Since the start of the decade, India has witnessed significant reductions in its HIV/AIDS burden. New HIV infections fell from 120,000 in 2010 to 88,000 in 2017; AIDS-related deaths decreased from 160,000 to 90,000; and there were 2.1 million people living with HIV in India 2017, compared to 2.3 million in 2010. The findings were …
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Around 97,000 children in India suffer from type 1 diabetes. In Delhi alone around 32 children per every 1,000 are affected by the disease. Indians suffer a genetic predisposition to diabetes which partially accounts for the elevated numbers of diabetics in India compared to other nations. A number of genes have been uncovered which could …
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Access to healthcare has improved in India since 1990 – but not enough. Meanwhile, inequality persists. The country takes the 145th place out of 195 countries on the Healthcare Access and Quality (HAQ) Index. This measures the accessibility and quality of healthcare in countries by drawing on a plethora of data, including the 2016 Global …
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Just five countries account for 57 percent of the world’s cases of hepatitis B virus (HBV). India is one of them. Almost 292 million people worldwide have HBV. Of these, just five percent receive the treatment they need. Ninety percent are undiagnosed, according to a study published earlier this year in The Lancet. The study …
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‘Nations Within a Nation’ A groundbreaking new study published today in The Lancet spotlights a major concern about healthcare in India: the vast disparities between its states. ‘Nations Within a Nation’, touted as ‘the first comprehensive analysis of health in India’, shows that the ‘substantial gains in healthcare’ made by India in recent years have …
India has avoided around one million deaths of children under five since 2005 claims a study recently published in The Lancet. Despite this reduction, India still has more child deaths than any other country, with 0.9 million child deaths occurring annually. The reduction since 2005 does indicate a positive trend, though India requires a great …
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More children die from tuberculosis in India than anywhere else in the world. The disease killed 60,000 children below the age of 15 in the country in 2015. This represents roughly 25 percent of the global count. India holds a disproportionately high number of cases: TB is a disease that is endemic in low to …
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The two most common lung diseases – asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – were responsible for 3.6 million deaths in 2015. This is according to a recent study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. COPD claimed the lives of 3.2 million people worldwide. Asthma was also responsible for claiming the lives of a …
India’s first ever nutritional atlas goes live online, thanks to Telangana’s National Institute of Nutrition (NIN). An essential tool In an exclusive interview with Health Issues India, Dr M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao of the NIN says he hopes that the atlas will useful to “policy makers, programme managers, researchers, media, students and other stakeholders.” Given the …
India is behind much-less-developed countries in healthcare, according to a new study published by The Lancet. India places 154th of 195 countries in a “healthcare access and quality index” drawn from The Lancet ‘s 2015 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. Whilst improvements have been made since 1990, the study indicates India still has a …
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