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Amitabh Bachchan, Ratan Tata Promote TB-Free India

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and renowned business tycoon Ratan Tata on Thursday lent support to the government’s “Call to Action for a TB-Free India”. Both ...

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Health

Mothers Helping Mothers To Live With H.I.V.

When Teresa Njeri got pregnant in 2001 in Kiambu, a suburb of Nairobi, it was the end of the world.   She was joyous about the pregnancy — but an AIDS test showe...

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Sustainable Development

Can We Finance Sustainable Development?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most comprehensive international poverty alleviation movement in history. Since 1990, extreme poverty has been cut by ...

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Health

What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

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Health

Mumbai: Since 2010, 40% Rise In Maternal Deaths; TB Top Killer

Maternal deaths in Mumbai have increased 40% over the past five years. Data from the civic body, which records these deaths every month, revealed that the top cause of mate...

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Health

Antibiotic Resistance A Big Threat To TB Treatment In India

A joint initiative of the government, independent experts and civil society has found that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is emerging as a major health problem i...

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Health

Government To Launch Toll-Free Helpline For Tuberculosis Patients

Seeking to reach out to tuberculosis patients, the government today said that it will launch a toll-free helpline, whereby even a missed call would suffice to connect them ...

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Health

Fighting TB With A Drive-In Film And Test

Some lives hang on the distance of dusty roads, with a cure out of reach. Take tuberculosis, an ancient disease that still kills about 4,100 people each day around the worl...

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Health

Genital TB leading To Infertility Among 25-30% Women In India

NEW DELHI: Female genital tuberculosis is fast emerging as a major health issue that affects fertility levels in women. Doctors say tuberculosis is a major cause of infecti...

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Health

Renew Efforts To Rid Planet Of TB, UN Chief Urges Governments

Approximately 37 million lives have been saved between 2000 and 2013 through the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and it is possible to end the epidemic by 2035...

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