Full Coverage: Health

30.03.2005 The phase out of generic drug manufacturing by India in order to comply with international trade rules may satisfy the mighty pharmaceutical industry, but it could spell doom for poor nations struggling to provide affordable treatment for HIV/AIDS, reports Nicolien den Boer.

30.03.2005 Dinanath, a Nepalese farmer, loses his wife while taking her to the nearest health centre 8 km from his village.

29.03.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 28 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration and opponents of its plans to overhaul Social Security are intensifying efforts to drum up public and legislative support for their positions following the latest annual financial checkups of the pension system and Medicare, the healthcare program for the elderly and disabled.

29.03.2005 Sans un test rapide et simple d’utilisation permettant de diagnostiquer rapidement la tuberculose, le personnel soignant dans les pays en développement va continuer à occulter près d’un malade sur deux. Et, pour MSF, tous les efforts pour contrôler la tuberculose seront vains.

28.03.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 28 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration and opponents of its plans to overhaul Social Security are intensifying efforts to drum up public and legislative support for their positions following the latest annual financial checkups of the pension system and Medicare, the healthcare program for the elderly and disabled.

28.03.2005 Pakistan launches an aggressive nationwide campaign to raise awareness about tuberculosis and access to free treatment at public health centres.

24.03.2005 In picking scientist and long-time Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee Steve Johnson to lead the EPA, analysts hoped President Bush was signaling that the government agency would consider science above politics in environmental decisions. Clean Air Watch president Frank O'Donnell writes, however, that the White House continues to place industry interests first.

23.03.2005 Oxfam health supervisors are helping the tsunami-affected communities in Batticaloa region in eastern Sri Lanka by organising health education campaign on basic sanitation using interactive media.

23.03.2005 Indian parliament approves the controversial patent act to comply with the countryÂ’s commitment with TRIPS agreement of WTO, which many fear could restrict the access to live saving medicines by the poor.

23.03.2005 Many Americans believe that foreign aid is money wasted, but a new book demonstrates that global health interventions--many of them funded (indirectly) by U.S. taxpayers--often are highly successful, and have saved millions of lives over the past 50 years.

21.03.2005 Y. S. P. Thorat, Managing Director, NABARD, and Graham A. N. Wright write, how innovative financial services can help poor and also help in achieving many millennium development goals.

21.03.2005 Pakistani childrenÂ’s new found love for cookies, colas and candies is worrying as diets rich in junk food could be the culprits behind the rapid rise of asthma and allergies in children, says the experts.

18.03.2005 Informed participants in a meeting organised to share best practices learned during a five-year reproductive health programme funded by the UK Department for International Development, noted that people in Pakistan are aware of reproductive health issues but they lack access to contraceptive services.

18.03.2005 The educated citizens of the country need to work together – to continuously strive to look for opportunities to begin a dialogue on HIV/AIDS in the community, in our society and in our workplace.

17.03.2005 The U.S. agency charged with protecting the environment passed a new mercury pollution rule on Tuesday that does little to decrease levels of the toxin in the atmosphere and would even cause sharp rises in some states, say environmentalists, expecting lawsuits to challenge the rule.

17.03.2005 For politicians HIV/AIDS continues to be seen as a health problem of people seen to be ‘morally corrupt’. The social, economic and political dimensions of the issue are still not beginning to get clear to these people.

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15.03.2005 Bicycle ambulance developed by ITDG Nepal in collaboration with the villagers in plain areas of the country is making patient transfers to hospital a lot easy and affordable.

15.03.2005 A comprehensive measles vaccination plan launched in 2001 has cut the worldwide death rate from the disease nearly in half and new successes are expected, says the American Red Cross, after a major conference to assess results and next steps last month.

15.03.2005 Ineffective governance and policy, from both the Indian government and also from India's NGOs, is failing the poor, according to a leading member of the National Advisory Council. Successful local pilot schemes are often ignored by the national government while NGOs often fail to deliver cost-effective services.