WHO to launch worlds first malaria vaccine in Africa

The worlds first malaria vaccine is to be made available in selected areas of Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi under a […]

World Toilet Day: Flush away inertia and ignorance

Almost 2 billion people use excrementally polluted water, which poses not only a global health risk, but also flushes away […]

e-Healthcare in Africa endowed with the muscle of mobility: July 2007 Issue

  EDITORIAL Technology for Health is the Emerging Mantra COVER STORY Ambient Wireless Networks for Sub-Saharan Africas Health System Adesina Iluyemi TECHNOLOGY […]

Maternal deaths fall 34%, but still 1,000 women die every day in India

Deaths from complications during pregnancy and childbirth have fallen by a third in the past two decades but 1,000 women still die needlessly every day, the World Health Organisation said recently.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Signs Expand Access to Reyataz (atazanavir sulfate) in sub-Saharan Africa and India

Bristol Myers Squibb Company today announced a new agreement to expand access to Reyataz (atazanavir sulfate).

Poor countries losing out on family planning benefits: New World Bank Report findings

A new World Bank report titled Population Issues in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank, released recently warns that poor countries, wealthy donors, and aid agencies are losing sight of the value of contraception, family planning, and other reproductive health programs so as to boost economic growth, and reduce high birth rates which are strongly linked with endemic poverty, poor education, and high numbers of maternal and infant deaths.

Snapshot of India’s Development Deficits

As is well known, income or consumption poverty is often used as shorthand to capture economic wellbeing of people. However, there is almost a consensus view among social scientists by now that such a view of poverty is too narrow and it is absolutely necessary to go beyond hunger and malnutrition and include several other features in conceptualising poverty, such as deprivation (or poor access) in terms of clothing, shelter, basic social services including primary health care, sanitation, education, shelter etc., political powerlessness, socio-cultural marginalisation and exclusion, among others. By any reckoning, development deficits in India are huge in terms of attaining the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals).

Indian Vaccine for meningitis

Indian made vaccine for meningitis has saved 250 million lives in Africa by the efforts of World Health Organization (WHO) and PATH, an NGO.

Faith-based organizations play major role in fighting HIV/AIDS

Faith-based organisations play a critical role in HIV-AIDS care and treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by 2010, according to a new United Nations study.

New World Bank Action Plan – to help developing world achieve MDG 5 targets by 2015

The World Bank has released a new five-year plan to help poor countries reduce their high fertility rates and prevent the widespread deaths of their mothers and children.

Cell phones-a tool to beat HIV-AIDS in Africa

Mobile phones may be a key weapon in the war against HIV and AIDS in Africa according to the UNAIDS chief. Mobile phone technology has a key role to play in a continent plagued by inadequate health centres and dilapidated infrastructure as this kind of epidemic cannot be beat with mere facility based approach.

Perfect vision for health informatics

Representatives of international and regional e-health advocacy groups are meeting at the Wellcome Trust in London this week to agree plans for building

Smart Connected Hospitals

[This article was published in the December 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

As the population in India and around the world age and there is increased acuity, it presents an opportunity and a challenge to healthcare administrators.