-The Times of India NEW DELHI: There are around 26 lakh tuberculosis patients in India while the estimated mortality attributable to the disease is 2.4 lakh, minister of state for health Shripad Naik told Rajya Sabha on Thursday quoting estimates of World Health Organisation. He also sAid the numbers of patients who died at Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) centres during the 2013-14 was 41,956. "According to the World Health Organization, the estimated number of...
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Green plan for highways: 1% project cost to be set aside to plant trees -Anil Sasi & Sharmistha Mukherjee
-The Indian Express Planting fruit-bearing trees specific to the region can Aid revenue generation The road ministry has finalised a “green highways” policy to “tree-line” 140,000 kilometres of national highways. Under this policy, one per cent of the civil cost of national highway development projects will have to be set aside for the planting of trees in a planned manner, covering both existing NH sections and new routes that would be added...
More »Funding crisis puts India's AidS programme, and lives, at risk
-Reuters NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: India's fight against AidS is being jeopardized by a cut in social spending by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, with health workers being lAid off and programmes to prevent the spread of the deadly disease curtailed. With about 2.1 million people infected with HIV in 2013, India has the most cases in the Asia-Pacific, according to the World Health Organization, but new infections have fallen more than 20 percent...
More »Shortage of free condoms perils AidS control drive
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Government may face some tough questions during the monsoon session of Parliament with its ambitious national AidS control program in jeopardy due to the lack of funds. At least 15 states have reported severe shortage of free condoms, while five to six of them have announced they are out of stock, sources sAid. Though shortages have been continuing for over a year now, many states like...
More »Here's proof that poor get gallows, rich mostly escape -Himanshi Dhawan & Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The fact that our legal system is skewed against the poor and marginalized is well-known. And to that extent, it's only expected that they get harsher punishment than the rich. But here are figures that tell the full story. A first of its kind study, which has analyzed data from interviews with 373 death row convicts over a 15-year period, has found three-fourths of those given...
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