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South Africa dilly-dallying on AIDS situation

...ent remains unruffled. On March 13th it refused to declare AIDS a national emergency.While South Africa can feel that the situation is not as bad as that in Botswana or Zimbabwe, health experts warn that unless the government pulls its socks up, the situation might soon go out of control. ...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...tory transmission-free period before //the WHO can declare a local emergency situation over. The move, due to be announced at a news conference called for 0700 GMT, will close the current list of local transmission of the potentially fatal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which has killed some 800 ...

Encephalitis Claims 131 lives in Uttar Pradesh

...d: "It's strange that the government has failed to declare encephalitis an epidemic, even though it has been striking eastern Uttar Pradesh for 27 years." Referring to the number of deaths, he said: "The mortality is not unusual as even in countries like Japan, China, Thailand and Indonesia, where the dise...

Attitude Towards AIDS Patients – Time For A Change

...and people, out of fear of stigmatization, fail to declare their health status, the potential is great for the epidemic to gather pace. Everyone, including those who now stigmatize, is at risk.It would therefore only practical to support the government’s initiative to adopt a positive attitude towards AIDS v...

Top Pharmaceuticals Influence Doctors Prescriptions

...article in a peer reviewed journal to compulsorily declare any financial aid or link. The survey undertaken by Nature looked at the panels that write ‘clinical practice guidelines’ for doctors. The survey found that more than a third of authors declared financial links to the relevant drug companies, with ne...

Iranian Government Declares Holiday Due To Pollution

...ritical levels compelled the Iranian Government to declare two days of public holidays. All the organizations in the country will remain closed on// 7 and 8 December 2005. The primary, junior high schools, and kindergartens in Tehran have already been closed down by the Government, while the elderly and thos...

Indian Ayurveda in troubled waters abroad.

...rer of herbal products in the country will have to declare the content of heavy metals on the containers before exports. ...

Bird flu situation grave, but neighbours hushing it up: says Turkey

...uled by closed regimes, but these countries do not declare this because of their systems...

Renuka Chowdhury Stresses Importance of Bridging Gender Gap

... said that she would be urging the government// to declare the next decade as the "Girl Child" decade. "D...red flag over the issue and want the government to declare a decade for the girl child." she said in an interview to IANS. "I will prove that I can do wonders ...

African Union Launches A Programme On Acceleration of HIV Prevention

...decision by African ministers of health in 2005 to declare 2006 as a 'Year for Acceleration of HIV Prevention'. Since the pandemic broke in the 1980s, 50 million people have been infected in Africa, with 22 million deaths, while infant mortality, which had fallen by 50 percent between 1960 and 1990, has rise...

Arjun Singh Softens Stand on Quota But says Reservation Irrevocable

...ing how it is easy to obtain fake certificates and declare oneself as backward class. One gentleman has been exposing government staff who obtained their job on such false certificates. The biggest worry of the striking medicos is that the reservation will result in limited seats for the post-graduate adm...

What to do with the Dead if a Flu Outbreak Happens?

...orgue sites' to handle surges. However officials declare that the administration had helped to organize a two-day conference at Fort Monroe in Virginia in March with funeral directors, public health experts medical examiners and casket makers. Some of the ideas being considered are virtual funerals, backya...

So Called Benefits of Nicotine

... to fertility. Some of the pro-smoking campaigners declare that smoking can fight disease //. Sophie Goodchild and Martin Hodgson report clearly states that these are the new marketing strategies, which the cigarette company has adopted to conquer new markets and play down the risks. Recently they have also ...

Doctor Faces Disbarment For Working In Multiple Hospitals

...tting employed in two places," he said. “I need to declare it only at the time of inspection and no such inspection was carried out at JJ Hospital." Sion hospital dean ME Yeolekar said the matter had been referred to the Hospital's legal cell. “He has denied all allegations but we are awaiting the legal dep...

World Cup Fans go for Patriotic Hairstyles

...ncerned about looking beautiful. They just want to declare their loyalty to Germany," says Koehn. At Heiko Klunker's hair salon in the city of Bremen, colours are also a big seller. "We have templates to paint them on the head. A lot of guys are asking for mohawk hairstyles in the German colours." The ...

New Law On HIV/AIDS To Be Implemented At The Monsoon Session Of Parliament

...is reported that women will also have the right to declare an unregistered marriage void and have the right to make the sole decision on her pregnancy if she is HIV-positive. It was reported that the HIV/AIDS Bill, which was drafted by the Lawyers collective for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, h...

India Hopes to Become Free of Bird Flu Soon

India hopes to soon declare itself free from bird flu, incidence of which earl...this year, he said India would be in a position to declare the country free from this disease very soon. Cases of Bird flu virus was detected in Maharashtra a...

British Doctors Hold Talks to end Impasse of Indian doctors

...d for a judicial review and requested the court to declare the abolition of permit free training unlawful. (Source: IANS)...

Chikungunya Disease Hits Maharashtra

...rs. The State Government is still not willing to declare it as an epidemic despite its spread to 26 districts. The National Institute of Virology has now certified that Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg are the two districts which are not affected by the disease. Though the disease is rarely fatal it has already cl...

Mixed response Evoked Among The Tribal Elders For The Call On Smoking Ban

... has became the first marae in the South Island to declare itself smoke free, Harawira said, 'I hope that kaumatua throughout the country look to Te Rangimarie for inspiration and not feel guilty about telling their young ones they can't smoke on the marae grounds.' Ngapuhi chairman Sonny Tau, giving a ve...

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