Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is now at record levels with Asia bearing the brunt of the epidemic, says the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) in a report released today that also calls for better diagnosis of the disease. In some parts of the world, one in four people with TB becomes ill with a form of the disease that can no longer be treated with standard drugs, according to WHO’s...
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Every day, 1.1bn people poo without a loo by Kounteya Sinha
This is one world No. 1 tag that 'emerging India' would love to shed. Indians comprised 58% of all people across the world who regularly defecated in the open in 2008. That's more than half the Indian population (54%), a WHO-UNICEF report said. While 18% of urban India indulged in the practice, the percentage was as high as 69% in rural parts of the country. Globally, 1.1 billion people still...
More »UN health body issues first-ever guidelines on procuring safe malaria medicines
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today issued new guidelines for malaria treatment, marking the first time the agency has released guidance on procuring safe and effective medicines to treat the disease. The agency warned that if not used properly, artemisinin-based combination therapy, known as ACTs, which have transformed treatment in recent years, could become ineffective. “The world now has the means to rapidly diagnose malaria and treat it...
More »One billion could miss sanitation goal without boost to efforts, say UN agencies
With five years to go before the deadline for halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) warn in a report released today that without stepped-up efforts, nearly one billion people will be overlooked. “We all recognize the vital importance of water and sanitation to human health and well-being and their role...
More »Train women for better crop, says report by Simantik Dowerah
Even as women agriculturalists form more than half of the total global population involved in farming it is actually the men folk who continue to receive better training leaving the other gender behind and poverty index screwed up, claimed a report released on Thursday. The report Training for Rural Development: Agriculture and Enterprise Skills for Women by City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development said developing countries can tackle poverty...
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