Full Coverage: Health

27.12.2006 Holland-based NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said violence or its threat appears to have a large impact on the psychological health of people in the trouble-torn State.

22.12.2006 A new study by the Washington DC-based think tank Resources for the Future (RFF) has found that the introduction of compressed natural gas (CNG) as a fuel for vehicles in Indian capital New Delhi has made the most significant impact on air quality in the city. The study warns that the gains from CNG will be lost if vehicles do not reduce the number of kilometers travelled.

22.12.2006 A professor of philosophy and law at the University of Chicago, Martha Nussbaum has made a significant contribution in promoting the capabilities approach to development, which regards central human capabilities (such as the ability to live a full life, engage in recreational activities and participate in politics) as the framework for development.

20.12.2006 Telemedicine, modern communications technology, is raising hopes in healthcare and ability to monitor patients at a distance means they can leave the hospital earlier and avoid unnecessary visits to the doctor, which also saves money

19.12.2006 GUALEGUAYCHU, Argentina, Dec 18 (IPS) - With a nativity scene and a big Christmas tree set up on the highway to the nearby bridge leading to Uruguay, residents of the Argentine town of Gualeguaychu plan to continue blocking traffic between the two countries until a pulp plant being built on the other side of the river moves elsewhere.

19.12.2006 Declining fertility rates have changed the age structure of India’s population, resulting in a “bulge” in the working age-group. This “demographic dividend” has improved the dependency ratio leading to the hypothesis that the bulge in working population will lead to an acceleration in growth argues C P Chandrasekar, Jayati Ghosh and Anamitra

15.12.2006 Com esse programa, o governo cubano quer devolver a visão a dez milhões de latino-americanos pobres. Em apenas dois anos e cinco meses, já foram atendidos mais de meio milhão de pessoas de 28 países do Terceiro Mundo.

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14.12.2006 An international fund said on Wednesday it had greatly expanded malaria prevention and treatment efforts this year that have helped beat back the disease in pockets of Africa, but much more needs to be done.

08.12.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 8 (OneWorld) - Owners of more than $278 million in shares of Dow Chemical field a shareholder resolution this week demanding the company address outstanding issues from a 1984 explosion at a pesticide plant in India.

07.12.2006 The end of hostilities in Nepal and the new political climate could help the Himalayan country to eradicate leprosy in two years, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

06.12.2006 The global diabetes epidemic is projected to affect 7 percent of the world's adult population by 2025 as developing countries embrace bad health habits associated with affluence.

06.12.2006 Scientists have created an online global map of communities that are at high risk of malaria, which could prove a valuable tool for policymakers targeting resources to fight the disease. The map links data collected by population surveys to Google Earth's online map of the world designed using satellite photographs.

04.12.2006 Coinciding with World AIDS Day, the USAID-Nepal has pledged $25 million for two new health programmes for the next three years. Most of the estimated 70,000 people living with HIV/AIDS do not know they are infected, and HIV/AIDS related stigma and discrimination prevent them and others from seeking HIV counselling and testing, prevention, care and treatment services.

01.12.2006 NEW YORK, Nov 30 (IPS) - Smallpox, polio and a host of other contagious, often fatal diseases have been stopped in their tracks by simple vaccines. More than two decades into the quest to untangle the secrets of the notoriously changeable HIV virus, is there still reason for hope?

01.12.2006 We need to work together: governments, civil society, the private sector, religious organisations, and others — including those suffering from the disease and their loved ones- David C. Muldord reflects in the Hindu.

01.12.2006 Advance of HIV/AIDS is markedly reducing economic and employment growth in countries hit hardest by the epidemic, jeopardising their efforts to reduce poverty, create new jobs — especially for youth — and fight child labour, according to a report by the International Labour Office (of the International Labour Organisation) on the eve of World AIDS Day.