MARGAO: South Goa District Collector N D Agrawal on Tuesday said that teachers have a pivotal role to mould students and ensure a tobacco free society.

Speaking at the district level workshop on Tobacco Free Educational Institutions at the Ravindra Bhavan, Margao, Agrawal said teachers play an important role in grooming the students and help contain use of tobacco in educational institutions. “You have the responsibility to make the society tobacco free. I expect the teaching community to take time bound decisions which would make Goa Tobacco free”, Agrawal said in his inaugural address.

The number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the state is down by 5 per cent, according to a survey by the National AIDS Control organization (NACO).

HIV positive cases in the district have gone up by about 33 per cent in the last one year.

"No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic."
-Colin Powell

With the HIV/AIDS epidemic showing signs of reversal globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and countries are now working towards zero new HIV infections, zero deaths from AIDS-related illne

A United Nations report said on Tuesday that eradicating AIDS was in sight, owing to better access to drugs that can both treat and prevent the incurable human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that cau

A major dengue epidemic is sweeping the country but the health ministry continues to be in denial.

All the leading private hospitals in Delhi, including Fortis, Max Healthcare, Apollo Hospital and Batra Hospital, are flooded with dengue patients and on any one day these hospitals have been handling over 150 dengue patients. Beds have been placed in waiting spaces of the larger hospitals to treat additional patients. But officials insist the number of dengue cases is still inching towards the 1,000 mark and therefore cannot be called an “epidemic”.

Iraqi authorities said a cholera outbreak that killed four people had been controlled, blaming contaminated water in a country still struggling with dilapidated infrastructure.