New data released by the United Nations Organisation show that under-five mortality rates have dropped by 49 per cent between 1990 and 2013. There has been accelerated average annual reduction during this period but the overall progress is still short of meeting the global target of two-thirds decrease in under-five mortality by 2015. New …
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In July, Health Issues India had covered an article from the Times of India titled “Are new costly vaccines needed in India? “. Prime Minister Modi’s recently announced introduction of the newer, more expensive vaccines into the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) meant that the budget allocation for vaccine procurement would have to go up six times …
An extract from the Reuters story India has capped the prices of 36 drugs, including those used to treat infections and diabetes, in a move which the Government says is designed to make essential medicines more affordable, a senior official of the country’s drug pricing authority told Reuters on Friday. The medicines join a list …
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“One in five people suffer from a mental illness sometime or the other in India” says a Times of India article. Mental health care in India is a neglected area in India due to factors such as ignorance, stigma and lack of doctors. With both increasingly stressful lifestyles and figures of depression, this field needs …
New research on malnutrition, which leads to childhood stunting, suggests that a root cause may be an abundance of human waste polluting soil and water, rather than a scarcity of food. Excerpts from the article are mentioned below. According to a fascinating article in the New York Times, research on malnutrition, which leads …
Prime Minister Modi’s I DAY speech includes sanitation, womens’ safety, improving sex ratios, adopting villages , ending poverty and possibly removing the planning commission. On India’s 68th independence day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the need to improve India’s sex ratios and against the widespread practice of aborting female foetuses in his speech. He …
India’s airports went on alert and the government opened an emergency helpline on Saturday as part of measures to tackle any outbreak of the deadly Ebola epidemic in the country of 1.25 billion people.India has nearly 45,000 nationals living in the four Ebola-affected West African nations and health officials said there was a possibility of …
Union Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan trying to stir hopes of a cleanup of the country’s health care industry? A British Medical Journal (BMJ) article on corruption in Indian healthcare has been creating much debate in the medical community and among policy experts. “Kickbacks and bribes oil every part of the healthcare machinery and …
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In India, with the majority of its population aged 30 or less, the main focus of national policy till now has been directed to the basic developmental needs and welfare of its younger population -children, adolescents and young adults. Providing for the elderly population had taken a back-seat. But now, India is facing an …
Accepting the recommendations made by the National Technical Advisory Group of India (NTAGI), Prime Minister Narendra Modi last Thursday announced the introduction of four new vaccines as part of India’s Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP). These include vaccines against rotavirus, rubella and polio (injectable), along with an adult vaccine against Japanese encephalitis. According to an article …
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