India to carry out children's tuberculosis count
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India is to survey 300,000 children for tuberculosis to gauge the effectiveness of its strategy to control the disease, a report has said.
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India plans to recruit one young man   and woman from every large village in the country to over the   next five years teach their peers about safe sex and HIV, a   health official said on Wednesday.
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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Pima County health officials are testing five people from Tucson who were co-passengers with a man now quarantined and under treatment in Denver for a rare, dangerous strain of tuberculosis.
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A nationwide polio vaccination campaign begins in India as part of the global UN drive to eradicate the virus.
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International AIDS specialists and Indian health officials revealed new data showing that India has 2.5 million people infected with HIV, about half the previous estimate by world health officials. But the Indian government said it still plans to move aggressively to fight the disease, pledging $1.95 billion for a new round of its AIDS control program ...
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The World Health Organization   urged South Africa on Thursday to act quickly to stamp out a   highly-resistant (WHO) form of tuberculosis that has killed at   least 52 people and could spread fast.
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Nearly half of India's children are malnourished, putting the country in the same league as some of the world's poorest countries &#151; even though fewer infants are dying and more pregnant Indian women are seeing doctors, according to government data released Friday.
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A rapid and accurate test for TB could cut infection rates around the world, say experts.
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A low-cost antibiotic which has  performed well in tests should be given to all HIV children in  developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia  and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
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U.S. government researchers launched the biggest-ever study of children on Tuesday, saying they will track 100,000 children from birth through age 21 to see what makes kids sick.
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Scientists have devised a blood test for tuberculosis which they hope will help doctors in the developing world.
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Health workers have begun a drive across Bangladesh to immunise 24 million children under five against polio to combat the crippling virus that has staged a comeback in the South Asian nation.
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Worldwide, it is estimated that more than 22 million children under five years old are obese or overweight, and more than 17 million of them are in developing countries.
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NEW YORK  - If tuberculosis is not detected  in patients being treated for cancer, it can easily spread to  other hospitalized cancer patients, a new report shows.
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Public health officials urged the passengers and crew of the two recent trans-Atlantic flights to get checked for tuberculosis.
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Developing countries, especially in Asia, must promote healthy lifestyles from childhood to halt rising obesity and heart disease rates, medical experts said on Thursday.
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U.S. health officials are trying to track down 44 people who sat near a woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis aboard an airliner from India to determine whether they have been infected, authorities said on Friday.