Full Coverage: Health

31.08.2005 A 15 months long “e-Health & Learning” (e-HL) project was deployed in January 2003 by Sustainable Development Networking Programme(SNDP), which was funded by the European Commission under the Asia IT&C programme.

30.08.2005 Here is a list of publications - that deal with development issues, Churches, health and funding - from UK-based funding agency Tearfund. These can be obtained from the Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI).

30.08.2005 Panos south Asia is offering fellowships to print journalists from India to research the human rights and health issues of Dalit women. The fellowship begins from October 2005 - May 2006.

30.08.2005 Eleven young documentary filmmakers – eight women and three men - from eight countries in Asia met for a primary screening of their films on Voluntary Confidential Counselling and Testing (VCCT) for HIV/AIDS in New Delhi last week.

29.08.2005 A organização não-governamental Rede de Amizade iniciou desde o último sábado, 27, o Projeto Amazonas da Noite, em Manaus – AM. O projeto trabalha com capacitação em prevenção às DST/Aids para profissionais do sexo na capital do Estado e foi inspirado em um projeto inicial da ONG, realizado em 2002, e chamado Protagonistas da Noite, que durou cerca de seis meses.

29.08.2005 Indian hospitals are initiating steps on this journey by implementing Hospital Information Systems (HIS). HIS are evolving from integrated order entry systems, administrative systems, and departmental subsystems within a hospital, by extending and integrating into ERP.

29.08.2005 Dr D.L. Goyal, Director Health Services, has issued strict instructions to the ultrasound centres operating in the district to desist from conducting sex determination tests.

26.08.2005 Avec plus de 500 cas de blessures par agression violente traitées dans ses deux hôpitaux dans la ville de Galkayo en Somalie centrale cette année seulement, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) veut sonner l’alarme sur les bains de sang incessants à travers le pays et le peu d’attention accordée au peuple de la Somalie par les organisations humanitaires et la communauté internationale

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26.08.2005 Four doctors and a technician from Afghanistan are in the south Indian metro of Chennai getting training on telemedicine to enable them to reach out to ailing Afghans in rural and farflung areas. The doctors say that there are no facilities to reach out to those in rural areas or to get in touch with specialists in other countries.

26.08.2005 A first ever Media Dialogue on HIV/AIDS is taking place in the state capital of Uttar Pradesh at the behest of Unicef and the UP State AIDS Control Society (UPSACS) along with the Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS.

24.08.2005 Thousands of children born to HIV-positive mothers are being abandoned, new data shows, and the women themselves face widespread discrimination, even from doctors.

24.08.2005 While the rates of maternal mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean are not the world's highest, a worrying disparity within a small group of countries and especially among indigenous groups and afro-descendants exist, reveals a U.N. assessment of the region's progress in meeting the MDGs.

24.08.2005 STOCKHOLM, Aug 23 (IPS) - The crisis-weary African continent, which has two of the world's longest rivers -- the 6,400-kilometre Nile River and the 4,370-kilometre Congo River -- is suffering from a virtual economic paradox: a shortage of water amidst potentially plentiful supplies.

23.08.2005 New Delhi-based NGO, Centre for Science and Environment, reports on how the Indian government suppressed findings on notorious pesticide endosulphan which has maimed many in the south Indian state of Kerala.

23.08.2005 A report released Monday by leading development agency, Plan International, reveals that despite Asia's much lauded development and economic growth rates, millions of children in the region live in abject poverty and continue to die before their fifth birthday as a result of malnutrition, and little or no access to sanitation.

22.08.2005 PLACHIMADA, India, Aug 21 (IPS) - In the end it was the ''generosity'' of Coca-Cola in distributing cadmium-laden waste sludge as ''free fertilizer'' to the tribal aborigines who live near the beverage giant's bottling plant in this remote Kerala village that proved to be its undoing.

20.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 20 (OneWorld) - Health campaigners remain on a war footing against the U.S. soft drink industry, which this week announced a plan to limit sales of products blamed for obesity among American schoolchildren.

19.08.2005 A Washington-based NGO has brought a lawsuit against the U.S. Agency for International Development for requiring from them an anti-prostitution pledge in order to qualify for funding. DKT provides HIV/AIDS prevention services to sex workers worldwide, and say the policy undermines their work to stem the spread of AIDS and human trafficking.

19.08.2005 Many male Miskito of Nicaragua and Honduras are permanently disabled from diving for lobsters at great depths and having no protective gear provided them. The Miskito however are only one of the many indigenous populations affected by health and human rights problems in Latin America, says Rocio Rojas.