The state health department in Karnataka has begun a door-to-door campaign to distribute anti-filarial drugs, targeting 18.6 ...

The prevention and controlling of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) are crucial to ending extreme poverty in the country in the next two decades, the Volta Regional Director of Health, Dr Chrysantus ...

Health minister Satya Kumar says cases of elephantiasis cases, also called filaria, have declined drastically in the ...

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda on Monday called for the implementation of a five-pronged strategy to ...

JP Nadda said, "We have re-affirmed our resolve to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) which is caused by Culex mosquito. LF is also known as elephantiasis. We have reached very close to eliminating ...

Under the National Vector-Borne Disease Control Program, the Filariasis Eradication Campaign was officially launched in East Singhbhum by Deputy Commissioner Ananya Mittal and ADM (Law & Order) Aniket ...

Guwahati: Lymphatic filariasis (LF), commonly known as elephantiasis, is a challenge in Assam, said state health minister ...

In a step towards eradicating Lymphatic Filariasis (commonly known as Elephantiasis), Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda virtually launched the Mass Drug Administration (MDA) program on Monday in the ...

As per the health ministry, “the MDA campaign will cover 111 endemic districts across 13 states where LF patients will be ...

With the aim of making India free from Lymphatic Filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis, a painful and profoundly ...