Dr Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer of the GAVI Alliance, asks “how is it that Rwanda, among the world’s poorest countries – and still recovering from a brutal civil war – is able to protect its teenage girls against cancer more effectively than the G-8 countries?”. The answer is that Rwanda has vaccinated 93 percent of its …
One of India’s great public health achievements of the last few years has been eradicating wild-type polio infections. Now, an article in the current PLoS Medicine is sure to ruffle feathers amongst those committed to global polio eradication by questioning whether polio can or should be eradicated by 2018. An independent expert board has concluded that …
There is a lot of attention on TB these days. Earlier, we posted the link to an article on TB: how many young children are wrongly diagnosed as disease-free? Another article, featured on the dna india website talks about the WHO’s 2013 report which shows the government’s failure in tackling the disease. The main points …
According to The Hindu, the Supreme Court has finally allowed the government to start some new clinical trials in India. The catch is that it’s only five trials out of the 162 pending approvals. The five which were allowed had been reviewed by two new bodies that the Court had ordered to better protect the …
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Should you fall ill at 4am, you still want the best healthcare professionals as you would at 2pm when the staff are on-duty in the hospital. However, at 4am, most senior consultants are at home and out of reach. Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance in both urban and …
Here is a compelling article published in The Hindu which talks about the real challenges in diagnosing TB in young children. The correspondent is a recipient of the 2013 REACH Lilly MDR-TB Partnership National Media Fellowship for Reporting on TB. According to the Revised National TB Control Programme RNTCP ,TB is one of the leading …
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India’s recent but already notorious Indian Parliamentary report on HPV vaccine trials is looking odder and odder. According to FIGO (the global professional body for obstetricians and gynaecologists), “a large-scale study in Sweden and Denmark has established that the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine does not carry a risk of serious adverse reactions.” The study from Karolinska followed a million …
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A hard-hitting new opinion piece calls on Indian politicians and media to take seriously the country’s appalling death rate from cervical cancer. More women die from the disease every year in India than in any other country; a vaccine could prevent 80 percent of future cases; almost every middle class girl in the country gets …
In another great example of public private partnership, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad launched the indigenous produced Japanese Encephalitis vaccine JENVAC which has been jointly developed by scientists of National Institute of Virology, the ICMR and Bharat Biotech Ltd. Speaking at the occasion, the Health Minister termed the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) as a serious …
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There is a long and complicated tussle over patents in the pharma sector in India. Over the past year, India has issued two compulsory licences for pharmaceuticals and made a number of other moves seen as hostile to patent holders (see this recent article on our , Health Issues India which gives a rundown) Now, according to Business …
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