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MayMeasurementMonth Campaign 2018 launched in Nepal

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MayMeasurementMonth Campaign 2018 launched in Nepal

May 2, 2018
State Minister for Health and Population Hon. Padma Aryal formally launched a month long nationwide blood pressure screening campaign today. MayMeasurementMonth2018 Campaign was kickoff by measuring Minister’s blood pressure. The main objective of this campaign is to raise awareness on hypertension in Nepal. Last year, This campaign measured blood pressure of 7 thousand peoples in Nepal. The target of campaign for this year is to reach at least 10 thousand.
May Measurement Month is an initiative led by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) and endorsed by the World Hypertension League (WHL).  It grew out of World Hypertension Day, which was launched by the WHL in 2005 to raise awareness around blood pressure worldwide. The goal of this initiative is to raise awareness around blood pressure worldwide.

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World Asthma Day 2018: Never too early, never too late

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World Asthma Day 2018: Never too early, never too late

May 1: Today is the 20th annual World Asthma Day, an event held each May to raise awareness of Asthma worldwide. World Asthma Day is organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma, or GINA (www.ginasthma.org), a World Health Organization collaborative and 501(c)3 organization founded in 1993.
This year’s World Asthma Day theme is “NEVER TOO EARLY, NEVER TOO LATE. It’s always the right time to address airways disease.” The theme provides a call to action for both patients and healthcare providers worldwide to evaluate symptoms regardless of the timepoint in one’s life they may occur and take actions to ensure that the asthma is controlled.
World Asthma Day was first held in 1998, and has grown each year to become one of the most important Asthma events globally. 

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Key facts 

  • Asthma is one of the major noncommunicable diseases. It is a chronic disease of the the air passages of the lungs which inflames and narrows them.
  • Some 235 million people currently suffer from asthma. It is a common disease among children.
  • Most asthma-related deaths occur in low- and lower-middle income countries.
  • According to the latest WHO estimates, released in December 2016, there were 383000 deaths due to asthma in 2015.
  • The strongest risk factors for developing asthma are inhaled substances and particles that may provoke allergic reactions or irritate the airways.
  • Medication can control asthma. Avoiding asthma triggers can also reduce the severity of asthma.
  • Appropriate management of asthma can enable people to enjoy a good quality of life.

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World Immunization Week 24-30 April 2018 “Protected Together, #VaccinesWork”

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World Immunization Week 24-30 April 2018 “Protected Together, #VaccinesWork”

World Immunization Week – celebrated in the last week of April – aims to highlight the collective action needed to ensure that every person is protected from vaccine-preventable diseases. This year’s theme: “Protected Together, #VaccinesWork”, encourages people at every level – from donors to the general public – to go further in their efforts to increase immunization coverage for the greater good.
Immunization saves millions of lives and is widely recognized as one of the world’s most successful and cost-effective health interventions. Yet, there are more than 19 million unvaccinated or under-vaccinated children in the world, putting them at serious risk of these potentially fatal diseases. Of these children, 1 out of 10 never receive any vaccinations, and most likely have never been seen by the health system.

2018 Campaign objectives

The goal of World Immunization Week 2018 is to urge greater action on immunization around the world, with a particular focus on spotlighting the role that everyone can play in this effort, from donors to individuals.

As part of the 2018 campaign, WHO and partners aim to:

  • Highlight the importance of immunization, and the remaining gaps in global coverage
  • Underscore the value of vaccines to target donor countries and the importance of investing in immunization efforts
  • Highlight the ways in which everyone – from donors to individuals – can and must drive vaccine progress.

Progress towards the Decade of Vaccines

The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) – endorsed by 194 Member States of the World Health Assembly in May 2012 – aims to prevent millions of deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases by 2020 through universal access to immunization. Despite improvements in individual countries and a strong global rate of new vaccine introduction, all of the GVAP targets for disease elimination—including measles, rubella, and maternal and neonatal tetanus—are behind schedule.
In order for everyone, everywhere to survive and thrive, countries must make more concerted efforts to reach GVAP goals by 2020. Additionally, those countries that have achieved or made forward progress towards achieving the goals must work to sustain those efforts over time – so that no person goes without life-saving vaccines.

