Policy To Focus On Strict Implementation Of PCPNDT, Edu

The girl child is the focus of the new child policy that the Child Rights Protection Commission is drafting and which will be implemented by September-end. The draft includes measures to improve the female sex ratio, eliminate female foeticide and adopt zero tolerance for female infanticide.

With the data provided by the Centre for Pollution Control (CPC), it has been found that majority of the city hospitals have been flouting the norms for biomedical waste treatment.

Jaipur: Looking to an increase in the prevalence of HIV in state, the government is planning to conduct HIV screening tests on a large scale but with the consent of test takers.

Healthcare Providers Submit List After Govt Rule Made It Mandatory In 2012

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recorded 727 fresh cases of tuberculosis (TB), as reported by private hospitals in the city ever since it was made a notifiable disease by the Union government last May. This is in addition to the 300 cases on an average reported every month from the civic and government hospitals.

Bhutan has diagnosed 24 new HIV positive cases between December 1, 2012 and June 30 this year, taking the country’s total number of detected cases to 321, almost two decades after it detected its f

Medical experts yesterday said that HIV positive cases continued to show an alarming increase in Sri Lanka.

: In the first six months of this year 16 people have died of HIV/AIDS in Sri Lanka, the Director of the HIV Prevention Programme Dr. Sisira Liyanage has said.

A new survey report has revealed that in every 100 HIV infected people around 12 people (11.5 per cent) have Tuberculosis (TB).