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Routine vaccinations took a hit in the pandemic: Jonathan Mosser explains why

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The COVID-19 pandemic cost at least seventeen million children routine vaccinations, recent research from The Lancet shows. According to the research, “routine immunisation services faced stark challenges in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic causing the most widespread and largest global disruption in recent history.” Senior author and Assistant Professor from the Institute for Health Metrics …

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Universal health coverage: The need of the hour

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In 2020, a crisis hit that no country was prepared for and exposed one of society’s great fault lines: the chronic failure to adequately invest in public health and ensure universal health coverage. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses and flaws in health systems everywhere. India has felt the brunt acutely as the world’s second …

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Midwives: A vital and life-saving investment

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It need not be said, but is often overlooked, that public health systems benefit substantially from the work of midwives. This has been quantified to the tune of 4.3 million lives that could be saved per year by the year 2035 in new research published in The Lancet. The paper “[estimates] that, relative to current …

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Dementia can be prevented: Lancet Study 2020

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A recent Lancet study has suggested that, through a number of changes to both government policy and to individual behaviour, approximately forty percent of dementia cases can be prevented. “Our report shows that it is within the power of policy-makers and individuals to prevent and delay a significant proportion of dementia, with opportunities to make …

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HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria: A surge in deaths?

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It is not news that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption to public health – and as managing the pandemic ostensibly takes top priority for health systems worldwide, the ramifications for management of other diseases is a real concern. This concern has been raised in a modelling study released by The Lancet Global Health …

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Lancet retracts controversial HCQ study

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The authors of a controversial study concerning hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and its use in the treatment of COVID-19 have retracted it. “After publication…several concerns were raised with respect to the veracity of the data and analyses conducted by Surgisphere Corporation and its founder and our co-author, Sapan Desai, in our publication,” three of the study authors …

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Child health and wellbeing: The world needs to invest

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Child health and wellbeing: “The most powerful investments a society can make” What kind of country does one wish theirs to be? There are many possible answers to this question. Perhaps one of the most compelling and morally imperative answers would be that it is a country that provides for its children – in both …

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Blood supply in India does not meet demand

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The global health community needs to rethink its estimation of how much blood a country needs to match demand, according to a study published today in The Lancet Haematology. For India, there is much to take away from the findings which, for the first time, estimate the gap between blood supply and demand worldwide. “An …

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5.2 million lives: The cost of NCDs

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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are an ever growing issue in India. Latest figures suggest as many as 5.2 million people die from NCDs every year. This figure is no surprise, Heart disease alone accounted for 28.1 percent of all deaths in India in 2016. Add to this the deaths resulting from NCDs such as cancer, asthma …

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‘Our legacy to future generations’: India and a malaria-free world

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India will prioritise the eradication of malaria on its public health agenda, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has announced on the heels of a landmark report by experts which proclaims that a malaria-free world by 2050 is attainable – if a bold approach is undertaken. “We are working towards ending malaria as soon as …

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