A Cambodian group has developed a pioneering community-based approach to HIV and TB care and research. Amy Maxmen describes how this powerful model is being expanded to other war-torn countries.

South Asia, a region of strategic importance, faces public health challenges on a demographic and geographic scale unmatched in the world. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are home to nearly one-fifth of the world’s population.  Even more dramatic, however, these countries are home to two-thirds of the world’s population living on less than $1 a day.

KOLKATA, 29 JUNE: A report published by the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has revealed that the state government has no separate programme for malnourished children and there is also a lack of monitoring agency to supervise the quality of food that is being provided by the aganwandi workers to the mothers of these malnourished children.

Mumbai: Even as the city

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Clinical trials by the Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre here showed that a drug-based TB treatment administered to patients living at their homes and those in the in sanatoria threw up identical results.

The study called

The US has selected Bangladesh as one of the eight 'Global Health Initiative (GHI) Plus' countries.

As part of this global initiative, the US is investing $63 billion over six years to help partner countries improve health outcomes through strengthened health systems -- with a particular focus on improving the health of women, newborns and children by providing quality health services and comba

Human migration has had a major effect on the spread of tuberculosis throughout the course of human history. In modern times, geographic barriers have been easily overcome, and mass migration reached unprecedented levels in the latter half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. Nearly 1 billion

Tuberculosis may no longer be perceived as the mass killer disease, yet even today a patient dies of it in India every minute. Thus a new breakthrough in TB control is heartening news. That the innovative research is the brainchild of the nation

Rajahmundry, May 31: Though health authorities are able to detect new cases of tuberculosis by involving health workers in villages advising people suffering with continuous cough to approach a health centre for diagnosis, they are facing a gigantic task to persuade TB patients on treatment to continue it until they get relief and also to bring down the number of fatalities in both East and West G

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Surat:To safeguard the health of thousands of artisans working in the agate stone processing industry in Khambhat region, the Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) plans to provide financial and other aid to them for setting up a non-hazardous stone processing system.

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