Two Out of Five Cancer Cases in India Due to Tobacco
...sentatives from various government departments and civil society groups. In recognition of outstanding a...ed in four categories - individuals, institutions, civil society organisations and state governments on May 31, the World No Tobacco Day every year. Sourc...Tobacco Control Laws to Be Regulated in India
...sentatives from various Ministries/Departments and civil society groups. In recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of tobacco control, we have instituted the 'Tumbakoo Virodh Puraskar' which will be conferred in four categories viz. individual/Institutions/civil society organizations/state ...Laws on Mentally Ill Endangers Public Life
...eatment of the patient is seen as violation of the civil rights of the patient. But the authority fails to ...lding the patient’s rights is in a way denying the civil right of the normal people to live in peace without fear. The details about Seung-Hui Cho's excha...Electronic Tagging - for the Elderly Now!
...with complex needs. Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil rights group Liberty, warned against "gimmicks" which appear to offer "cheap and quick fixes."/M...UK Mental Health Reforms Will Do More Harm Than Good, Critics Warn
... say, will place unnecessary restrictions on their civil liberties. Sophie Corlett, an official of the advocacy group Mind, said: 'The claim that supervised community treatment will help people get the treatment they need is, at best, misleading. 'People are routinely turned away from over-stretched m...Indians Add to Rich Diversity of Virginia Tech
...s killed in Monday's shootout, was a member of the civil and environmental engineering department. It is also one of the few civilian universities in the US with a corps of cadets or a full-time military training component, says the official Web site of the university. With seven medal of honor recipie...Africa Challenged To Produce Its Own Generic Drugs
...ation and reporting mechanisms, as well as greater civil society and private sector involvement in controlling the three diseases. ANN...India to Hike Free Treatments in Fight Against AIDS
...consultations between 14 working groups, e-forums, civil society organisations, NGOs and development partners, including a World Bank pre-appraisal team. Source-IANS/B...Global Fund Provides $68M for HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria Programs in Cameroon
... Central Africa, said that government agencies and civil society groups are making good use of Global Fund grants. Programs supported by the Global Fund already have provided antiretroviral drugs to 770,000 people with HIV, given drugs to two million people with TB and distributed 18 million insecticide...All U.S. States To Begin Names-Based Reporting of HIV Cases by End of 2007
...network computers or laptops. The bill also allows civil lawsuits for malicious disclosure of such information, according to the AP/Journal Register. Source-Kaiser Family Foundation/L...International Health Security to Be Tackled on World Health Day
...ealth security," Chan said. Governments, donors, civil society, the private sector and communities will be urged to take collective action, WHO said. Source-IANS...Net Laid Out for Money Hungry Doctors
...he doctors come with solid proof of their motives, civil sanctions against the doctor can also be stamped. ...isting law, will now face the additional threat of civil sanctions. This move designed to open another avenue of prosecution when it has been difficult to...Supreme Court Seeks Replies From Cola Firms
...within six weeks. Centre for Public Interest, a civil society group had filed a public interest litigation which stated that that the cola drinks were unsafe for human consumption. This was heard by a bench headed by justice A K Thakker who had also asked the NGO to file its reply. An affidavit was f...Jolie-Pitt Donate $100,000 for Sudan Hospital
... fled to the city when he was a boy during Sudan's civil war in the late 1980s. His statement added: "Jolie and Pitt demonstrate the American spirit of generosity. Hopefully, their donation will inspire others to join with us to rebuild southern Sudan." Sudan has always been close to Jolie's heart. As ...Solutions Possible for Providing Water and Sanitation in Poor Urban Settlements, Says WaterAid
...ration with SHGs; building people’s agency through civil society; the inclusion of slums in all bilateral projects/loans; and the mapping of slums on a priority basis. The six NGO’s felicitated were Sambhav (Gwalior), Arambh (Bhopal), Gramalaya (Trichy), Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (Ranchi), Ruchika Social...Armed Forces Introduce Yoga, Counselling to Counter Stress
...all chief ministers had been requested to make the civil administration more responsive to the problems of soldiers and their families, while steps were being initiated to strengthen the state- and district- level soldier's welfare boards. This would ensure the boards "take the necessary follow up actio...India to Market Female Condoms
...00 sex workers in the country with the help of 400 civil society groups. The first part of the initiative, to cover 3,000 sex workers, will be completed by the year-end. The scheme is being implemented in eight states simultaneously, with an initial acceptability study done in Tamil Nadu and an operatio...Developing Countries may Fail MDG Sanitation Targets
... UN Millennium Development Goals because they lack civil engineering capacity, warned a civil engineering// professor. Jennifer Davis of Stanford University said international aid projects too...Ex-workers Ask HLL to Accept Liability for Mercury Deaths
...ury-induced damage. Many in the crowd, including civil rights and environmental activists, had also worked with Natarajan in the factory on the outskirts of this resort town before it was shut down by the government in March 2001. A large number of workers were exposed to mercury because of unsafe wor......onvergence of societal leaders, community members, civil servants and celebrities to acknowledge the incomparable efforts of my friends (sex workers) in playing a central role in HIV prevention," the actor said. The event, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Richard Gere's Heroes Proje...