Full Coverage: Health

30.01.2005 Des jeunes qui ont passé une partie de leur enfance et de leur adolescence dans les centres de jeunesse du Québec prennent la parole dans ce film de Louise Rinfret, «L’horizon emmuré». Ils témoignent de la privation de liberté qu’ils ont subie, de leur souffrance et des répercussions sur leur vie de jeunes adultes. Plusieurs des scènes du film ont été tournées clandestinement dans les institutions.

28.01.2005 "The sheer immensity of the gathering is still hard to understand," says Alex Goldmark reporting from the world's largest gathering of civil society. "The organizers here see this fifth World Social Forum as a step in a process to empower the people of the developing world, it is not just a gathering of a city's worth of NGO representatives."

28.01.2005 Traffic ground to a halt yesterday in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre as the Peace March kicked off this year's World Social Forum. 120,000 have shown up to promote a more inclusive and harmonious global society, calling for concrete action to annul poor countries' debt, for one.

27.01.2005 Removal of massive under-nourishment in India requires a combination of
health initiatives, nutrition interventions and the creation of extra income, particularly for those whose families are hungry because they have no work, says Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in an interview to Siddharth Varadarajan.

26.01.2005 No international organization that receives U.S. government funding is allowed to perform legal abortions or even counsel women about abortion. This policy, which has been blamed for reducing women's access to vital family planning services in poor countries, has had a tumultuous history, most recently being reinstated by George W. Bush as one of his first acts as president--on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Learn more from this interactive timeline.

26.01.2005 Wal-Mart has been assailed for driving smaller operations out of business wherever it goes, and now the retail behemoth is being challenged itself--forced to scrap expansion plans in several U.S. cities as residents protest its employment policies that they say keep poor workers poor. While the company's profits top $9 billion a year, only half its employees have health insurance, and those that do often pay as much as $200 per month out of their own pockets.

25.01.2005 Singling out HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, and family planning, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton bemoaned the "less-than-friendly" atmosphere women's health advocates face in Washington earlier this month, urging members of the International Women's Health Coalition to hold their leaders accountable for advances--or the lack thereof--on these issues.

24.01.2005 Medical researchers want nations to bring together AIDS and malaria prevention programmes as a new study says that an outbreak of malaria in HIV positive people increases the count of virus in the body and speeds up the rate of transmission.

24.01.2005 Newly-launched report Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals unveils scores of cost-effective measures for reducing poverty in half and radically improving the lives of more than one billion people in developing countries by 2015.

20.01.2005 In a recently-launched countrywide AIDS awareness campaign by the Indian government four trains carrying experts would travel throughout the country to sensitise citizens about the pandemic, especially in rural areas.

20.01.2005 India is planning a nationwide campaign to raise awareness about AIDS by using trains carrying a mobile hospital, AIDS experts and groups of young people, all providing support and information about the HIV virus.

20.01.2005 Besides being driving force behind various conventions civil society in India is also engaged in filling the gap and furthering the protection and education and health rights to the children in need.

19.01.2005 Records show that despite several efforts in Afghanistan the nation has failed to provide proper healthcare to women and children simply because the UN development indicators overlooked the non-availability of health centres and medical experts at the grassroots.

19.01.2005 Medical researchers hope to develop a new vaccine that would prevent the spread of malaria from an infected person to others.

18.01.2005 Dans la province d'Aceh, en Indonésie, l'une des zones les plus durement frappées par le tsunami qui a dévasté les communautés côtières de l'Asie du Sud, les journalistes et le personnel de soutien du « Serambi Indonesia » refusent de succomber à la tragédie. En dépit de la mort de la moitié des employés, le journal - unique quotidien indépendant de l'Aceh - continue à paraître, selon ce que rapporte l' Association mondiale des journaux (AMJ).

18.01.2005 Chinese traditional medicine is increasingly popular in the UK. But indigenous communities in China whose knowledge is its foundation receive little benefit. The Chinese government is reviewing the position on intellectual property rights.

17.01.2005 Exposure of potable water bottles to sunlight for atleast six hour could kill germs minimizing the risk of water borne ailments in tsunami hit regions according to Swiss scientists.

17.01.2005 Exposure of potable water bottles to sunlight for atleast six hour could kill germs minimizing the risk of water borne ailments in tsunami hit regions according to Swiss scientists.

17.01.2005 Exposure of potable water bottles to sunlight for atleast six hour could kill germs minimizing the risk of water borne ailments in tsunami hit regions according to Swiss scientists.

14.01.2005 Each day, 30,000 children under five die, and most don't have to. "The good news is that we know what to do," says David Oot, Chairman of the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival, calling on U.S. citizens to get involved and raise awareness to refocus global attention on the pressing needs of world's children in 2005.