Full coverage: Health

31.03.2006 People living with HIV/AIDS are taking on drug major GlaxoSmithKline's efforts to patent its AIDS-medicine Combivir in India.The Manipur Network of Positive People (MNP+), under the aegis of the Indian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+) has filed a pre-grant opposition to GSK's patent application at the Indian Patent office in Kolkata.

30.03.2006 Health service providers are getting hyperactive windows from the blessing of cybernetic connection. Newly developed computer based gadgets are best companion for doctors along with their traditional equipment like stethoscope and thermometer in many countries.

29.03.2006 Though Bihar is cited as an example of bad governance and corruption, these things are not confined to Bihar alone. It is an all-India phenomenon.The Primary Health Care Centres of Bihar are in a pathetic condition. But the average life span of a Bihari is almost on par with the national average.

29.03.2006 Healthcare is an information intensive industry. Being an information-based industry, it can benefit from IT more than perhaps any other industry.

29.03.2006 Mentre l'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (Oms) e l'UNAids hanno reso noto un rapporto sull'espansione del trattamento antiretrovirale per i malati di Aids e tendono all'estensione universale della terapia, l'organizzazione Medici Senza Frontiere (Msf) esprime preoccupazione sull'impossibilità di rendere disponibili su larga scala i farmaci antiretrovirali essenziali all'espansione del trattamento. L'Oms e i donatori internazionali sembrano ignorare la minaccia che grava sull'accesso a prezzi equi dei farmaci essenziali, una delle barriere chiave all'estensione globale del trattamento. Un crescente numero di persone affette dall'HIV, già da anni in trattamento, avranno in un futuro prossimo sempre maggior bisogno di accedere a nuove terapie i cui prezzi rimarranno estremamente elevati.

27.03.2006 A consultation last week in Addis Ababa pledged to move Africa towards better policies to drastically reduce the number of women who undergo unsafe or illegal abortions--currently about 4 million per year.

27.03.2006 As Korea enters into negotiations with the United States regarding a proposed bilateral trade agreement, analysts warn of the constraints this agreement will place on Koreans' access to health care and medicines that are currently easily accessible.

27.03.2006 New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says that it is time to lay emphasis on the impact that environment has on health as poor environment goes hand in hand with bad health. Experts have called for defining the environment-health research agenda, especially for the new school of public health.

24.03.2006 According to a new UNICEF report, children in Haiti are more likely to die in their first years of life than in any other country in the Western Hemisphere. Citing a lack of basic services, environmental degradation and rampant violence, UNICEF applauds the newly elected president's public commitment to social change and child welfare.

23.03.2006 This year's World Health Day--April 7th--will celebrate all those who protect and promote the health of others. Campaigners will also call on politicians to provide greater support to those working in the healthcare sector so they can continue to do their jobs effectively.

23.03.2006 After Pakistan confirmed its first cases of bird flu in two farms in the North West Frontier province, neighbouring Afghanistan has also confirmed the outbreak.

23.03.2006 Washington, D.C. radio host Kojo Nnamdi recently interviewed CEDPA president Yolonda C. Richardson and Population Action International's Bob Englman. Listen to the discussion to find out how population growth impacts the global environment, economy, and public health.

21.03.2006 The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) has decided to keep the focus of the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) on ways to protect breastfeeding by eliminating advertising and other harmful marketing practices for infant feeding products.

18.03.2006 Religious and cultural festivals are not the only practices that survive the processes of immigration - says Sunita Puri, a second-year medical student at the UC San Francisco-UC Berkeley joint medical program. She is currently conducting an ethnographic study of son preference and sex selection among South Asian immigrants in the United States...

15.03.2006 Ante la severa amenaza de contaminación con agroquímicos, Costa Rica empieza a cifrar esperanzas en la producción orgánica. Un proyecto de ley para el fomento de este tipo de agricultura fue dictaminado favorablemente por la Comisión de Agropecuarios del Congreso y podría ser votado en primer debate antes de que concluya la actual legislatura.

10.03.2006 Le Cadre de la politique sur la santé de l’Alberta annoncé hier viole clairement la Loi canadienne sur la santé et le gouvernement fédéral doit intervenir pour protéger le système de santé public, dit le Conseil des Canadiens. En décembre 2005, Stephen Harper s’est engagé clairement dans la plate-forme électorale de son parti à soutenir la Loi canadienne sur la santé. Il a assuré les Canadiens que tous les plans qui seront mis en oeuvre au cours de son mandat respecteront la législation fédérale sur la santé. Le principal organisme de défense des intérêts des citoyens du Canada demande aux Conservateurs de Stephen Harper de respecter leur promesse électorale en prenant des mesures pour contrer le nouveau plan de Ralph Klein.

09.03.2006 On 8 February 2006, the deadly strain of H5NI Avian Flu was officially confirmed on a commercial farm in Nigeria where 40,000 infected chickens died from the virus.

08.03.2006 In what they're calling an "unprecedented partnership," four prestigious women's organizations are teaming up to connect American working women to the many efforts that help people in developing countries overcome poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and disease.

06.03.2006 The outbreak of bird flu in the west Indian state of Maharashtra is particularly worrisome for a country like India, which has a weak public health system and an annual per capita public health expenditure of just Rs 200.

06.03.2006 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) and Birla Institute of technology and Science(BITS) jointly launched the project titled Socio-economic upliftment of rural women through technology intervention :Realising Millennium Development Goals through ICTs on 13th January 2006 in the two panchayats, Jherli and Ghumansar, near BITS.

The goal of the project is to empower communities on health, social and development issues through Mass Media and to promote various ICT tools.