{"id":45850,"date":"2025-04-20T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T05:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=45850"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:36:38","slug":"heald-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/heald-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"HEALD Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>HEALD Initiative Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Union Home Minister recently unveiled the HEALD Initiative to combat liver diseases across India.<\/p>\n<h2>About HEALD Initiative<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>HEALD (<strong>Healthy Liver Education and Alcohol-associated Liver Disease Prevention<\/strong>) is a first-of-its-kind\u00a0<strong>nationwide initiative<\/strong>\u00a0aimed at\u00a0<strong>tackling liver disease in India\u00a0<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>launched by the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>HEALD is envisioned as a\u00a0<strong>multi-sectoral program<\/strong>\u00a0combining public education, early screening, psychological and medical treatment of alcohol use disorder, and liver disease management.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative helps to tackle the disease\u00a0<strong>through awareness, prevention, rehabilitation, and policy integration.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also aims to\u00a0<strong>reduce the stigma surrounding alcohol dependence\u00a0<\/strong>by integrating mental health support, community outreach, and policy reform into liver care.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative is grounded in the principle that &#8220;behind every failed liver lies a missed opportunity&#8221; &#8212; and HEALD seeks to ensure no such opportunity is lost again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a t<strong>ertiary care, super-specialty hospital\u00a0<\/strong>located in\u00a0<strong>Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>established in 2009 by<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi\u00a0<\/strong>as an\u00a0<strong>autonomous institute<\/strong>\u00a0under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The ILBS is a\u00a0<strong>mono-super speciality hospital<\/strong>, which means that it\u00a0<strong>provides primarily liver and biliary care.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This\u00a0<strong>focus on a single organ system<\/strong>\u00a0allows the institute to achieve a high degree of expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of liver and biliary diseases.<\/li>\n<li>The hospital also has a dedicated research center.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india-news\/amit-shah-unveils-heald-initiative-to-combat-liver-diseases-across-india-125041900762_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEALD (Healthy Liver Education and Alcohol-associated Liver Disease Prevention) is India\u2019s first nationwide initiative to address liver disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":45852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[202,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-45850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-heald-initiative","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}