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World Health Organisation (Bharat Biotech Typbar-TCV (Typhoid (caused by…
World Health Organisation
Gabon is a polio free country
Polio
highly infectious viral disease caused by poliovirus
no cure for polio virus, it can only be prevented by immunisation
now disease is prevalent in only two South Asian countries
Pakistan and Afghanistan
specialised agency of UN established in April 1948
succeed Health Organisation
Agency of League of Nations
HQ :red_flag: Geneva, Switzerland
Member of United Nations Development Group
Moscow Declaration 2017
co-ordinated action on TB
End of HIV co-infected deaths by 2030
Bharat Biotech Typbar-TCV
Approved by WHO for Global usage
confers long term protection against typhoid fever
can be given to younger children through routine immunisation programmes
Typhoid
caused by bacterium Salmonella Typhi
infects humans due to contaminated food and beverages from sewage
WHO revises antibiotics protocol
divided the drugs into three categories
access, watch and reserve
specifying which are to be used for common ailments and which are to be kept for complicated diseases
Potent drugs to be used only as a “last resort” fall under the ‘reserve’ category
colistin
when all other alternatives have failed, such as for life-threatening infections due to multidrug-resistant bacteria
GeneXpert
device released which can be used to diagnose TB and HIV infections
Co-infection is when a person suffers from two infections at the same time