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Sehatmandi Program, the country’s largest health project, is hindered by a lack of adequate funding. The project was previously funded by a grant of $140 million from the International Development Association, and by $425 million from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund. Ragini Varadarajan The ‘heart of Asia,’ Afghanistan, is on the brink of economic collapse since the Taliban took over the country in August last year. Hunger has hit 95 percent of the population with the new government finding it increasingly challenging to decide ‘who to save and who to let die,’ according to a statemen...
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The overall vaccination rate in China stands at nearly 88 percent. But only about half of those over 80 and 48% of those over 60 have received two vaccinations N Ahmad As Chinese authorities are determined to adhere to the zero Covid policy in Shanghai, the elderly unvaccinated people are becoming a towering obstacle to easing Covid-19 restriction imposed on March 28. Ten deaths of Covid -19 patients in Shanghai were reported on April 18 and April 19 causing panic in the city which has a low vaccination rate among provincial regions. On April 19, Shanghai reported seven deaths among the elderl...
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Forty six percent of the 1.7 million children infected with HIV in 2020 had no access to life-saving treatments. Fatima Majid HIV has infected more than 75 million people and caused the death of around 30 million people since the epidemic began 40 years ago. In 2020, the number was 37 million, out of which more than 20 million – 54 per cent – were women and children. Kruxd examines recent trends in HIV cases and treatment for this demographic around the world. Is everyone getting treatment?AIDS management primarily includes the use of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) which has been in use for 35 y...
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Preliminary results from the ongoing nationwide health needs assessment indicate that of the 1000 households that have responded so far, two in five have at least one member with a chronic illness, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes or cancer. Health Analytics Web Desk Two months into the war in Ukraine, a WHO survey shows the public health system in the country is struggling, with 162 attacks verified against it so far. Infectious diseases, and particularly waterborne diseases, are common, and routine vaccination, such as COVID-19 vaccination, has been affected by the war, the survey re...
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While effective states are well-placed to tackle their problems, an efficient response to the pandemic is also about how laxly or strictly these states implement their authority, capacity and legitimacy RIYAZ WANI More than one million people have died and over 81 million have been infected so far in the United States, the highest such figure in the world. This is despite the fact that the US ranks eleventh in healthcare in the world, according to 2021 research by the Commonwealth Fund which studied healthcare systems of eleven high-income countries. Similarly, France which ranked at No 8 has ...
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The three-week campaign aims to reach all children between 15 months and 15 years to quickly achieve wider protection from the disease N Ahmad Nepal has decided to immunize 7.5 million children against typhoid this year, a move that is drawing praise from across the world with experts saying the country has maintained its pre-pandemic routine vaccination levels. “Nepal has maintained its pre-pandemic routine vaccination levels, 82%, while reaching 83% of COVID vaccination coverage for 12+ population. How? Investing in Primary Health Care and supporting female community volunteers,” tweeted Pal...
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The recent surge in Coronavirus cases in China, although small compared to some other countries, is a significant challenge to China’s zero-Covid strategy. N Ahmad China’s commercial capital, Shanghai, is now a ghost town. The city is one of the worst-hit regions in the country facing a resurgence of the Covid-19 virus. Robot dogs and drones patrol Shanghai’s streets and the skies, respectively, enforcing a strict lockdown on the city’s 26 million residents. Robot dogs ask residents to stay indoors. Drones fly around. They come close to those they spot outside asking them to return to their ho...
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As parts of the world witness fresh outbreaks of Covid-19 infections, vaccination remains the most common pandemic management approach. Kruxd looks at the numbers behind the global disparity in the availability of COVID vaccinations. By Bhargavi Saikia Fifteen months since the first-ever shot of the COVID vaccine was administered, about 58 per cent of the world’s population is fully vaccinated. However, this number hides the disparity in the level of vaccination in different regions of the world. The great divide As the race to vaccinate people against COVID-19 continues, many countries have a...
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Nearly a third of the world’s Tuberculosis cases occur in India. Notwithstanding the impact of COVID and financial challenges, the country remains committed to eliminating the disease by 2025 By Tariq Hashmat March 24 is commemorated as World TB Day every year, to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of the disease and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. This World TB Day, Kruxd does some number-crunching about India – the country with the heaviest TB burden in the world – to track its battle with the contagion over the last few ye...
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Taliban’s resurgence to power in August 2021, and the subsequent withdrawal of funding for major health programmes in Afghanistan have posed serious healthcare challenges in the country. By Naseer Ahmad “In Afghanistan, 25 million people have among the world’s worst health and greatest needs…particularly hard hit by Afghanistan’s 23 years of war, civil strife and Taliban misrule, are Afghan women, who are experiencing – what health officials call – ”catastrophic” death rates associated with pregnancy and childbirth — the world’s worst,” reads the NYT report of October 2002. Now the September 2...
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