India has asked the World Health Organisation to explain media reports that swine flu was a “false pandemic”. Union health secretary K Sujatha Rao pointed out in Geneva that such news reports were adversely impacting the public health measures being undertaken by various countries More...

Acknowledging the scarcity of qualified doctors in rural India, the central government has decided to introduce a three-and-a-half-year medical course for doctors who will be posted at primary health centres and sub-centres that are currently manned by only one auxiliary nurse midwife More...

Project Concern International has gone beyond talking about HIV/AIDS to helping affected people earn a living. Forty-five per cent of its staff is HIV-positive More...

India has slipped behind all of Africa and Asia in combating measles, delaying action to bolster immunisation against the infection that kills an estimated 160,000 children in the country every year, say medical experts More...

It has been a year since former Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss put his foot down about smoking in public and made it a punishable offence. But, neither has there been an effective ban nor has the awareness programme brought about any significant change among smokers More...

A large human trial for the AIDS vaccine in Thailand has, for the first time, prevented HIV from spreading in 31.2% of those vaccinated More...

The Indian government denies that the country has ‘missed the bus’ in the ongoing global trial of H1N1 flu vaccine, while announcing that one company has positively responded to its proposal for conducting human trials on Indians for ‘bridge study’ so that the vaccine could be made available in the country sometime between December 2009- February 2010 More...

Only a quarter of those in need of HIV treatment in the Asia-Pacific region are getting it. Around 4,000 experts have gathered in Bali to discuss and strategise on how to take the fight against AIDS further More...

A 14-year-old girl in Pune, Maharashtra, has become the country’s first swine flu-related death. Overall, India has reported 558 cases of swine flu, says the health ministry More...

The Maharashtra government has been slow in enforcing patients’ rights and legislation to regulate nursing homes, leaving it to NGOs like the Jan Arogya Abhiyan to set up a patients’ forum and draw up a charter of rights More...

The spread of the H1N1 virus to 74 countries, including India, has raised the alert level sounded by the world health body, which is a signal to governments to intensify efforts to deal with the disease More...

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