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This Report of the Public Accounts Committee deals with the Action Taken by the Government on the Observations and Recommendations of the Committee contained in their Twenty-First Report (17th Lok Sabha) on "Implementation of Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006".

The WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) was launched in 2015 to foster AMR surveillance and inform strategies to contain AMR.

This year’s Global Health Expenditure Report: Rising to the Pandemic's Challenges reveals how health expenditure was impacted during 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report explores: Whether the health spending patterns by governments, households, and donors changed during the first year of the COVID-19?

Each year, WHO’s World malaria report offers in-depth information on the latest trends in malaria control and elimination at global, regional and country levels. The report highlights progress towards global targets and describes opportunities and challenges for curbing and eliminating the disease.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when germs, including bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to antimicrobials – antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitic agents – making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.

The digital divide in the access and usage of ICTs and the internet has also led to an exclusionary consequence in three sectors of utmost significance: education, health and finance.

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Gift of Love Adventure Foundation Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/12/2022.

The petitioner (Gift of Love Adventure Foundation) has sought relief in the context of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994. The grievance of the petitioner is that the requirement of obtaining a domicile certificate for registering an organ transplantation is being imposed by many states - in terms of which patients have to submit a domicile certificate, if they wish to register in the cadaver transplant registry.

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Cure SMA Foundation of India & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/12/2022.

The petition filed in the nature of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) requested the Supreme Court to pass a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the government of India to completely exempt drugs for treatment of rare diseases from the levy of IGST, CGST, SGT and custom duty.

Persons with disabilities face a risk of dying up to 20 years earlier than other sections of society, according to this new report by the World Health Organization.

Achieving carbon neutral development will take a roughly 40-year-long structural transformation, especially in developing and emerging economies, where most people exposed to poor air quality live. In the meantime, 6-7 million people die each year by breathing polluted air. But does climate action always lead to better air quality?

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