The death of an American woman from a “nightmare bacteria” she contracted in India has shed new light onto the debate surrounding antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the country. The American woman grabbed the headlines on this occasion. However, 58,000 Indian babies die every year from bacteria that may not be as much of a “nightmare”, …
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Over a million Indians a year die because of air pollution, a new Greenpeace report claims. The smog cost three percent of GDP annually, it adds. Greenpeace bases the estimate on official figures. The report – subtly titled “Airapocalypse” – was published on Wednesday, January 11th 2017. Its findings drew upon online reports and information …
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India is the first country included in the WHO Neglected tropical diseases roadmap to be free of both yaws (endemic treponematoses) and neonatal tetanus, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The Roadmap, published in 2011, is “a comprehensive plan of control, elimination and eradication targets for 17 NTDs to be reached between 2012-2020” Yaws …
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India does not spend enough on healthcare. This is according to reports by The World Bank, which found that India spends just 4.7% of its GDP (private and public spending combined) on healthcare in 2014 – versus a global average of 9.9%. This was also the case for neighbouring countries such as China (5.5%) and …
Malaria has been a global scourge for millennia. This is especially true of India. For as long as the country has been an independent nation, malaria has posed a major threat to the health of the nation. In 1947, an estimated 75 million Indians were infected with malaria – more than a fifth of the …
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“We can now safely say that we can end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030.” Such were the bold words of Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda during an event to mark World AIDS Day on December 1. Nadda said that India had defied predictions from “around two decades ago” that it would be “the AIDS …
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