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May Measurement Month! MMM18! #checkyourpressure

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May Measurement Month! MMM18! #checkyourpressure

May Measurement Month is an initiative led by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) and endorsed by the World Hypertension League (WHL).  It grew out of World Hypertension Day, which was launched by the WHL in 2005 to raise awareness around blood pressure worldwide. The goal of this initiative is to raise awareness around blood pressure worldwide.
May Measurement has expanded this into a global synchronised screening campaign and took place for the first time during May 2017.  Over 100 countries took part in the inaugural year and screened over 1.2 million people, making this the world’s largest public blood pressure screening programme. 
In Nepal, May Measurement Month for Hypertension-Nepal is a nationwide blood pressure screening campaign, aimed at addressing the increasing burden of hypertension in Nepal. 

If you are interested to participate in this campaign and organize a local screening event in your
health institution, school, offices and neighbourhood. Please contact campaign coordinator
Dr. Sweta Koirala, at email: ksweta@hotmail.com

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Prevention is key and individuals can reduce their risk by following these 10 guidelines:

  1. Maintain a healthy body weight
  2. Exercise for an average of 30 minutes a day
  3. Eat plenty of  fruit and vegetables – daily
  4. Cut down on salt consumption
  5. Reduce fat and sugar intake
  6. Don’t smoke tobacco
  7. Reduce caffeine 
  8. Don’t drink too much alcohol – stick to daily recommendations
  9. Add beetroot and beetroot juice to your diet
  10. Avoid stress where possible and allow time for relaxation

Source of information : May Measurement Month

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Sustain high-level commitment to beat malaria across the WHO South-East Asia Region

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Sustain high-level commitment to beat malaria across the WHO South-East Asia Region

By Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia

The WHO South-East Asia Region has made world-beating progress in the quest to eliminate malaria. Since 2010 the Region’s malaria incidence has been slashed by half. Associated mortality has declined by 60%. Two countries in the Region – Maldives and Sri Lanka – have already beaten indigenous transmission of the disease and been certified malaria-free. By all accounts, high-level commitment, coupled with the right tools and strategies, is the key to making malaria’s Region-wide elimination possible.
Importantly, each of the Region’s Member countries understands this. As expressed in the Ministerial Declaration on Accelerating and Sustaining Malaria Elimination in the South-East Asia Region signed in November, a unique opportunity exists to eliminate malaria across the Region. Bhutan, Nepal and Timor-Leste, for example, are identified as having the potential to follow Maldives and Sri Lanka and interrupt malaria transmission by 2020.
But in areas and communities where malaria remains a problem, concentrated efforts are needed to reach the Region’s 2030 elimination target. To that end, sustained, high-level commitment is crucial, and should be focused on implementing a series of evidence-based interventions.
First among them is expanding national malaria programmes’ reach to disadvantaged or neglected communities, including tribal, migrant or mobile populations. That means providing them access to long-lasting insecticidal nets (and ensuring they know how and why to use them) or carrying out indoor residual spraying where appropriate. It also means providing pregnant women and children under-5 within these groups special attention, including increased access to antenatal services.
Strengthening surveillance and harnessing the full power of available tools and treatments is likewise crucial. While surveillance should be strengthened Region-wide (including via cross-border initiatives), where feasible it should be transformed so as to facilitate elimination, particularly in countries striving to eliminate the disease by 2020, as well as those in the Greater Mekong Subregion that aim to eliminate the Plasmodium falciparum parasite by 2025 in response to the serious situation with regard to multi-drug resistance. This should be part of a larger push to effectively utilize available tools and treatments. A more practical approach to case management of Plasmodium vivax malaria, for example, is needed with respect to the safe and effective use of primaqine, particularly given the South-East Asia Region has the majority of the world’s vivax malaria cases.
Ensuring national malaria programmes are provided sustainable funding is paramount. Unless domestic financing is increased Region-wide, the prospect of malaria’s deadly resurgence is a distinct (and alarming) possibility. As more of the Region’s Member countries transition away from dependence on international funding, high-level leaders must recognize the benefits beating malaria will bring, not on only to their citizens’ health and wellbeing, but to sustainable development as a whole.
That is an important point. On World Malaria Day we must appreciate that being Ready to Beat Malaria is about more than existing burdens, past progress or present gains – it is about the mindset we adopt and the commitment we demonstrate to achieving our 2030 elimination target. WHO South-East Asia is Ready to Beat Malaria, and will continue to support Member countries achieve that goal. With sustained, high-level commitment, each one of them can do so.

