The National Rural Health Mission funds the vaccine process, with the UNICEF providing all the technical help. The vaccine is administered at the village health centres, called sub-centres. In Darai village, a few km from Jabalpur, the anganwadi doubles up as health centre to service its 1,100 population.

At least nineteen people have died of tuberculosis disease in Tanahun district in the past one year.

The Union Health Ministry has asked all state tuberculosis (TB) officers to endorse the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), urging countries to ban

The World Health Organisation (WHO) called on Wednesday for an immediate halt to the use of blood tests to detect active tuberculosis, saying they were faulty and leave millions of people at risk.

Production of the test kits, WHO officials said, was largely by Western companies which export them to developing countries because they have not passed regulatory standards in rich nations.

"Overw

The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Wednesday that millions of blood tests conducted every year to diagnose tuberculosis are unreliable and putting patients

Widely used blood tests to detect tuberculosis are "dangerous" to patients because they are unreliable and can produce wrong results, the World Health Organisation warned Sunday.

PANJIM: Voluntary Health Association of Goa (VHAG) has stepped up efforts as part of its programme to eradicate TB in the state, even as its representatives warned that as many as 40% of the population could be infected with latent TB, while speaking at a three day Training of Trainers workshop which concluded in the city on Wednesday .
VHAG has been chosen to work in North Goa under the Internat

Pabna: Tuberculosis has taken an alarming turn as 56 people died of the disease in the district in last 15 months.

Health is currently a privilege in India. Not a right. Maternal and child health remains neglected even after countless plans, programmes and political proclamations. Every year, nearly 60,000 women die in pregnancy and childbirth, while approximately 1.7 million children less than five years of age also die. In absolute numbers, India outranks all other countries in both regards.