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Polio
South Asia
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2009
Polio drive in SWAT: Children living in Pakistans swat valley were given polio drops after a gap of one year. An emergency polio drive
was launched recently after the conflict-ridden valley reported 13 cases of the viral disease in the past four months. Health officials were denied
access to the valley in the North-West Frontier Province by Taliban militants who consider polio vaccines un-Islamic and a conspiracy to make
Muslim children infertile. Pakistan has confirmed 62 polio cases this year. The country is one of the four along with India, Afghanistan and Nigeria
Universal Immunization Programme
To keep six contagious diseases at bay The programme's mandate is to enhance vaccine production in the country, among others. Started in 1978, it is now part of India's National Rural Health Mission and involves vaccination against six contagious diseases: tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio and measles. Tuberculosis: A bacterial disease; BCG vaccine administered at birth. The vaccine protects from meningitis and TB.News 360° - Briefs
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
land rights
Peru appeases Amazonians
Peru's Congress abolished two decrees by President Alan Garcia that were aimed at opening large areas of the Peruvian Amazon to oil and gas exploration activities, logging and dams.
@vibhavarshney Polio strikes again
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2008
Back in Aurangabad after nine years
South Asia
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2008
Pakistan reports more polio cases: Pakistan reported four polio cases just two days after the much-publicized anti-polio campaign concluded on October 16. Three polio victims are from Punjab and one from the North West Frontier Province. These cases take the number of children incapacitated by the disease this year to 81. Five cases of polio surfaced in the capital city Islamabad, seven in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, 15 in the southern province of Sindh, 22 in Punjab and 32 in nwfp.
News 360 - Brief
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2008
nuclear energy
Private players?
Private players may soon be allowed entry into nuclear energy production. Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said as much minutes before he went in to deliberate on the draft Integrated Energy Policy with the plan panel. The law will, however, have to be amended to allow the private sector to set up nuclear plants, he added.
In Short
Issue Date: May 31, 2008
» Authorities in Pakistan have confirmed one more polio case in Sindh province, bringing the total number of cases to eight in 2008. The country has reported 19 polio cases in the past six months.
South Asia
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2008
Polio resurfaces in Pakistan: Efforts to eradicate polio appear to have taken a blow following confirmation of a third case in Pakistan's Sindh Province this year. The disease was confirmed in a 16-month-old child in Shikarpur district, Sindh, on March 21. Following this, the health ministry launched a three-day campaign in Shikarpur and the two adjacent districts of Larkana and Kambar. The government has announced that it will cover all districts of Sindh during the next anti-polio drive scheduled for April.
Polio vaccination strategy under scanner
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2008
india's National Polio Surveillance Programme reported 471 polio cases until December 14, 2007. Although this is lower
than the 676 cases reported in 2006, there is reason for concern. There has been a sharp rise in the number of polio cases caused by a particular
virus strain-- p3--which was thought to be under control. Around 402 polio cases caused by the p3 strain were reported this year, up from 28 in 2006. Health experts say shifting to monovalent vaccine--which protects from
