Eradication

Evidence supporting H.pylori eradication

A study of patients on long-term non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) treatment has shown that eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection can substantially reduce the risk of ulcer formation.// Treatment with omeprazole triple therapy eradicated 90 per cent of H.pylori infections and reduced the six-month ulcer probability of 34 per cent found in the control group to 12 per cent in the...

Is complete eradication of Leprosy possible in India?

In India the prevalence of leprosy is decreasing to about 0.95 cases per 10,000 population. The health care minister announced that leprosy is eliminated from India. // But this statement is very ambiguous because it does not mean that the disease is completely eliminated but the prevalence is significantly reduced. It is reduced o the rate of less than one case per 10,000 population....

Israel Claims Eradication Of Bird Flu In Poultry

The Israeli Agriculture minister Zeev Boim claimed on Sunday that they had eradicated all bird flu in countries poultry. // The minister, who came under strong criticism last week for his ministry’s response to the bird flu, said that Israel has taken action more quickly than the other countries. At the same time he warned of the possibility of the deadly H5N1 strain can reoccur. Addre...

India to Spend Rs.10 bn on Polio Eradication Strategies

India Thursday approved Rs.10.39 billion for implementing polio eradication strategies during 2006-07 besides Rs.200 million for corrective surgery and rehabilitation of polio victims. // "The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved funds of Rs.10.39 billion for implementing polio eradication strategies in the year 2006-07," Information and Broadcasting Minister P.R....

Community Awareness Is Imperative For Eradication Of Rabies

Rabies, the most dreaded of all the communicable diseases that humans can get from animals, needed to be controlled through effective dog population management and widespread immunization programmes // , Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said. First-aid availability, management of animal bites, pre and post-exposure prophylaxis, dog population management and labo...

Japan's Support for Polio Eradication in India

The government of Japan has agreed to provide a grant assistance of Rs.190 million (456 million yen) for the intensified pulse polio immunisation (IIPI) campaign// in India this year, parliament was informed Wednesday. Answering a question, Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told the Lok Sabha: 'The grant will be utilised for procurement of vaccine through UNICEF to...

WHO Makes No Bones about Global Polio Eradication

Geneva: Polio has indeed been a major handicap to world health and WHO knows it better! The World Health Organization has communicated// its abiding vision of seeing a world free of polio in a span of one to two years. The vision which carried a deadline of 2005 faced a gap in fructification, sending it off mark by more than two years. This was mainly due to the immunization boycott s...

Eradication of Lung Cancer in 20 years

Lung cancer which has been one of the major causes of death in Scotland, could be virtually eradicated from Scotland in the next two decades// according to the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Harry Burns. According to Dr Harry Burns, "In the 1960s, one in 100 men died of lung cancer. Today, rates are falling all the time and, thanks to the smoking ban, I expect the reduction in deaths to ac...

Global Polio Eradication: A Campaign to Vaccinate Every Child on the Planet

To most Americans, polio is a disease from the past, a successful health campaign to be glorified in the history books.// But around the globe it’s a different story. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is arguably the greatest-ever act in the name of the public good. It has taken 18 years of coordinated effort by millions of healthcare workers and volunteers in every countr...

UN Health Agency, Partners Seek Total Eradication of Polio

The United Nations health agency and its partners have pledged to eradicate the polio in the last four endemic countries//. They have taken measures to sustain the effort as long as needed till the last trace of the paralyzing and fatal disease is nipped out. Mounting a hopefully final assault on polio, the United Nations health agency and its partners have pledged to raise within 12...

Anemia Eradication During Adolescence

Iron deficiency anemia is the commonest medical disorder in pregnancy, adversely affecting maternal and fetal health.// Despite several national programmes targeted at control and treatment of anemia during pregnancy, the success has not been as anticipated, since the majority of women present late. Poor nutritional status and anemia in pregnancy have consequences that extend over ge...

HIV Eradication Unlikely Following Bone Marrow Transplantation

The first published report of the HIV eradication potential of a bone marrow transplant in an individual on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has concluded that// eradication is unlikely utilising this method. Currently available anti-HIV drugs may be able to reduce HIV to 'undetectable' levels in the blood, but they cannot remove HIV's genes that are integrated in the DN...

Health Ministers Meeting on Polio Eradication Today

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss will preside over a meeting of ten State health ministers today, which will review the polio eradication process. The meeting has been convened in the wake of reports that the incidence of polio has exacerbated in the last two years. During the meeting, the minister will review the situation in the country and...