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Unique collaborative PPP for Malaria free India

The Dollar Business Bureau   In a unique effort to eradicate malaria, the Ministry of Health and Family welfare, the MP government, Indian Council of Medical Research and Sun Pharma have joined hands for a ‘Malaria free India.’ Under this Public Private Partnership, which is in line with Sun Pharma’s CSR objective of development in sustainable manner, the efforts will be made to support national program to eliminate malaria. The initiatives taken to eradicate malaria through collaboration was announced by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, Dr Soumya Swaminathan (Director General- ICMR), Gauri Singh (Principal Secretary- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) and Dilip Shanghvi (MD-Sun Pharma). The stakeholders in this collaboration will have technical and managing committees to keep a vigil on the spread of ...

India, USA sign agreements to strengthen cooperation in health sector

Source: PIB, The Government of India. India and the United States of America (USA) signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on cooperation on Cancer Research, Prevention, Control and Management and Collaboration in Environmental and Occupational Health and Injury Prevention and Control, and a Letter of Intent (LoI) on Antimicrobial Resistance Research, on June 25, 2015. The MoU on Cancer Research and LoI on Antimicrobial Resistance Research were signed by B P Sharma, Secretary (Department of Health and Family Welfare and Department of Health Research), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Prof. K Vijay Raghavan, Secretary (Department of Biotechnology), Ministry of Science & Technology and Richard Verma, Ambassador of the USA to India. While, the MoU on Collaboration in Environmental and Occupational ...

International co-operation to address challenges in health sector: Minister

The Dollar Business Bureau In a move to scale up international cooperation in the health sector, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India, have entered into various agreements with the foreign nations. This was informed by J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, on Tuesday. As informed by the Minister, during the period 2005-14, the Department of Health and Family Welfare (DH&FW) entered into 38 deals with various countries for cooperation in health sector. Under the cooperative move, 17 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) s and 18 agreements have been signed between the DH&FW and various countries. The countries involved in deals include Afghanistan, Austria, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Brazil, Cyprus, China, Columbia, ...