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Experts Seek Change In Policy Measures To Check Mortality

The Obama administration unveiled a long-awaited plan to combat the growing threat of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, a deadly strain of the number one infectious killer in the world.

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Cases of tuberculosis, 18/12/2015. As per the World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB report 2015, in the year 2014, 2.2 million cases were estimated in India which is higher than any other country. However, this high number is because of our large population even though the incidence, prevalence and mortality due to TB in India has been consistently declining over the last 15 years and India has also achieved the Millennium Development Goal and has halved the TB prevalence and mortality as compared to 1990 levels.

LUCKNOW: More than 80% of the people living with HIV in the state are yet to get treatment.

Floodwater has receded in almost all parts of the city but doctors working at several health camps are not just warning about the almost inevitable outbreak of diseases in the coming weeks, but als

The World Health Organization on Tuesday launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an assessment of the challenges for the next 15 years, a UN spokesman said here

In South Africa and beyond, thousands of TB cases emerge each year despite the BGC vaccine. An ambitious plan seeks to end what has become a global epidemic

MUMBAI: The fight against pediatric TB acquired an edge on Wednesday when the World Health Organisation (WHO) unveiled strawberry- and raspberry-flavoured medicines customised for children, at a co

GURGAON: There has been an overall 10% increase in cases of AIDS in the district this year, while the number of women infected with AIDS has gone up by 25% compared to last year, according to the d

Smoking seen as one of the biggest risk factors for the disease

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