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India National Health Policy 2017

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India (2017) C1

Institutional capacity and training needs assessment for the feed the future initiative in Nepal

Crawford E., Suvedi M. Michigan State University, USAID (2010) C1

India's Healthcare System - Overview and Quality Improvements

Growth Analysis Studentplan (2013) CC

Situation Analysis Antibiotic Use and Resistance in India

Public Health Foundation India (2011) C2

The infectious disease burden in India is among the highest in the world. A large amount of antibiot-ics are consumed in fighting infections, some of them saving lives, but every use adding to antib ... iotic resistance in bacteria. Antibiotic use is increasing steadily (table 1), particularly certain antibiotic classes (beta-lactam antibacterials), most notably in the more prosperous states. Resistance follows in lock-step. more

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Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study

GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborator The Lancet (2020) CC

COVID-19 Vaccine Operational Guidelines

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (2020) C1

Updated 28 December 2020

Kerala Antimicrobial Resistance Strategic Action Plan (KARSAP)

Department of Agriculture Development & Farmers Welfare; Health & Family Welfare, Government of Kerala (2018) C1

One health Response to AMR Containment. In a significant move for the public health sector, Kerala has become the first state in India to launch an action plan to combat the growing cases of antimicrobial immunity, arising primarily from irrational ... use of medicines and excessive antibiotics used in livestock and poultry. more

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A double dose of inequality; Pharma companies and the Covid-19 vaccines crisis

Amnesty International (2022) C2

22 Sept. 2021 The rapid development of effective Covid-19 vaccines in 2020 gave hope to the world in the darkest days of the deadly pandemic. However, the vaccine roll-out has been massively skewed ... towards wealthy nations. While rich states have hoarded vaccines, companies have also played a decisive role in restricting fair access to a life-saving health product. This report focuses on six leading vaccine developers, AstraZeneca, BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer, assessing each company’s human rights policy, pricing structure, records on intellectual property, knowledge and technology sharing, allocation of available vaccine doses and transparency. Available in Arabic, English, French, German and Spanish more

Bending The Curve ending TB. Annual Report 2017

World Health Organization, South-East Asia (2017) C_WHO

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Elimination of human rabies in Goa, India through an integrated One Health approach

Gibson, A.; Yale, G.; Corfmat, J.; et al. nature communications (2022) CC

Rabies is a devastating and societally important zoonotic disease, which is transmitted principally to humans through the bite of infected dogs. This acute, progressive viral encephalitis has the highest case fatality ... of any infectious disease and kills tens of thousands of people annually, with children and impoverished communities being affected disproportionately. more