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World Malaria Day 2018: #ReadyToBeatMalaria #WorldMalariaDay

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World Malaria Day 2018: #ReadyToBeatMalaria #WorldMalariaDay #EndMalaria

World Malaria Day on 25 April focuses global attention on malaria and its devastating impact on families, communities and development. The theme for this year, “Ready to beat Malaria”, stresses the need to accelerate efforts to defeat malaria. Countries have committed to ending the malaria epidemic by 2030 as one of the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Ready to beat Malaria underscores the collective energy and commitment of the global malaria community in uniting around the common goal of a world free of malaria.
In 2016, there were 216 million cases of malaria in 91 countries, 5 million more than the 211 million cases reported in 2015. This marks a return to 2012 levels.
Malaria continues to claim a significant number of lives: in 2016, 445 000 people died from malaria globally, compared to 446 000 estimated deaths in 2015.
Children under 5 are particularly susceptible to malaria. The disease claims the life of a child every 2 minutes.

Ready to beat malaria

Urgent action is required to get the global fight against malaria back on track.

On World Malaria Day 2018, WHO is calling for:

  • Expanded coverage of proven tools that we know work – tools that have already dramatically lowered the global burden of malaria.
  • Parallel investments in the research and development of new tools to accelerate the pace of progress.
On #WorldMalariaDay, @WHO calls for urgent action to get the global fight against #malaria
back on  track. Expanding access to core malaria-fighting tools is needed to meet the 2030
global health targets.

 

Globally, 216 million people were infected with #malaria in 2016, 5 million more than the
previous year.  This brings us back to 2012 levels. Increased funding for malaria is needed to
beat the disease.

 

#Malaria still kills a child every two minutes. No child should die because they cannot access
 life-saving services to prevent, detect & treat the disease.

 
Global response to #malaria is at a crossroads. After years of success in tackling the disease, progress has stalled. On #WorldMalariaDay, 3 things needed to get the world back on track:

  • Political commitment
  • Financial resources
  • New & improved tools

WHO at 70: 7 decades in the global malaria fight

This year’s World Malaria Day coincides with the start of a year-long series of activities to commemorate the 70th anniversary of WHO.

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The National Immunization Programme (National Immunization Schedule), Nepal

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The National Immunization Programme (National Immunization Schedule), Nepal

The National Immunization Programme (NIP) is a priority 1 (P1) programme of the Government of Nepal. Launched as the Expanded Programme on Immunization in 2034 BS (1977/78), the National Immunization Programme has met several milestones, including Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on reducing under-5 mortality. Eleven antigens are provided through the national programme to eligible infants, children and mothers through more than 16,000 outreach sessions, including in geographically and economically hard-to-reach and marginalized communities. The initiative of Reaching Every Child and declaring VDCs, municipalities and district as fully covered was initiated in 2012 to search for and vaccinate never reached and dropout children. Eighteen districts and more than 1,800 village development committees (VDCs) have been declared fully immunized. Mass vaccination campaigns on measles and rubella (MR) were integrated with one dose oral polio vaccine for 0-5 years and mass vaccination campaign of Japanese encephalitis in the reporting period. In the measles-rubella campaign 9 month to 5 year old children were vaccinated in 61 districts and 6 to 5 year children in 14 earthquake affected districts. Japanese encephalitis mass vaccination was conducted in 44 non JE introduced districts. Now onwards all 75 districts have introduced JE vaccine in routine immunization.
A successful Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine demonstration project was implemented in Kaski and Chitwan during the same period. The Comprehensive Multi-Year Plan of Action (cMYPoA for 2012–16) ended in 2016 and the new Comprehensive Multi-Year Plan (cMYP, 2017-2021) has been prepared.
Nepal has been polio free since 2010. It switched to bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV- P1 and P3) from trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV- P1,P2 and P3) on 17 April 2016 (5 Baisakh 2073). The elimination status of maternal and neonatal polio has been sustained since 2005. The reduced burden of Japanese encephalitis was successfully maintained during the reporting period. Progress has been maintained towards measles elimination and the control of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) by 2019.
New guidelines on measles case-based surveillance and rubella and CRS control have been drafted with
endorsement awaited. The Child Health Division allocated adequate resources for vaccines, consumables and cold chain volume and closely monitors the immunization coverage and vaccine preventable disease surveillance status to ensure that the polio free status, the elimination of maternal neonatal tetanus and the control of other
vaccine preventable diseases are sustained. The Logistics Management Division (LMD) is responsible for the procurement of vaccines, cold chain equipment and for ensuring that beneficiaries receive high quality vaccines. The National Health Education, Information and Communication Centre (NHEICC) is responsible for developing and producing advocacy and IEC materials on immunization. RHDs monitor immunization activities, adequacy of vaccines and consumables as well as supply chain management. DPHOs and DHOs implement immunization activities through health facilities and private health clinics partnering in immunization.
Immunization services are delivered through static immunization clinics in health facilities, outreach sessions and mobile clinics in communities (VDCs and municipalities) throughout the country. Outreach sessions are periodically reviewed to increase the access of immunization services the number of 8 sessions varies usually from 3-5 held in a VDC/ month and more in municipalities. More than 16,000 immunization sessions per month or 192,000 per year are conducted nationwide. Private health facilities, hospitals, NGO/INGO and medical colleges run static immunization clinics to increase the access of immunization services and is based on needs and included in district micro plans.
A health facility generates data on vaccine usage, dropout and vaccine wastage rate. Most new and underused vaccines are expensive and hence the vaccine wastage rate is monitored for each antigen. The wastage rate of non-multi-dose vaccine vials (MDVP) (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin [BCG] and measlesrubella vaccine) remains high as the national policy allows opening at least one vial in each session, the other vaccines vials falling under ‘Multi dose vial policy’, allowed to use for 28 days in fixed sessions once opened (if the criteria of open vials are not violated) however at outreach sessions even these MDVP vaccines are used only for 3 days.
The HMIS section of the Management Division collects monthly data that it compiles and shares with CHD’s Immunization Section every three months. Vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) surveillance data collected through the HMIS are verified and feedback is given regularly to district health offices. The World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) Immunization Preventable Diseases (IPD) collects information on acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), measles-like illnesses, maternal and neonatal tetanus and acute encephalitis syndrome through regular weekly zero and monthly reporting sites. Surveillance medical officers (SMOs), who are based in 11 places in country, regularly visit districts health offices and health facilities (public and private hospitals, clinics) to investigate VPD cases and outbreaks. In addition, they support the immunization programme and build the capacity of health workers on immunization and surveillance.

