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Respiratory Diseases in India (Pneumonia and Tuberculosis)
Image: Incidence of childhood clinical pneumonia at the country level from WHO This page is part of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in India post I will limit this discussion to pneumonia and tuberculosis (which isn’t solely respiratory) for the sake of brevity. PNEUMONIA Pneumonia is the leading global killer of children under five, responsible for almost 1.6 million […]
Other Pediatric Diseases in India (Malaria and HIV)
Image is of the Anopheles mosquito, the main insect vector of Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of Malraria via the CDC This post is a continuation of Pediatric Diseases in India (part 4). MALARIA “Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that affects more than 500 million people annually, causing between 1 and 3 million deaths. It is most common […]
Diarrheal Diseases in India (Cholera and Rotavirus)
The image “Pathways to Diarrhea” comes from the CDC. This post is a continuation of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases in India post. Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old. It is both preventable and treatable. Diarrheal disease kills 1.5 million children every year and account for >10% if child […]
Pediatric Infectious Diseases in India
This is the first in a series of five posts leading up to my trip to India to examine issues of child survival with the International Reporting Project via Johns Hopkins University with significant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. For the duration of the trip, I am to consider my self a New Media […]
Why am I going to India?
I will be leaving in just a matter of days to go to India with the International Reporting Project as a New Media Journalist to examine the issues of child survival. We will be in Mumbai, Nagpur, and New Delhi with visits to rural and slum areas. The IRP has a full schedule for the ten of […]
Childhood Vaccines in India, Part 1
Part 1: How vaccines are made and how they work In 2008, WHO estimated that 1.5 million of deaths among children under 5 years were due to diseases that could have been prevented by routine vaccination. This represents 17% of global total mortality in children under 5 years of age. Hygiene, proper nourishment and sanitary […]
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