Recent policy interventions by central and state governments offer hope for the market, but it is clear that action is needed to revitalise the market and deliver on the ambitious goals this report believes India can achieve.
Despite the promise by all countries to end TB by 2030 (and India to end TB by 2025), the decline in TB rates, deaths, and the number of new infections, is not steep enough to…
Narendra Modi’s government just doesn’t seem to learn from its past mistakes. From demonetisation to Farmers’ laws with the decision on Kashmir, the Citizenship Amendment Act and Covid lockdown in the interim the citizens of…
New Delhi, June 17: It is known that when people sneeze or cough, they can potentially transmit droplets carrying viruses like SARS-CoV-2 to others in their vicinity. But what happens when someone is talking to…
COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by WHO in March 2020 New Delhi, June 05: Since December 2019, the world has been recuperating from a significant unexpected challenge of novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the…
Local leaders like Mayors, Members of Parliament (including Ministers of Health) and other experts call for a One Health approach as a large number of diseases affecting humans have origins in animals, including COVID-19 and…
Highlights of WHO’s World Health Statistics 2022 New Delhi, 22 May 2022: The World Health Organization has published its latest comprehensive set of World Health Statistics for 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic…
14.9 million excess deaths were associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 Geneva, 5 May 2022 – New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly…
Called montelukast, the drug, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has been around for more than 20 years and is usually prescribed to reduce inflammation caused by conditions like asthma, hay fever, and hives.
WHO recommended highly successful COVID-19 therapy and calls for wide geographical distribution and transparency from the originator
Article based on an interview with the head of district TB programme of Kangra in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, India. Will Kangra keep the promise to eliminate TB by 2023? Only 21 months…
As Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections draw to a close, a wind of change seems to be blowing through the state. Initially, it was thought that because of the farmers’ movement the Samajwadi Party-Rashtriya Lok Dal…
New Delhi, Feb 25: India’s armoury of vaccines against Covid-19 has got a new weapon, with the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) approving Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) for Hyderabad-based Biological E Limited’s CORBEVAX. The…
Global health thought leader Dr Tim France rightly tweeted, “Here is the WHO stating explicitly what most people I know are saying to one another privately: Is not it really risky to lift all COVID-19…
Are self-tests for COVID-19 available? If we get infected with an infectious disease, will we not want to protect our family and others from it? But, unless we know our disease status timely and reliably,…
The drugs add to an expanding toolbox for COVID-19 treatment COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines: In its latest COVID guidelines, WHO ‘strongly recommends’ the Baricitinib antibody treatment for critical patients. New Delhi/ Geneva 14 January 2021 |…
New Delhi, Jan 11: The Department of Post has come out with a special postage stamp and a special cover commemorating the Platinum Jubilee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s National Physical Laboratory…
Drugs for Zika virus (ZIKV) infection : Zika Virus Disease in India New Delhi, Jan 06: New drugs could soon be in the offing for Zika virus (ZIKV) infection with a team of scientists at…
New Delhi, Jan 4, 2022: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today announced that he has tested positive for Covid-19, adding that he has “mild symptoms” and was isolated at home. Kejriwal tweeted : “I have…
Coronavirus genomic surveillance mechanism in India New Delhi, Dec 07: A consortium of national laboratories based in four cities – Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New Delhi, and Pune – is continuously conducting genomic surveillance of coronavirus, which…
