Full Coverage: Health

31.05.2005 Près du dixième de la population mondiale consommerait des aliments produits en utilisant des eaux usées. Étant donné la croissance démographique et le fait que davantage d’eau douce est détournée vers les villes pour la consommation domestique — dont 70 % repart en eaux usées —, le recours aux eaux usées est appelé à augmenter, tant en volumes qu’en superficies irriguées.

31.05.2005 The World Health Organization (WHO) is encouraging health professionals to be proactive in minimizing the problems caused by tobacco addiction, consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke. As a result, this year's World No Tobacco Day on May 31st is dedicated to the important role of health professionals in tobacco control under the banner of 'Health Professionals against tobacco, action and answers'.

31.05.2005 The United Nations System in Nepal, in support with its 17 implementing partners, is all set to implement its GFATM-funded-projects (Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) in six districts of Nepal.

28.05.2005 BUENOS AIRES, May 27 (IPS) - Twenty-year-old Romina Tejerina is scheduled to stand trial in June in Argentina, and could very likely be sentenced to life in prison for stabbing to death her newborn daughter.

27.05.2005 Former US president Bill Clinton's foundation will help train 150,000 doctors along with India's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to quickly spread anti-HIV/AIDS drugs to the maximum number among the country's estimated 5.1 million patients.

27.05.2005 Zdruzenijata na invalidi go poddrzuvaat noviot Pravilnik za znakot na pistap. Noviot pravilnik veli deka licata so invaliditet, koi nemaat ostetuvanje na dolnite ekstremiteti ili ostetuvanjeto na dolnite ekstremiteti im e pomalo od 70 otsto poveke nema da mozat so svoite avtomobili da se parkiraat na mestoto rezervirano za invalidi.

27.05.2005 The Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI) brings out Health Dialogue, which is a forum for exchanging news and views on primary healthcare in India. Access the January - March 2005 issue, which is in PDF, on Abled Differently.

26.05.2005 More than 75 people, mostly children, have died after drinking polluted water while another 6,600 have been hospitalised over the last six weeks in the Pakistani province of Sindh.

26.05.2005 The eradication of polio in Africa is the potential success story for health and development agencies which always seems to lie just around the corner. Problems in Nigeria led to a serious reversal of progress last year but now a major campaign is under way to vaccinate 77 million children.

25.05.2005 Lors de la plénière finale, Maria Nengeh Mensah soulignait que la stigmatisation est le plus important thème qui soit ressorti des discussions qui ont eu lieu tout au long du Forum XXX. Toutes les personnes travailleuses du sexe la vivent, ce qui en fait un problème social.

25.05.2005 All countries need health workers and you can't blame nurses and doctors for taking advantage of migration opportunities. But should rich countries poach staff without compensating the African country that financed the professional training?

24.05.2005 U.S. use of the Marshall Islands as a laboratory for atomic and thermonuclear testing as well as human radiation experiments has irreperably damaged life in the Pacific country. Tony de Brum, a Marshallese indigenous rights activist, told delegates at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference how this non-"rogue state" has already done tremendous damage with nuclear weapons.

20.05.2005 University of Glasgow and Bristol researchers have detected TV watching as one of the eight factors, ncluding lack of sleep and parental obesity, for child obesity.

20.05.2005 “…..Improving the ability of health information systems (HIS) to support efforts to address health-equity challenges should be viewed as a core objective. Inequities in health, its key determinants (including access to health care) and in the consequences of ill health occur among populations as a result of unfair discrimination based upon socioeconomic and other societal factors. There is a growing recognition of ongoing and often increasing health inequities both in developed and developing countries. Despite this recognition, health information systems continue to lag behind in terms of providing the information needed to assess and address health inequities. Without empirical demonstrations of such inequities, as well as a country-level capacity to use this information for effective planning, movement towards equity is unlikely to occur. Read this document by the World health Organization, published May 2005.

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18.05.2005 A World Economic Forum (WEF) report on gender says Nordic countries have the least ratio in gender gap while the populous Asian countries, including India, have very high gender gaps. The study studied economic participation, economic opportunity, political empowerment, educational attainment and health and well-being of women versus men.

18.05.2005 Stress and work condition in software firms often lead to infertility among the software developers, opine experts.

18.05.2005 National Informatics Centre is beta testing to launch OpenMED, an open access archive for MEDical and Allied Sciences.

18.05.2005 A study by University Hospital in Orebro published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine journal shows that using a digital mobile phone in rural areas may pose a greater risk of developing brain tumours than it does in urban settings.

17.05.2005 Bill Gates addressed health ministers from 192 countries at the World Health Assembly in Geneva Monday, calling for more research to develop solutions for diseases in poorer countries and for market incentives encouraging the private sector to invest in healthcare for the developing world. Gates put his money where his mouth is too, announcing a new $250 million commitment for its Grand Challenges global health research initiative.