Hydrocelectomy (hydrocele surgeries) was successfully conducted on no fewer than 837 Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) cases ...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will launch a deworming campaign across the state on February 10, coinciding with the ...

A state-level media sensitisation workshop was organised by the HF&W department in collaboration with the Global Health ...

NTDs, a group of 21 debilitating infectious diseases, affect over 1 billion people globally, causing significant morbidity, disability, and death. These diseases, including visceral leishmaniasis (VL) ...

Deputy Chief Minister Rajendra Shukla reviewed the progress and action plan of the National Filariasis Eradication Programme at State Mantralaya. The Deputy CM directed in the State Task Force meeting ...

In order to prevent lymphatic filariasis, an awareness drive for children of all government schools will be launched. For this, a Mass Drug Administration will be organised by the Health and Family We ...

Ranchi: Jharkhand education department is launching a comprehensive programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis through awareness and medication distr.

Bhubaneswar: More than 16 million children and women in Odisha will get deworming doses during a month-long drive which will ...

Sokoto State Commissioner for Health, Dr Faruk Umar Abubakar, has promised that the state was now in a position to eradicate all tropical diseases.He made the promise while speaking at the 2025 World ...

Parasitic worms are difficult to kill with current therapies, but their commensal bacteria might be their Achilles’ heel.

By Benjamin Makafui Attipoe, Sogakope The Director in-charge of Technical Co-ordination at the Ministry of Health (MOH) and ...