Full coverage: Health

12.07.2006 Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world.About 90% of the population lives in rural areas. The conflict situation affected the health, education, and other rights of the most vulnerable members of society, especially women and children.This article examine the evidence on the current state of child health and human rights in Nepal.

12.07.2006 Bangladesh's Prime Minister Khaleda Zia called for strengthening the health sector programmes by effectively involving the young in the activities for quick achievement of the desired goals.

12.07.2006 The Health ministry in association with WHO India Office has planned a National workshop on TRIPS and public health with special reference to data protection under Article 39.3 of TRIPS on July 13, 2006.

12.07.2006 Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and Cleantech Limited, a private organisation will together set up 50 mobile public toilets in different spots in the city by the end of this month.

11.07.2006 The World Population Day is being marked worldwide with focus on reproductive health of young people. The growing imbalance between the economic development and population growth has been a major global challenge.

11.07.2006 Outgoing United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Bangladesh representative Suneeta Mukharjee, who has stayed here five and a half years, expressed her highest job satisfaction in discharging her duties in Bangladesh and sang the country's praises for success in overall population sector.

11.07.2006 The tragic death of a mother and her unborn baby in the Thimphu referral hospital recently has highlighted the problem of a shortage of manpower in the health sector.

11.07.2006 Madhya State AIDS Control Society is successfully using All-India Radio (AIR) as part of its HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in the State.

06.07.2006 Jharkhand will open more medical institutes and increase the number of seats in existing facilities to fill the lacuna of doctors in the state as well as accommodate the central governmentÂ’s proposed quota policy, says Chief Minister Arjun Munda.

06.07.2006 Sri Lanka's National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Bill, aiming to eliminate tobacco and alcohol related harm to public health was unanimously passed in Parliament.

06.07.2006 The AIDS epidemic is fast spreading in Nepal presenting a horrifying picture. Reports estimate that Nepal already has over 60,000 people infected with HIV/AIDS. In a small country like Nepal with 23-plus million population, this number is not negligible.

05.07.2006 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA), has published reports and tool kits on an four-country action research that establish the role of ICTs in enabling people, to have better access to pro-poor government services.Each of the country teams chose a specific area of research. In Pakistan, the focus was on water and sanitation, in Croatia – waiting lists for surgeries in hospitals, India on access to services in a maternal and child health hospital and in Nigeria on primary education.

05.07.2006 The Eleventh Plan approach paper correctly notes that rural health care in most states in India is marked by absenteeism of doctors/health providers, low levels of skills, shortage of medicines, inadequate supervision/monitoring and callous attitudes. There are neither rewards for service providers, nor punishments to defaulters. As a result, health outcomes in India are worse than neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka and Southeast Asian countries like China and Vietnam.

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04.07.2006 “My parents are Holocaust survivors. They taught me at an early age that there is no 'over there'; there’s only 'over here.'” Maurice Middleberg shares his view of the changing landscape of global health.

04.07.2006 Poverty does not condemn a health program to failure. Researcher Ruth Levine explains why.

04.07.2006 Investigación divulgada en 2004, reveló que entre 3 y 5 millones de personas vivían con el virus VIH en las Américas. De éstas, cerca de 3 millones son latinoamericanos y caribeños. Y los números están aumentando.

04.07.2006 From October 2 Indians will not have to pay the extra local taxes for the medicines that they buy as the government has taken a decision to make drug prices uniform across the nation. This means that the medicines will only have one price printed on it and it would be the maximum retail price.