Full coverage: Health

14.06.2006 Care of children and most vulnerable layers of population in need of special care has been the key priority of the activities of the Heyder Aliyev Foundation, headed by MP Mehriban Aliyeva, the First Lady, UNESCO Good Will Ambassador, since the very establishment.

13.06.2006 Dressed as cattle Greenpeace protestors tried to seek an audience on Tuesday with Indian agriculture minister Sharad Pawar over the mysterious deaths of livestock in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, allegedly due to consumption of genetically modified crops.

13.06.2006 Addressing sexual and reproductive health is key to achieving the
Millennium Development Goals, reveals a new report today released by the UN Millennium Project at the Global Health Council’s 33rd Annual International Conference on Global Health.

13.06.2006 La declaración política final surgida de la reunión ha sido interpretada como un fracaso no sólo por las organizaciones de la sociedad civil, sino también por varios gobiernos (en lenguaje diplomático) y por los propios artífices: los responsables de la agencia especializada ONUSIDA y el Secretario General, Kofi Annan.

10.06.2006 En el año 2003 una veintena de destacados científicos de siete países formaron el Grupo de Ciencia Independiente (Independent Science Panel) (http://www.indsp.org/). Esta agrupación presentó un detallado informe sobre los productos transgénicos en el que sostienen que "Los peligros más graves de la ingeniería genética son inherentes al proceso mismo".

09.06.2006 The World Health Assembly concluded its annual session over the weekend with the adoption of a resolution that could change the concept of drug research and development, and open the door to a system that gives the world's poor greater access to medicines.

08.06.2006 Chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik has called upon public sector undertakings and women’s self-help groups to take part in malaria eradication programmes, by way of participating in the awareness campaigns.

07.06.2006 Xiditoun ja Liukuaizhuangin taajamissa, niin sanotuissa "syöpäkylissä" sairastutaan syöpään jopa 25 kertaa todennäköisemmin kuin muualla Kiinassa. Kemianteollisuudesta, josta moni on käärinyt mittavan omaisuuden, maksetaan nyt kallista hintaa. Kiinan kansan päivälehti kertoo tuotannon kasvun haitat kokeneiden perheiden tarinan.

06.06.2006 Knowledge on reproductive health among more than 100,000 adolescent boys and girls in 17 districts and four metropolitan cities of Bangladesh has been raised.Adolescents were imparted training on health risk, different health issues and advocacy.

06.06.2006 The World Health Organization has agreed to begin work on a strategy to support "needs-driven" research on diseases that particularly affect developing countries.

06.06.2006 Pakistan's Larkana district health department organised an anti-polio walk in connection with a three-day special campaign beginning today for the eradication of the disease.

06.06.2006 Children from across Bangladesh have demanded quality health service for them through ensuring school based health services, supplying nutritious tiffin, make doctors available and adequate stock of medicines in the hospitals.

06.06.2006 WHO is working with the Indonesian authorities to provide medical care, acquire medicines and equipment, and set up a disease surveillance system following the major earthquake that hit Java on Saturday.

05.06.2006 Over 30,000 families living below the poverty line in Asia’s largest slum at Dharavi, Mumbai may soon have insurance cover for their medical expenses and regular health check-ups, thanks to a unique care model.

05.06.2006 Pakistan's health care system is hamstrung by an acute shortage of nursing professionals -- the result of poor training facilities and an extremely difficult work environment.

05.06.2006 The Health Ministry’s national mission against the illegal practice of killing of female fetuses, which has left India with 960 women to every 1000 men, is yet to take off as the ministry has not appointed an expert.

05.06.2006 An awareness programme against the tobacco use spanning ten days has been organised by Nepal Cancer Relief Society (NCRS)

05.06.2006 During the past four fiscal years, the Pakistan government had released an amount of Rs 484 million against the required amount of Rs 655 million for the AIDS control programme.

05.06.2006 The public health sector in Pakistan suffers from considerable inadequacies with only one doctor available for 1,310 patients, one dentist for 25,297 people and one nurse for 4,636, according to the Economic Survey 2005-06.

05.06.2006 20 new cases reported so far this year from the western region of Utta Pradesh. This is one race that is beginning to tire the team. After several deadlines to free the country of polio ,the virus has struck with renewed ferocity in Uttar Pradesh this year.