Tag: sustainable development goals
Narendra Modi receives global Goalkeeper award from Bill Gates
In New York, at the fourth edition of the Goalkeepers awards, Modi talks about India's resolve to fulfil Mahatma Gandhi's vision with the Swacch...
WHO health ministers discuss health goals for SE Asia region
Health ministers from the WHO South East Asia region will meet in New Delhi over the week to discuss priority health issues
Health Ministers and...
Artificial intelligence new weapon in India’s tuberculosis armoury
India's TB Control Programme is now looking at artificial intelligence to bring new edge to the fight against tuberculosis
The Central TB Division of the...
TB rates down in the US, but huge racial disparities still...
Study finds that incidence of TB in the United States has gone down but some ethnic and racial groups are more prone to the...
Kerala tops Niti Ayog health index, UP at the bottom
Niti Ayog releases its health index scores for 2019, Kerala remains at the top, UP at the bottom
Kerala topped the Niti Ayog Health Index...
Teenage pregnancies add to India’s child malnutrition burden
Study links child malnutrition to underage pregnancies; 31% of India's married women are mothers by the time they are 18 years old
Children born to...
Indians love their tipple, drinking increased by 38% between 2010-17
Globally, alcohol intake increased; but most notable increase was in India between 2010-2017
India has bucked the global trend in drinking with a 38 percent...
WHO wants to halve deaths, disability following snakebite
World Health Organisation has drawn up a strategy to reduce by 50% deaths and disabilities the world over caused by snakebite
WHO has released its...
Not notifying TB a crime, Ahmedabad sees first FIR against doctor
Not notifying TB was made a punishable offence last year, but this is the first FIR against a doctor for non-compliance
For the first time...
Congo offers new model for treatment of drug resistant Tuberculosis
Molecular diagnostics, shorter treatment regimen worked against drug resistant tuberculosis in Congo
A high proportion of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) cases can be cured in conflict-affected...