Non-communicable diseases take increasing toll in South Asia as the region continues to grapple with diseases of poverty, said a World Bank press release here on Wednesday, reports BSS
The Asian Development Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have created a new ‘Sanitation Financing Trust Fund’ to expand and speed up access to safe sanitation in countries in Asia and
Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) will establish as many as 19 more well-equipped water testing laboratories across Pakistan for proviosion of safe drinking water to the peopl
At least three persons, including a two-year-old, have allegedly died of diarrhoea at Dagamaha and Taparangia villages under Kandhamal's Daringibadi block in the last one week.
A 38-year-old woman from Satara has succumbed to swine flu in a hospital here, taking the city’s H1N1 death toll to 39 so far this year. The contagion claimed nine victims in August.
Poor sanitation remains a major public health concern linked to several important health outcomes; emerging evidence indicates a link to childhood stunting. In India over half of the population defecates in the open; the prevalence of stunting remains very high. Recently published data on levels of stunting in 112 districts of India provide an opportunity to explore the relationship between levels of open defecation and stunting within this population.
Pathetic sanitation conditions coupled with carelessness of residents, who get water from pipes passing through septic tanks, have resulted in the outbreak of diarrhoea in this village with more th
In an attempt to check infant mortality rate, Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI) programme was launched in city on Thursday with an objective to train basic health wo
