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Delhi To Host International Women’s Congress From Nov 2

...s have been initiated to facilitate more realistic global experience sharing, where delegates from various countries can watch and learn from the real-life problems and solutions of other participating countries," said Indira Kothiar, chairman of the congress. One of the unique features of the Congress wou...

AIDS Numbers Continue To Rise : WHO

...ty is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip global and national efforts to contain it,' said UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot. 'It is clear that a rapid increase in the scale and scope of HIV prevention programmes is urgently needed. We must move from small projects with short-term horizons to...

Health Care Ties To Get Stronger Between India And Britain

..., more specifically to methods of tackling certain global health problems. The Minister also had a detai...tive Director of UNAIDS, Peter Piot, regarding the global AIDS/HIV situation and the situation in India in particular. While responding to questions raise...

New outbreak of birdflu reported in Northern China

...us highlyinfectious between people could lead to a global human pandemic, killingmillions. (IANS)...

Health Conclave to be opened by minister

...dwai will also address the conclave. In 2000, the global community made a historic commitment by laying down the MDG to be achieved by 2015. Three out of the eight goals are directly related to health. 'In 2005, we are a little more than halfway towards the MDG target date,' a CII statement said. (IANS...

More Married Women In India Are Getting Infected By HIV

...rt stated. The multilateral body is among several global bodies assisting India in tackling the burden of the disease through awareness campaigns and providing anti-retroviral treatment. (IANS)...

DNA Vaccine Trials Against HIV Virus In Sweden Nurture Hope

... grants for AIDS is said to have prompted for this global competition. Detractors have raised skeptical concerns regarding the materialization of a DNA vaccine for HIV infection. The situation though seems promising with such clinical trials reporting success from time to time....

International conference on Ayurveda to be held on Kerala

On the global ayurveda submit to be held on Friday about 100 del...utions will participate in the three-day submit of global ayurveda meet. On the eve of the birth century celebration of Vaidyaratnam Group of institutions f...

Bird Flu Infection Of Chinese Girl Prompts Fear Of Spread Across Asia

With increasing global fear regarding the spread of the deadly bird flu, official reports from China has reported that a 10-year-old Chinese girl is the latest victim to be infected with the disease//. The victim hails from the southern Guangxi region and has been sufferin...

India To Produce More Cost Effective Vaccines

...as also promised to raise its contribution towards global immunization US$ 75 million in 2006, and seeks to raise this further to US$ 1 billion by 2015. An additional amount of US$ 750 million has been pledged by the Gates Foundation to GAVI until 2015. Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, the Health Minister of India st...

Watch Station Set Up In China To Monitor Bird Flu Outbreak

...the condition. It is expected to arrive before the global summit, scheduled to be held in Beijing between the 17th and 18th of January. ...

Fifth case of bird flu in China confirmed

...read from person to person, potentially sparking a global pandemic. Meanwhile, the State Forestry Bureau yesterday set up a State-level surveillance station for wild-life epidemics in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province. The station will monitor various infectious diseases and their sources among w...

U.S. Hospitals may help Spread Bird Flu Pandemic

... Bank has estimated that a pandemic could cost the global economy $800 billion. U.S. President George W. Bush released a $7.1 billion bird flu plan in November but Congress has yet to fund it. One part of the plan involves building stockpiles of influenza drugs, which would not provide a cure but which mi...

Roche confirms Tamiflu production talks in US

...rights and production techniques, in the face of a global health risk, they've moved swiftly to partner with multiple companies to dramatically increase production of this potentially life-saving drug." The drug is in short supply in many parts of the world because of the fear of bird flu, a form of infl...

Environmental Abuse Causes Health Hazards

..., air and water pollution has lead to an increased global warming and emergence of resistant microorganisms, pollutants that trigger cancers and chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes and heart attacks. World Health Organization have urged the people to be more responsible in sustaining our normal ecos...

$35 billion needed globally for immunization

...the goal. ''For the first time we have a costed global picture, a global strategy and a process for tracking needs against the available resources. This information was a gr...

Health bonds to immunize the poor

...essible to the poorest of the poor, and strengthen global immunization efforts.// The move will provide an ... of their immunization expenses. Immunization is a global public good and until these countries are able to take on a greater proportion of their immunisation...

Health Problems Due To Ecosystem's Degradation

... declared that 60% of the benefits provided by the global ecosystem is being used unsustainably or degraded, //resulting in negative effects on the health of human beings. The benefits that are thus misused are clean air, fresh water, a relatively stable climate and the wildlife. The speed at which the na...

EU medical chief says Europe ready for bird flu

...orld. Health experts have warned of a catastrophic global pandemic if the virus mutates into a form that easily passes among people....

Poultry Workers To Adopt Anti-Flu Guidelines

...om one human being to another, then a catastrophic global pandemic may well be the end result. In the meantime Birdlife International has denied that the virus is being spread by migratory wild birds. There has been no sign of the virus in the migratory routes of the birds, according to the organization. ...

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