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Time to build climate-resilient health systems
News, Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Published on 07/09/2017
» Climate change is happening. In recent years average temperatures across the globe have increased, with significant impact on humanity's most precious resource, the environment. Water systems are being stressed. Food sources are being imperiled. And areas once safe for settlement are being threatened and erased.
Inclusive measures needed to end leprosy forever
News, Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Published on 30/01/2017
» There are many diseases that medicine is yet to cure. Diabetes is one. Polio is another. Even for asthma, a respiratory disease common in both developed and developing countries, management is the only course possible.
Looking toward mosquito-free monsoon seasons
News, Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Published on 20/08/2016
» Mosquitoes are a pest with no equal. Though not all mosquitoes transmit life-threatening diseases, those that do kill approximately 725,000 people worldwide every year. When not fatal, the diseases mosquitoes spread can result in bouts of debilitating fever, nausea and vomiting, compromising immune systems and disrupting economies. The WHO South-East Asia Region is particularly affected.
A new generation is being born HIV-free in Thailand
News, Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Published on 09/06/2016
» Thailand's elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission will help end the country's ongoing epidemic, and signifies the importance of realising universal health coverage.