Govt ropes in private hospitals to combat tuberculosis

(PPI-OT): Budget Speech Honourable Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to Almighty Allah and people of Sindh for having bestowed upon me the honour and privilege to stand before this Honourable house and to present this first peoples Budget, after ...

"People actually talk these days about a potential return to the "pre-antibiotic era" where we no longer have effective tools to treat serious infectious disease. Clearly, we must encourage more judicious use of these important drugs through ...

"Country ownership" has been one of the core principles of the Global Fund since it was created in 2002. The Fund's Framework Document says: "The Global Fund will base its work on programs that reflect national ownership and respect country-led ...

Health News: AMAI urges Kerala govt to give due importance to Ayurveda in state health policy, requesting that Dr Sam Pitroda's proposal for an Ayurveda mission in Kerala should be given prominence in the state's new health policy. The Ayurveda ...

Re conducted in partnership between UAB and the Jefferson County Department of Health (JCDH) recently cured 22 of 22 patients of gonorrhea, a finding that could lead to the first new antibiotic treatment for the sexually transmitted disease in more ...

Major donor initiatives to combat HIV along with increasing in-country commitments to curb the epidemic have facilitated rapid HIV treatment scale-up in low- and middle-income countries.1 However, although a minority of countries have achieved ...

Soligenix, Inc. (OTCQB: SNGX), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing products to treat inflammatory diseases and biodefense countermeasures where there remains an unmet medical need, announced today it will jointly develop ...

Despite overwhelming evidence from around the world on positive health benefits of enforcing smoke-free policies, countries in South and South-East Asia are yet to achieve desired enforcement of smoke-free laws. More political will and strategic ...

The most serious human rights abuses were those tied to a lack of justice: judicial inefficiency and corruption, lengthy pretrial detention, denial of due process, and harsh prison conditions. Violence against women and children, including rape and ...