Bless your Child with a Disease Free World

Are there kids less than 12 years of old at home? It is a must read for you!

More than one million parents with children less than 12 years old created history by registering in the world’s largest immunization programme alert on the eve of ‘WHO Immunization Week’ to close the immunization gap in the country.

With the help of an SMS message, parents should send their child’s name and date of birth to ‘national short code 566778’ so that they receive SMS alerts until the child attains 12 years. This vaccination registration programme is meant to eradicate certain dreadful diseases that can be preventable with victimization, including pneumonia, diarrhea, diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis, measles and tetanus. The SMS registration is at no cost incurring to the user.

Malaria Free World with Awareness

World Malaria Day is observed on 25^th April with a theme “End Malaria for Good” and the World Health Assembly has set a Global Technical strategy to eliminate Malaria totally from this planet by 2030, reducing the number of cases by 90% with a special emphasis ending Malaria deaths.

End Malaria for Good

Despite  the WHO report of World Malaria Report 2015 notifies a drastic reduction in Malaria cases across the globe, 3-2 million people are still in the risk of getting affected by it and Sub-Saharan Africa is worst affected in this case. 22% of the Indian population lives transmission area and only 11% of the Indian population free from Malaria.

Malaria can be preventable and creating awareness on what causes Malaria and the measures that need to be taken goes a long way in reducing the incidents. This threatening disease is caused by parasites and mosquitoes, particularly female mosquitoes are the carriers of Malaria parasites. So keep your surroundings clean and take measures to stop the mosquito breeding. Governments must strengthen local governments with enough funds for sanitation and the government primary healthcare centers must be equipped with the basic diagnostic and medical facilities to stop it early. 

Zika Demands more money - NIH

Funding from US Health department helped to start Zika vaccine research by Fauci, Further he extended a new Zika support. Stating that it’s enough to begun not enough to get a finished product. 

The NIH invests nearly $32.3 billion annually in medical research for their citizen. Out of $32.30  billion, 589 $ million or more than 80% of the NIH's funding has been granted to 0.3 million researchers of more than 2500 universities all over the globe. 10% of the NIH budget supports its own lab.

Since it demands more money for the Zika research officials have shifted $47 million of funds from the Ebola research, they used $238 million up to date. 

Researcher of NIH Donovan said fund shift is need of the hour and helps to acute activities such as vector control, Zika diagnosis and vaccines. Supporting Zika ill baby’s and mothers, mapping the epidemiology for the preventive measures.

US Health officials are insisting congress to approve approximately $2 billion emergency Zika funding for the outbreak and to compensate Ebola funds as well.