Full Coverage: Health

29.04.2004 Since last year, around 80 percent of Bangladesh's population has had access to negligible health services because the government suspended the salaries of 80,000 health and family planning workers and the supply of drugs to healthcare centers in villages.

27.04.2004 Il y a vingt ans, les membres du Comité national de santé et de sécurité du SCFP recommandaient la création d’une journée nationale dédiée à la mémoire de celles et ceux qui ont été tués ou blessés au travail. Aujourd’hui, le 28 avril est reconnu dans le monde entier comme le Jour de deuil international pour les travailleuses et les travailleurs qui ont été tués ou blessés au travail. Notre but, c’est d’éliminer la nécessité d’une telle journée.

27.04.2004 Increasing attacks by Maoist rebels in remote regions of Nepal have destroyed scores of health posts, leaving them powerless and deserted, with hapless villagers forced to fend for themselves.

26.04.2004 The World Health Organisation expressed concern over the SARS situation in China after four possible cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - including one death - were reported in the last few days.

23.04.2004 An Indian NGO is constructing a home for over 200 destitute children in the west Indian state of Maharashtra so that children can have access to health, awareness, education and self-reliance.

21.04.2004 A Nicaraguan court in early March ordered Shell Chemical, Dole Food and Standard Fruit companies to pay a group of women US$82.9 million in fines in a lawsuit brought by campesinas made chronically ill by the use of the pesticide Nemagon on banana plantations in the 1970s.

19.04.2004 A nationwide study conducted by Greenpeace covering agricultural communities in India finds that children exposed to pesticides have several serious mental development disorders.

19.04.2004 More than one million children in the UK are growing up in overcrowded, unfit or emergency housing that is affecting their health, education and future. Housing charity Shelter is calling on the government and devolved administrations to commit to ending bad housing for the next generation of children.

15.04.2004 Did the groundbreaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), whose work followed the 1994 election, successfully heal the wounds of earlier decades in South Africa? Helena Cobban analyses South Africa's progress over the last ten years.

15.04.2004 Greenpeace climbers dressed as Mickey and Minney Mouse climbed Disney's west London HQ early today to unveil a banner reading "Disney: Stop Selling Toxic Pyjamas to Kids". Tests show that Disney-branded pyjamas contain toxic chemicals, but the company has refused to stop selling them.

13.04.2004 WWF has revealed evidence that people across the UK are contaminated with a cocktail of highly toxic chemicals. Tests revealed that Northern Ireland displayed the highest average concentration of a pesticide type that in high quantities may cause cancer and damage the immune, nervous and reproductive systems.

09.04.2004 Tandis que Paul Martin commence à parler de
« changement évolutif » du système de santé, un sondage Ipsos-Reid a révélé hier que les Canadiens et Canadiennes rejettent l'idée que le secteur privé puisse financer certains services publics clés ou y participer d'une façon ou d'une autre. Selon le Conseil des Canadiens, les libéraux semblent écouter leurs dirigeants d’entreprises plutôt que la population canadienne lorsqu'il est question des services publics.

08.04.2004 NEW YORK, Apr 7 (IPS) -- Even as the White House scrambles to defend its handling of the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, the poisonous gas and dust unleashed by the disaster continue to settle in the lungs of thousands of recovery workers and New York City residents.

08.04.2004 Pregnancy complications are on the rise in Baghdad as women stay away from hospitals because of the unstable situation on the streets. Health workers are trying to cope with a health care system that is increasingly short on everything, from water to

incubators.

08.04.2004 "This Administration's track record is toxic to our children," says a new report by the Children's Environmental Health Network that concludes that environmental deregulation by the Bush administration is endangering the health and welfare of children around the country and giving it an "F" for polcies such as keeping mercury out of the food chain.

08.04.2004 When the fast food industry is made to bear the costs it is now imposing on the rest of society, it will collapse. The alternative to fast food now seems obvious, says Eric Schlosser - slow food.

07.04.2004 While major players in the battle to combat global AIDS agreed this week on the use of generic drugs, the Bush administration remains wedded to boosting the profits of American pharmaceutical firms, charged Africa Action yesterday. For more, see OneWorld on Yahoo News.

07.04.2004 WWF has released a damning report exposing the UK government's abysmal record on tackling toxic chemicals in everyday products. It criticises the UK's lack of effective action to address the threat from hazardous chemicals in its current chemicals policy.

06.04.2004 Dans un rapport intitulé « Je n'ai plus de joie de vivre ni de tranquillité d’esprit », MSF décrit les terribles conséquences médicales, psychosociales et socio-économiques de la violence sexuelle en RDC et l'utilisation du viol – à l'encontre aussi bien des femmes que des hommes – comme arme de guerre. Le rapport s'appuie sur les données médicales et les récits des victimes de viol traitées par MSF dans son dispensaire de Baraka, mais le phénomène est largement répandu dans les autres provinces de la RDC.

06.04.2004 Despite diversity in their geographical, linguistic and political structures, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka face common health challenges and need stronger research collaboration.