New Delhi: Impressed with India's successful effort in polio eradication, Pakistan is keen to emulate the model to achieve polio-free status even as it allayed fears of exporting the virus to the Indian side. A nine-member Pakistani delegation on Thursday met India's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and senior officials of the Ministry and took tips on the polio eradication programme. "We are learning from your country. We hope that...
10:29 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Bill Gates met Rotary International India on Thursday in New Delhi on his three day visit to the country where he is expected to meet a number of Government functionaries before heading to Bangalore for a discussion on philanthropy with India's industrial leaders. Gates met Rotary leaders " Rajendra K Saboo, Past President, Rotary International , Ashok M Mahajan, Trustee & Member, International PolioPlus Committee and Deepak Kapur,...
06:59 PM, May 31, 2012
Hyderabad: Ella Foundation has won a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a virus against polio after the phasing out of the oral poliovirus (OPV) vaccine, the Hyderabad-based scientific research group said on Thursday. "Such a vaccine could carry the beneficial effects of an oral polio vaccine - namely safety, efficacy, ease of manufacture, distribution and administration along with the safety...
01:50 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Pulse polio program may be a success, but are experts focusing too much on vaccination? Perhaps even overdosing some children? Shortly after being vaccinated for polio, four-year-old Ansh developed paralysis. Doctors concluded it wasn't related to the vaccine or polio, which often causes paralysis. A few months on, Ansh is better now. But some doctors are sounding a warning note. In a study published in the Indian...
09:24 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is Unicef's brand ambassador against polio, says he will be honoured for his contribution to the cause. "And the organisation that acknowledges social work for a cause, will honour yours truly for the work done as UNICEF ambassador for the fight against polio, which as you know has had some rather encouraging achievements," Amitabh wrote on his blog bigb.bigadda.com. In February, the World Health Organisation...
04:38 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Laying emphasis on strengthening of routine immunisation, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the lessons learnt from success of polio campaign could help eliminate measles-related child deaths and neonatal tetanus from the country. In his valedictory address at the two-day Polio Summit here today, Azad said there has to be continued vigil and effective emergency preparedness as India cannot afford to let its guards now on the...
10:40 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad made the announcement after most of the environmental samples for polio virus tested negative for the first time in 2010. ...
01:29 PM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 in New Delhi in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Azad said he has received a letter this morning stating that the "WHO has taken India's name...
11:26 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Howrah: India has completed one entire year without registering a single polio case in any part of the country. Bringing down the number from 2 lakh a year to zero is a commendable achievement and an example before other countries to follow. But there is hardly any room for complacency. Two-and-a-half-year-old Ruksaar from Shahpara village in Howrah district is the last registered case of polio in India, and the credit ...
07:18 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Islamabad: India must receive "due appreciation" as it has been a year since its last case of polio was reported, said a leading Pakistani daily. An editorial in the Dawn on Saturday said that India is marking the passage of a full year since its last case of polio was reported. "If this trend continues, and no new or previously undisclosed case of the dreaded virus is reported, the country...
11:20 AM, Jan 14, 2012
India has completed one year without a single case of polio and the WHO has said that other countries need to emulate. ...
11:27 PM, Jan 13, 2012
On India Positive, India completes a year without any polio case and a policeman fines a Home Ministry official. ...
11:18 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Can you imagine a country that added 200000 crippled children each year? Little children. Under 5 years of age. Those who just wanted to spend ...
07:51 PM, Jan 13, 2012
WHO India Representative Dr Nata Manabde has congratulated India on its no-new-polio cases milestone, saying that India was ahead of prediction. "It's a major milestone. India's ahead of prediction. It has made a huge difference. Two years India had the largest number of cases more than other countries put together. Size and scale were the challenge. India is no longer a threat to other countries," he said. ...
12:45 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Washington: The United Nations, leading world organisations, including the Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation celebrated India's first polio-free year and termed it as a major milestone in their fight against this dreaded disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan, termed it as the "greatest public health achievement" of India, the Bill Gates, of Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation described it as a major milestone in the global fight...
09:10 AM, Jan 13, 2012
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