by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Features, Health, Policy
The law is designed to make it easier for authorities to provide care to people with untreated mental illness or addictions to alcohol and drugs, many of whom are homeless. Local government said their hands are tied if a person refuses to receive help under existing...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2023 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Technology
The primary objective of NETREACH is to accelerate the national HIV response in India by targeting the first 95 goals set by the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP). It runs with support from India HIV/AIDS Alliance and with guidance from the National AIDS Control...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 11, 2023 | Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy, Technology
”Mental health is a universal human right. The use of technology in mental health care is a force multiplier. The Tele Manas Seva, launched last year on the occasion of World Mental Health Day, has counselled more than 3,50,000 people till date and currently...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 10, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Policy
Pinarayi Vijayan,Chief Minister,Kerala It is not merely the absence of mental disorders but a positive state of mental and emotional well-being. This definition aligns with the broader conception of human rights as not only freedoms from harm but freedoms to lead a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 10, 2023 | Features, Health
Down syndrome affects 400,000 people in the United States and more than 6 million globally. When Lianor da Cunha Hillerstrom of Lexington, Massachusetts, learned her now 9-year-old son Oskar had Down syndrome, she was concerned but not panicked. As a child, Lianor...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 10, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
The emergency management ministry unveiled the unprecedented toll wrought on the nation of 1.4 billion by calamities that ranged from sandstorms to rains that brought massive flooding and historic rainfall in Beijing, the capital BEIJING: China suffered direct...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 10, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Features, Health, Non-Life
‘The treatment cost is quite high in the private sector while at government setups there is a lot of rush and people do not want to go through that inconvenience,” said Asthana who was the chief coordinator of the mental health festival organised recently...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 10, 2023 | Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy
Insurance policies and schemes should include treatment for mental illnesses to increase the accessibility and affordability of mental health care. To boost accessibility to treatments for mental disorders for financially disadvantaged populations, it is necessary to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 10, 2023 | Data, Health, Technology
Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Jammu and Kashmir have emerged as the top-performing states in the implementation of this digital OPD registration service, it said. The paperless service, launched in October last year under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM),...
by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 10, 2023 | Health, Indian News
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya ”The primary focus of the centre involves a comprehensive investigation into a large cohort of severely mentally ill patients including those diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
