Infectious Diseases

The Infectious Diseases (ID) team recently conducted an awareness rally on two very dangerous infectious diseases, which are Dengue and Malaria, caused by mosquitoes carrying these diseases. The [...]

11th July is celebrated as World Population day each year by the United Nations (UN) and its member countries to raise awareness among the public about various global population issues and how to [...]

In a health camp organised for pregnant women of an underprivileged community in Suryanagar, Vikroli (in the central-northern part of Mumbai), the Infectious Diseases and Maternal & Child [...]

More than a decade ago, a Spanish tourist visited India and ended up adopting many of its citizens to help the City of Dream, Mumbai grow and develop, along with growth and development of the [...]

Our work with the slum communities involves interaction with all kind of daily wage workers, right from labourers, to rickshaw drivers, to vegetable vendors, to milkmen and every other person we [...]

The United Nations Theme for this year’s TB Awareness Day is “Unite to End TB”. And we stand with them. And coincidentally, something really important happened this year on March 16 that was long [...]

Tuberculosis. A disease, which up until a few years ago was considered to be a fatal one, tuberculosis is now completely curable, if detected in time. Our Infectious Diseases project periodically [...]

The Infectious Diseases Project in Mumbai Smiles Foundation is one that is trying to eliminate five infectious diseases, namely Dengue, Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV and Leprosy. Recently, on the [...]

Infectious Diseases project is one that conducts free health checkups in the various project areas in Andheri and neighbouring sections of Mumbai, covering a list of five gravely severe diseases [...]

We are back with updates on the free medical camps held for our beneficiaries in our seven project areas. Recently, we held a free medical camp in the Powai Market area to screen our [...]