What is Colour Blindness
Context: The Supreme Court has directed the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) not to exclude candidates suffering from colour blindness from its courses on film making and editing and asked it to make changes to its curriculum instead. Relevance: GS II- Health Dimensions of the Article: What is colour blindness? What causes colour blindness? What […]
World Health Day
Focus: GS II- Health Why in News? April 7 of each year marks the celebration of World Health Day. Background: From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern […]
Measures to Address Malnutrition Among Women and Children
Focus: GS II- Health Why in News? The Government has accorded high priority to the issue of malnutrition and is making serious efforts to address this issue. Poshan Abhiyaan The term ‘POSHAN’ in the name of the programme stands for ‘Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nutrition’. POSHAN Abhiyaan launched in 2018 aims at improving […]
Why WHO suspended Covaxin?
Context: Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that it has suspended the supply of Covaxin through UN procurement agencies and recommended to countries that received the vaccine to take actions as “appropriate”. Relevance: GS II- Health Dimensions of the Article Why has the WHO taken this step now? What did the WHO inspection find? Why did the company not […]
Corbevax
Context: The Centre has opened up Covid-19 vaccination for children between the ages of 12 and 14, allowing them to receive Corbevax, a vaccine against Covid-19 that is manufactured by Hyderabad-based Biological-E. Corbevax is India’s first indigenously developed Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) protein sub-unit vaccine. Relevance: GS II- Health Dimensions of the Article: What is Corbevax? What is […]
Xenotransplantation
Context: Recently, A patient whose failing heart had been replaced with the heart of a genetically altered pig in a landmark surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Centre in Baltimore, United States, died, two months after the operation. Relevance: GS III- Science and Technology, GS II- Health Dimensions of the Article: What is xenotransplantation? Why the heart […]
Pal-Dadhvav Massacre
Context: Recently, the Gujarat government marked 100 years of the Pal-Dadhvav killings, calling it a massacre “bigger than the Jallianwala Bagh”. Before this, the incident had been featured on the state’s Republic Day tableau. Relevance: GS II- History Dimensions of the Article: About Pal-Dadhvav massacre: Who was Tejawat Tribal population About Pal-Dadhvav massacre: The Pal-Dadhvav […]
National Polio Immunization Drive for 2022
Context: Minister for Health and Family Welfare launched the National Polio Immunization Drive for 2022 by administering polio drops to children below five years of age in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Relevance: GS II- Health Dimensions of the Article: About Polio National Immunization Drive and Polio National Immunization Day 2022 (NID) : […]
Leprosy
Context: According to the latest report by the Leprosy Mission Trust India, the Covid-19 pandemic and its ensuing recommendations on social distancing and lockdowns caused a fall of 62.5% in the detection of active leprosy cases between April and September 2020 in four States — Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. Relevance: GS II- Health Dimensions of the Article: What is Leprosy? What are the […]
Pandemic and Endemic
Context: People with Covid-19 will no longer legally need to isolate in United Kingdom and the tests are likely to be scaled back as part of a plan to live with Covid-19. California too has announced a shift to an endemic approach to Covid-19 that will focus on watching out for new variants and reacting quickly to […]