Full Coverage: Health

27.07.2007 Director of Health and Human Services Industry, Microsoft Asia Pacific Gabe Rijpma tells the ehealth team about Microsoft's investments to NGOs and allocation for healthcare IT. The interview also explores Gabe's candid views about India's e-healthcare scenario.

26.07.2007 The Special Representative, Ms. Hina Jilani, is particularly concerned about the lack of protection for defenders who are engaged with issues that are socially sensitive such as the rights of LGBT persons or public awareness on HIV/AIDS.

26.07.2007 BOSTON, Jul 25 (IPS) - A U.S. health agency has made research subjects of people in tiny Mossville, Louisiana by repeatedly monitoring dangerously high levels of dioxin in their blood while doing nothing to get the community out of harm's way, residents say.

26.07.2007 The former project manager of SS Norway (Blue Lady) has submitted an evidence which reveals that the toxic ship-for-scrap renamed Blue Lady and currently anchored 4000 feet off Alang coast has radioactive material on board in at least 5500 fire detection points.

26.07.2007 Indian Council of Medical Research is organising a 10-week training program on Bioethics at St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India from 20 August 2007 - 27 October 2007. The program will include a foundation course in bioethics, elective course in research ethics or clinical ethics, or ethics in social science research related to health.

26.07.2007 CIVICUS Secretary-General Kumi Naidoo shares his views on "How to address a climate in crisis" at the Andreas Papandreou Foundation. He is deeply concerned about the future of the planet and the coming generations as climate change affects all people and both poor and rich countries.

25.07.2007 The proposed, Kylleng-Pyndengsohing Uranium Project, in the north east Indian state of Meghalaya has run intro a controversy as land-owning villagers have given it the go-ahead but neighbouring villagers have not. Meghalaya is the only state in India where either the tribes or an individual owns the land.

25.07.2007 In the wake of the increasing number of clinical trials taking place in the country, and countless allegations about unethical practices, India is all set to introduce mandatory registration of all clinical trials.

24.07.2007 CanSupport is a Delhi based registered organisation that works on providing palliative care to cancer patients in collaboration with the Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital at AIIMS. For fundraising, they are staging a play by the noted actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Shah Pathak, 'DEAR LIAR', at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi on 11 August 2007.

24.07.2007 Dr. Vibhuti Patel reviews Tulsi PatelÂ’s Sex-selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies. This collection of essays unravels the reasons for the depleting child sex ratio in India, with focus on ways in which new reproductive technologies, such as the ultrasound, are misused at the family, community and state levels.

23.07.2007 The Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI) which is a national network of organizations and individuals dedicated to
protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding, is celebrating the World Breastfeeding Week 2007 by organising a hundred rallies across India on 1 August 2007.

23.07.2007 To enhance the reproductive health and livelihood opportunities for conflict-affected people in Nepal, a one year project, Sustainable Reproductive Health and Livelihood Programme (SUREHELP) has been initiated, with efforts by UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Nepal and Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN).

23.07.2007 The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) will shortly set up a taskforce to review its module on sex education in schools. Many Indian schools have refused to introduce the subject because of its sensitivities.

19.07.2007 DAR ES SALAAM, Jul 19 (IPS) - "I began walking when I felt contractions. I delivered on the roadside five kilometres from the hospital," says the 22-year-old Veronica Joseph.

19.07.2007 The Asian consortium of prominent NGOs, working on drug use, HIV, AIDS and poverty have announced the first Asian Consultation on the Prevention of HIV, related to Drug Use, on 28- 31 January 2008 at Goa, India.

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17.07.2007 The National Family Health Survey (NFHS-III), of India shows that the number of HIV-positive people in India has gone down drastically from the previous estimates of 5.3 million to 2.5 million. New figures show that India has fewer HIV cases than South Africa and Nigeria.

16.07.2007 In a major breakthrough for anti-mercury campaigners across the globe, particularly in Europe, it is now official that mercury-based barometers will be on the list of banned products that contain the deadly neurotoxin, in the backdrop of the recent European Parliament vote seeking to place a complete ban on its trade by 2010.

16.07.2007 HIV epidemic in Papua and West Papua provinces is spreading at a rate 15 times faster than the national average. Furthermore, the epidemic is now spreading among the general population, including among housewives and children

13.07.2007 The Atlas of Global Development: A Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges illustrates the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through world maps, tables, graphs, text and photographs. The 37th World Bank edition draws on the data of development indicators and promises to be more comprehensive than its earlier editions.