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Stringent budget for 2006/2007 portends unhealthy trends for HIV/AIDS patients.

...e Uganda AIDS Commission, Kihumuro Apuuli, and the envisaged budget cuts may hamper patients’ reach of anti-retroviral drugs// , which is extremely crucial to extend their lives. Presently almost 75,000 patients are using these drugs. Uganda has not been able to augment the annual healthcare budget over the y...

Minister of State For Industry Urges Corporate Sectors to help India’s Disabled Populatio

...te sector,' Kumar said. Though the government has envisaged a three percent reservation in jobs for the disabled, only 0.65 percent of such people have been absorbed so far. 'Lack of proper training, job information and overall social acceptance are the main reasons for the problem. I hope industry bodies li...

Vatican Vacillates on the Condom Ban

...e enforcement of such doctrines. The change being envisaged with respect to condoms will only pertain to special cases between married couples. This will certainly raise eyebrows among the conservative Catholics, especially the sudden turn of events and Pope Benedict’s sobered stance on the condom issue. Au...

Minister Of State For Industry Urges Corporate Sectors To Help India's Disabled Population

...te sector, Kumar said. Though the government has envisaged a three percent reservation in jobs for the disabled, only 0.65 percent of such people have been absorbed so far. Lack of proper training, job information and overall social acceptance are the main reasons for the problem. I hope industry bodies li...

Light at the end of the tunnel for patients suffering Keratoconus.

...onus, which can ultimately lead to blindness. The envisaged treatment will entail application of drops of riboflavin (vitamin B2) after the “skin” of the eye is removed, and allow the UVA light to fall on the eye, which will strengthen the cornea. This treatment will not improve the eyesight but it will certa...

Africa: Traditional Knowledge of Medicine Needs To Be Protected With Due Legislation

...nal director for Africa, Luis Sambo, has said that envisaged policies should include the parties from whom the traditional knowledge is sourced and the beneficiaries of the knowledge. The document, entitled 'Policy and legislative guidelines for the protection and promotion of traditional and indigenous medica...

Prevention better than fire-fighting. Hong Kong Beefs Up Precaution Against Bird-Flu

...0 meters away from any semblance of residents. The envisaged plant will house a huge slaughtering capacity of 40,000 chickens and 3000 pigeons, with a possibility to enlarge its slaughtering scope. The plant, estimated at 200 million HK dollars (25.64 million U.S. dollars), is expected to be enclosed and in...

‘Drug Resistant TB’ Rattles the Union Ministy

...t in Maharashtra and Gujarat. 100 MDR-TB cases are envisaged in the first phase of the initiative. Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said “The prevalence of MDR-TB among the new TB cases ranges between 1 and 3 per cent. Among the old cases, the prevalence is 12 per cent. The ministry is creating diagno...

Apprehension looms large over patient record system

...ncerns to be resolved in the near future." It is envisaged that when the system becomes fully operational, it will enable electronic record for 50 million NHS patients along with linking more than 30,000 Gp’s with 300 hospitals. ...

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