Goal, objectives and strategies
The National Immunization Programme has two main guiding documents:

  • The Nepal Health Sector Programme-2 Implementation Plan (NHSP IP 2) focused on increasing access and utilisation of essential health care services, especially to reduce disparities in access to health care. It gave high priority to the immunization programme.
  • The Comprehensive Multi-year Plan of Action (2012–2016) is the main guiding document for the national immunization programme. It was aligned with policy documents of the national immunization programme, World Health Assembly (WHAs) resolutions and the Global Vaccine Action Plan.

The overall goal of the cMYPoA (2012-2016) was “To reduce child mortality, morbidity and disability associated with vaccine preventable diseases.”

Targets and schedule

The target population of the National Immunization Programme are:

  • under 1 year old children for BCG, DPT-HepB-Hib, OPV, IPV, PCV and measles-rubella1 (MR1) vaccine.
  • 12 month old children for Japanese encephalitis
  • 15 month old children for measles-rubella second dose (MRSD)
  • pregnant women for tetanus toxoid and low dose diphtheria toxoid (Td) containing vaccine.

SOURCE OF INFO: DoHS ANNUAL REPORT

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Hypertension kills nearly 1.5 million people each year in the WHO SEAR

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High blood pressure is one of the most important causes of premature death worldwide and the problem is growing. 

Hypertension kills nearly 1.5 million people each year in the WHO South-East Asia Region. 

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The top 5 causes of death in adolescents aged 10-19 years

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The top 5 causes of death in adolescents aged 10-19 years

3000 adolescents die every day – 1.2 million every year – from largely preventable causes. More than two-thirds of these occurred in low- and middle-income countries in Africa and South-East Asia.
The top 5 causes of death in adolescents aged 10-19 years are:
1- Road traffic injuries
2- Pneumonia
3- Suicide
4- Diarrhoeal diseases
5- Drowning
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Safe motherhood campaign year announced

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Safe motherhood campaign year announced

KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Health has decided to mark Nepali year 2075 BS and the year following as years for safe motherhood campaign.
Minister of State for Health, Padma Kumari Aryal, announced the commencement of this campaign on the occasion of fifth National Safe Motherhood Day-2075 BS, here today.
Speaking at a programme at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), the Minister of State said the government introduced plans and policies to observe the campaign for two consecutive years. The campaign shall be implemented in four phases.
According to Minister Aryal, among other initiatives in the campaign, the government has set a target of establishing a safe motherhood fund at every local level to be utilised for emergency maternity services.
Screening of cervical and breast cancer through all health facilities, public awareness on safe motherhood with the participation of adolescents, essay writing and debate competition on safe motherhood, education for girls on menstrual health and hygiene, and nationwide distribution of sanitary pads are parts of the campaign. Women’s capacity enhancement issue shall also be highlighted during the campaign.
On the occasion, the Minister of State honoured five new mothers at the hospital.

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