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Hemophilia Not On India’s Health Budget
MONTREAL: India is among many developing nations including China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, which do not allocate money for hemophilia treatment in their health budgets, an NGO has said. “Hemophilia is nowhere in the health agenda of India which focuses on malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS and other infectious diseases”, Vijay Kaul, who heads the Hemophilia Federation of India (HFI), a Delhi–based NGO, said on the concluding day of the 24th World Hemophilia Congress here yesterday.

Hemophilia, a genetic disorder affecting only males, is caused by the absence of certain blood clotting factors which have to be injected in the patients either during surgery or during continual bouts of internal bleeding into joints and muscles which leads to pain, stiffness, aches and even disability.

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