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Bharat Biotech COVID-19 vaccine claimed to have 80.6% efficacy
'Shot well tolerated in participants; adverse events balanced between vaccine and placebo arms of the trial'
African swine fever: Forgotten contagion
Viruses, it seems, are at war with life forms. While the world is struggling with the novel coronavirus, another one has been killing pigs, …
Expenditure on treatment of mental illness pushes 20% Indian households into poverty, finds new study
Critical need to provide financial risk protection to reduce the monetary impact of healthcare expenditure on mental illness among households in …
India's Health Crisis
Insufficient allocation for the health sector pushing 7% of Indians below the poverty line and about 23% of the sick can't afford healthcare
COVID-19: Why India needs a robust public health infrastructure
While we need public health professionals to work in development sector, we can also train them in epidemiology to help create a …
International Youth Day: Education needs transforming for children’s mental health
The younger generation has to be equipped with resilience and ability to handle pressures and challenges by inculcating academic excellence and …
More than half the world's population does not receive essential health care services
Under such circumstances, achieving universal health coverage by 2030 seems like an ambitious target
Electing India’s health transformation
The new government must convene a meeting of central and state health ministers annually, to build consensus across the political spectrum and …
Infographic: India lacks rural health centres, human resources to run them
As on March 31,2021, health centres at all three levels are catering to more population than recommended
No integration in India’s disease data collection systems: Niti Aayog
White paper highlights several lacunae including shortage of human resources, occupational health, surveillance; suggests series of measures …
Less out-of-pocket expenditure for births in public facilities in rural areas, NFHS-5 finds
The latest figures suggest that Manipur spends more OOPE in both rural and urban areas, whereas Gujarat spends less among states and Dadra and …
AMR, flu pandemic again top WHO’s list of health challenges for 2020
UN body also lists newer challenges related to adolescents, emerging technologies and food among others
Inequalities in accessing sexual, reproductive healthcare persist: WHO study
Rates of unintended pregnancies, abortions vary widely within the same region and geographies, it says
New WHO / ILO guide urges greater safeguards to protect health workers
The joint publication encourages countries to strengthen the protection of health workers by improving the management of occupational health and …
Primary health care, community health workers bag spotlight at WHA
The member states decided to implement Declaration of Astana and allocate adequate resources to support community health workers
WHO member states agree on $6.83 billion funding for 2 years; most ambitious yet
Historic 20% increase in assessed contributions after deliberations at 75th World Health Assembly
A cancer centre is the latest victim of cyber attacks. Why health data hacks keep happening
Nearly half of these ransomware attacks disrupted the health-care services, with impacts including electronic system downtime, cancellations of …
Mental illness in Africa: Go for community-centred approach, advise experts
Africa has very few psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers working in mental health and psychiatric nurses
Behind the curve: How COVID-19 exposed India’s apathetic rural health infrastructure
It should not have taken a pandemic for the government to realise the importance of the rural healthcare infrastructure and of universal free …
Child health programme failed to deliver in 100 countries: WHO
A paper presented at the Alma Ata declaration said less than half of the women in the world get the four mandatory ante-natal check-ups done
WHO launches new five-year plan for universal health coverage
This three-point strategy aims at ensuring that 1 billion people get health coverage, are better protected from emergencies and enjoy wellbeing …
India is committed to achieving universal health coverage, says Nadda
At the 71st World Health Assembly, the Union minister spoke about India’s efforts to provide more people with access to health services
Parliamentary committee flags concerns over ‘grossly insufficient’ funding for department of health research
The committee also noted that the demand was much lower compared to Rs 3,467.65 crore demanded for 2022-2023
How international scientific collaborators sideline African researchers
Scientists from sub-Saharan Africa writing research papers on health in their own countries are often not named first or senior author, finds a study