2.1 million Indians live with HIV – the third largest HIV epidemic in the world. Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda intends to make HIV/AIDS a thing of the past in India by 2030. On World AIDS Day 2018, we investigate how likely this is to come to pass. Recent years have seen India make …
India’s polio scare made headlines in October. However, it has since faded from the forefront of media stories. In mid-October it was found that live type-2 polio strains were circulation in samples of vaccines. This sparked concerns that India was facing a polio resurgence. These fears may have been overblown as reporting on the matter …
Pneumonia will kill 1.7 million of India’s children by 2030. Why is this the case for a disease that is both preventable and treatable? A study published to mark World Pneumonia Day estimates eleven million children under the age of five are likely to be killed by pneumonia over the next twelve years worldwide. Only …
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India is currently experiencing significant numbers of swine flu cases across multiple states and union territories. At the time of writing there have been 542 deaths due to swine flu and 6,803 infection cases. The numbers so far fall much short of the figures last year. 38,811 swine flu cases were recorded in 2017. However, …
A new weapon in the fight against tuberculosis may have been found during a trial in Belarus. The drug, named Bedaquiline, was shown to have more than a ninety percent cure rate when given in combination with other TB medicines. By comparison, current TB drugs were shown to be effective in just over half of cases. Like …
In many countries a measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is a standardised vaccine provided to all children. India has in recent years run extensive measles and rubella vaccination campaigns. However, it continues to neglect to add mumps to this list. Mumps can result in a number of severe and even fatal complications. It most …
In response to the recent public health scare involving the identification of type-2 polio virus contamination in circulating vaccines, the Union Health Ministry is probing the incident. The source of the vaccine was traced back to an Indonesian pharmaceutical company PT Bio Farma. These vaccines were then purchased by Indian company Biomed Pvt. Ltd. who …
In May, news reports were released the world over that a disease touted by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of ten potential upcoming large scale epidemic was found in India. The disease, the Nipah virus, is a worrisome prospect. The disease has a seventy percent mortality rate, making the threat to life considerable. …
Swachh Bharat, or Clean India, is typically seen as just an endeavour to place toilets in villages and encourage hand washing. While these things seem like simple measures to improve sanitation, the knock on effect of doing so could have far more wide ranging consequences. Three of seven most common causes of disease and death …
At the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur an uncommon situation arose. One patient was coinfected with several infectious diseases. Such a situation is rare, but exposes a potential hazard in rapid diagnosis of a single condition. Such a situation is rare. While many infectious diseases are common in India, it is fairly unusual for …
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