Gamnuam Christian Home participating...

Global War Against AIDS May Fail Target, Warns UN

...ring treatment has increased. A global five-year programme launched by the World Health Organization failed to meet its target of providing antiretroviral drugs to three million AIDS patients by the end of 2005. Only 1.3 million people received the treatment. "In many countries, progress in scaling up prov...

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