The government will provide about 50,000 improved latrines to rural poor households in 33 districts to help them improve their sanitation standard.

Over 3,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, President Juan Manuel Santos says.

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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has declared war on mosquitoes responsible for spreading the Zika virus in a recorded TV message to the nation, reports BBC.

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Greater investment in breastfeeding could add $300 billion into the global economy and save about 820,000 lives each year, finds a study from The Lancet.

The role of a family in keeping children away from drug abuse is very crucial as its members are the first and key

People trying to give up smoking often use e-cigarettes to help wean themselves off tobacco.

Colombia says three people have died after contracting the Zika virus and developing a rare nerve disorder. Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria said there was a "causal connection" between Zika, the Guillain-Barre disorder and the three deaths.

The literary magazine Pantha Joner Sokha urged the government to help renowned poet Rafiq Azad for better treatment, said a press release.

South American health ministers hold an emergency meeting on slowing the spread of the Zika virus, dubbed a "nightmare" by hard-hit Brazil, where it is blamed for brain damage in babies.

The mosquito behind the Zika virus seems to operate like a heat-driven missile of disease. The hotter it gets, the better the mosquito that carries Zika virus is at transmitting its buffet of dangerous illnesses, scientists say.

Cancer specialists and health policymakers yesterday agreed that the country needs cancer treatment centres in

Eight-day-old twin girls who were joined at the liver and chest are successfully separated by doctors in Switzerland.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to

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The World Health Organisation today has urged the regional countries, including Bangladesh, to strengthen surveillance and take preventive measures against the Zika virus disease.

Risk for Zika virus infection in Bangladesh is low as the countries affected by the mosquito-borne disease are far away, experts says.

The World Health Organization's emergency committee will debate whether a Zika virus outbreak suspected of causing a surge in serious birth defects in South America should be considered a global health emergency.