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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

May 23, 2019

US Student Visa Fee to Cost More

The US announced a $150 hike in fees for processing student visa, up from the current $200 to $350, marking a 75% rise that will make US education even costlier for applicants and hopefuls, many of whom come from India.
The new fees, which apply to F (academic) and M (non-academic, vocational) visa categories of students go into effect on June 24. Fees will go up also for other services under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) such as exchange visitors under J category and SEVP-certified schools for processing applications and site inspections.
For some J visas the fee goes from $180 to $220; and the SEVP school certification petition fee rises from $1,700 to $3000.
India is the second biggest source of international students for US colleges and universities, at 196,271 or 17% of 1.09 million in 2017-2018, second only to China which topped with 363,341, according to Open Doors, a resource on international students and scholars studying or teaching at higher education institutions.

Argentina and Algeria Certified Free of Malaria

Argentina and Algeria joined 36 other countries and territories that have been certified Malaria-free by the World Health Organisation.
The countries were officially recognised as Malaria-free in the ongoing 72nd World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. The certification is granted when a country proves it has interrupted indigenous transmission of the mosquito-borne disease for at least three years.

May 21, 2019

Delhi Schools Get Nod to Hike Fees

The Directorate of Education (DoE) allowed as many as 59 private schools to increase their tuition fees by 5-10% after auditing their accounts. The requests for another 177 schools were rejected after it was found the institutions were sufficiently funded.
Private schools built on Delhi Development Authority (DDA) land need prior approval from DoE to increase fees, 266 of 301 such schools had applied for permission to hike fees.

May 17, 2019

New DTU Courses

Delhi Technical University (DTU) is going to start five new courses at the postgraduate level from this session.
Three courses will be of science faculty, while two will be started in the management faculty.
According to information from DTU, MSc Physics, MSc Maths, MSc Biotechnology, MBBS in Business and Entrepreneurship and MBS Innovation and Venture Development Course are to be started from 2019 session.

May 16, 2019

Under-5 child Deaths in India Halved: Lancet Study

India has more than halved the annual deaths among children under five years, from 2.5 million in 2000 to 1.2 million in 2015, but wide disparities remain between states, a Lancet study has found.
Assam's under-5 death rate is close to eight times that in Goa, which reported 9.7 such deaths per 1,000 live births compared to Assam's 73.1, found researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health after analysing government health survey data on the causes of under-5 deaths from 2000-2015.
India has the world's biggest birth cohort, with 26 million babies born every year, and the largest number of child deaths.
The top causes of under-5 deaths are pre-term birth complications, preventable infectious diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea, followed by injuries, meningitis, measles and malaria, according to the study published in The Lancet Global Health.
Despite progress across India, disparities widened within states over 15 years, with the ratio between the highest regional mortality rate (northeast region) versus the lowest (southern region) increasing from 1.4 in 2000 to 2.1 in 2015, the study found.
To accelerate reductions in deaths, the study recommends universal immunisation and promoting standard care strategies for newborns.

May 14, 2019

Government Hospitals Can Now Issue Disability Certificates

The Delhi government has designated 27 government hospitals in all 11 districts to issue disability certificates under the new central Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, for 21 conditions.
Hospitals under the previous act were still issuing certificates, but the number of disabilities went up in the new act and these hospitals did not have the department or specialists to diagnose them.
The newly designated hospitals will ensure that people do not have to go from hospital to hospital to get the certificates.
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, now includes conditions like dwarfism, multiple sclerosis, and acid attack.

FCTC Protocol to be Observed

An initiative has been taken up by the State Tobacco Control Cell to implement Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the State.
The FCTC mandates that the government at the national, State and district level should restrict access of tobacco industry in terms of pubic health aspects.

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