Full Coverage: Health

29.05.2007 JOHANNESBURG, May 29 (IPS) - About one million people in need of anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS are yet to receive it in four southern African states, according to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a global nongovernmental organisation specialising in medical services.

29.05.2007 During the Global AIDS Week in India, ActionAid enabled a group of HIV-positive people to share their concerns with parliamentarians in Delhi. The MPs expressed their support for better testing facilities, trained staff and access to treatment and a promise to AIDS activists to bring up the issue in the coming Parliament session.

28.05.2007 Orissa has initiated e-Pragati, a project that would connect even the remotest Anganwadi workers in the state and publish information on their work profiles and children under their care. The venture will complement the existing e-Shishu plan that cyber connects lakhs of children in state.

28.05.2007 Female health care volunteers are giving a new lease of life to mothers in Nepal. Child mortality rates have fallen enormously as similar community based approaches are gaining ground in health care.

28.05.2007 Orissa has initiated e-Pragati, a project that would connect even the remotest Anganwadi workers in the state and publish information on their work profiles and children under their care. The venture will complement the existing e-Shishu plan that cyber connects lakhs of children in state.

28.05.2007 This article articulates the need for funders and aid donors to rework their polices on long-term commitments for supporting national plans on health and education as the services are not getting delivered properly.

25.05.2007 A study from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reveals that Indian dams are the most polluting. Though dams produce renewable energy they also contribute to global warming by emitting huge amounts of methane into the atmosphere

25.05.2007 An Indian NGO, Sahayog, in partnership with other concerned organisations, is holding a round table discussion on maternal health on the International Day of Action for Women's Health on May 28 at Lucknow in northern state of UP.

25.05.2007 The HIV virus travels hundred times faster through blood than unsafe sex, say Mariette Correa and David Gisselquist, independent consultants involved in AIDS research and programming. The need is to make people aware of the dangers of non-sterile healthcare and focus policies on the ‘blood route’ to HIV infection.

25.05.2007 People gathered with candles burning in New Delhi, Sunday evening, to mark the start of the Global Aids Week. Eight other cities across the country would raise awareness through similar events as part of the global initiative to demand more resources to fight HIV/AIDS.

25.05.2007 Indian NGO Toxics Link is celebrating the week of World Environment Day (June 5) as E-waste Week. As a part of celebration, in collaboration with India International Centre Toxics Link is inviting for Environment and Health Public Lecture Series - E-waste: Where are we heading?, on 7 June 2007 at Conference Room 1, India International Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India.

24.05.2007 Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is organising a workshop on river pollution and cleaning on June 14-15, 2007 in New Delhi, India

24.05.2007 Indian NGO, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is organising a two-day media briefing workshop for journalists and media professionals on river pollution and cleaning strategies at India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India on June 14-15, 2007. The workshop will focus on Yamuna, a severely polluted river that cuts across the city.

23.05.2007 A coalition of Indian activists, the Rashtriya Jal Biradari, has launched a nationwide Jal Satyagraha (struggle for water) for water conservation. At its recent meeting at New Delhi, experts, government representatives and CSOs spoke on ways to restore the lost glory of the cityÂ’s river Yamuna and resolve the present water crisis.

22.05.2007 WHO and UN based FAO are organising an expert meeting on 21-24 May 2007 at Bilthoven, The Netherlands, to address the current state of knowledge on viruses in food. The purpose is to guide, advise and protect consumer health from food-borne viral illness and associated risks.

22.05.2007 WHO and UN based FAO are organising an expert meeting on 21-24 May 2007 at Bilthoven, The Netherlands, to address the current state of knowledge on viruses in food. The purpose is to guide, advise and protect consumer health from food-borne viral illness and associated risks.

22.05.2007 India will mandate a final product standard for soft drinks, claim a government expert committee report. This comes in the wake of a four-year fight by Indian NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on pesticide residues in soft drinks.

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18.05.2007 Austrian freelance writer Shelley Seale is researching a book - The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India - on the countryÂ’s 12 million orphans. She claims that social and economic circumstances increase the vulnerability of the children to the HIV virus which not only depletes the human body but also depletes families and communities of their assets.

17.05.2007 Indian radio broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) is broadcasting everyday a programme on women health issues from its 14 stations in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh government, UNICEF and the Department of International Development (DFID).