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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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 …
Francois Baird, chairman and co-founder of Baird’s CMC, talks to Health Issues India editor Kerean Watts about how COVID-19 has impacted businesses. We discuss how the pandemic has changed our understanding of the workplace; how we consider healthy and safe working environments; and the lasting effects of the pandemic’s disruption to the global economy and …
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A new study reports that it is difficult to show the overall impact of massive European investment in poverty-related diseases. The study was conducted by RAND and Baird’s CMC, a policy research company that is in the same group of companies as Health Issues India. The study, commissioned by the European Union (EU), did report …
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Health Issues India has been committed to tracking stories about the healthcare situation in India stories that outline progress made by India in order to ensure better health outcomes to all. A global study of health indicators released a few days ago has outlined how much India still needs to achieve in order to ensure that …
We have written before on HII about the shortage of doctors in India, especially amongst the rural population, and how the ratio of doctors to patients in India fall far below WHO norms. However, we have also written about how more doctors is not necessarily the solution for better health outcomes, especially in the context …
More than a million people die of Malaria every year, many of them children in Africa. In this context, the results of a Phase III malaria vaccine trial, which was testing the efficacy of the vaccine in preventing clinical and severe malaria in infants aged 6-12 weeks, are highly disappointing. While vector control and sanitation …
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