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Profile: Anjali Gopalan, Founder of the Naz Foundation Trust and human rights advocate

Article by Ajoy Bose Ajoy Bose is a veteran print journalist, television commentator and author who has written several books on politics, social movements and culture. His latest book Across the Universe: The Beatles in India inspired his debut as director of the award winning documentary The Beatles and India. He has also been involved […]

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Why Are Some Global Health Efforts Failing? | Opinion

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the considerable inequality found in health systems across the globe. While medical advances are saving countless lives, many tragic deaths have occurred across the world from COVID-19, as well as countless other diseases, simply because people are unable to access these lifesaving treatments. In situations like the pandemic, any country

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International HPV Awareness Day 2022 – an interview with Benda Kithaka, KILELE Health, Kenya

The international HPV awareness day is observed each year to sensitise the global audience on the value of prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of human papillomavirus. These efforts aim to increase awareness and reduce stigma around the disease, thereby eliminating it and lowering the cervical cancer burden. In Africa, HPV is a highly prevalent virus

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Moderna disputes COVID vaccine credit; the latest health stories from around the world

  Confronted by the challenge of COVID-19, everybody and his uncle got together to fight back. In the field of vaccines and therapeutics this often meant a private-public partnership with governments in the Western world, particularly the US, doling out astronomical sums of money as advance payments for vaccines still under development. Not only did

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A new study in Argentina on Sputnik V: “Our observations suggest that protection increases over 6 months following vaccination as a consequence of antibody maturation, resulting in improved potency of antibodies to viral escape mutatio

A new study in Argentina on Sputnik V: “Our observations suggest that protection increases over 6 months following vaccination as a consequence of antibody maturation, resulting in improved potency of antibodies to viral escape mutations.” Moscow, August 25, 2021 – The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund) announces results of a study

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A combination between AstraZeneca and the first component of Sputnik V vaccine (Sputnik Light) demonstrates high immunogenicity profile in the clinical study in Azerbaijan

Moscow, August 20, 2021 – The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund), AstraZeneca and R-Pharm announce preliminary results on immunogenicity of combined use of the AstraZeneca vaccine (developed jointly with the University of Oxford) and the first component of the Sputnik V vaccine (Sputnik Light vaccine based on human adenovirus serotype 26)

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Vital Strategies Launches First-of-Its-Kind Digital Crowdsourcing Tool to Monitor Tobacco Marketing in India

TERM platform exposes ads targeting youth, skirting of advertising, promotions and sponsorship restrictions New Delhi, 21 July 2021: Each year, the tobacco industry spends millions of dollars on marketing to increase tobacco consumption, particularly among youth. With more than 267 million tobacco users in India, a new digital platform from global health organization Vital Strategies

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High prevalence and potential complications highlight the urgent need for thyroid screening in India

1 in 10 adults in India are affected by underactive thyroid disorder or hypothyroidism. In Mumbai alone, 16.36% of adults suffer from hypothyroidism with 2.86% of cases undetected. About three times more prevalent in women compared to men, with concerning implications for pregnant women. Routine health services including continuum of care for non-communicable diseases have

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Exclusive interview with T. M. Chen of CCIL: Conservation, climate, and communities

Conservation is key, for our environment and for our health. We discuss with T. M. Chen, president of Continental Carbon India Limited (CCIL) and Master of Chemical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University, to further investigate this topic. “The drastic climate change caused by the greenhouse effect is seriously affecting our lives,” Chen said on

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