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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

May 03, 2019

Disabled People in Egypt to Get Jaipur Foot

A special camp for providing Jaipur Foot to 500 disabled people began in Egyptian city of Asyut. The camp was organised by the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti in association with the Ministry of External Affairs and the Egyptian government.

May 02, 2019

New Scheme Kicks Off

Collaborative research projects between Indian institutions and universities abroad are now getting funds from the government, allowing research students from here to work in world-class labs at the top universities.
This month, the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) sanctioned grants amounting to a total of Rs. 418 crore, for 600 joint research proposals between Indian institutions and universities abroad. The grants have been sanctioned under SPARC or the Scheme for Promotion of Academic Research Collaboration, launched in October last year.

Apr 29, 2019

New MBBS Syllabus

This August, undergraduate medical students across India will come into class to study a syllabus that has been revised after over two decades. Touted as a unique curriculum patented by the Medical Council of India (MCI), this "living document", which means that it is open to review and revision as required, is currently in its final lap of preparation before it is implemented.

Apr 25, 2019

World's First Malaria Vaccine

The world's first malaria vaccine has been rolled out in Malawi to protect 360,000 children under two in Malawi, Kenya and Ghana in Sub-Saharan Africa from the mosquito-borne disease that causes 435,000 people global deaths each year.
The RTS,S/AS01 (trade name Mosquirix) is an injectible recombinant protein-based vaccine acts against P. falciparum, the most prevalent malaria strain in Africa. The vaccine prevents four in 10 cases of malaria in children who received four doses over a four-year period. The WHO welcomed the pilot programme by the government of Malawi.
Children under five years are at the greatest risk of death, with at least 250,000 children dying of the disease in Africa each year.

Apr 17, 2019

Critical Chapters Dropped from CBSE

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided that chapters on democracy and diversity in the Class 10 social science syllabus for the 2019-2020 session will not figure in the final exams.
Three chapters from the Democratic Politics Book-I, namely, 'democracy and diversity', 'popular struggle and movements' and 'challenges to democracy', will be not evaluated in board examination 2020.
The decision is believed to be a part of a curriculum rationalisation exercise undertaken by the human resource development ministry to reduce the "burden" of the curriculum on students.

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