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

...ere smoke and alcohol free. He said, 'While tribal leaders can give an indication, at the end of the day it is up to each marae committee to make the final call.' It has been reported that among Auckland's three main marae, Orakei, Waatea and West Auckland's Hoani Waititi Marae, only the last is smoke free. ...

The Aids Programme In Zambia Reported As A Success

...s saved many lives in its first two years.// The leaders made their report on Sunday at the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto. They explained that their new approach has proved the general thought that it is simply not possible to provide sophisticated AIDS care to patients in th...

Warrior Gene Claims Slammed by Maori

Maori leaders have slammed claims that Maoris carry a "warrior" gene which make them more prone to violence, risky behaviour and criminal acts, terming such claims// as dangerous and inflammatory. According to New Zealand researche, a genetic epidemiologist at E...

India Launches A Massive Campaign Against HIV/AIDS In Rural Areas

... on Tuesday, in the capital city of Delhi. Council leaders of around 500 villages attended the launch, and it... explained that the experiment of using mayors and leaders of local bodies for spreading awareness regarding HIV/AIDS has worked well in Africa and North Ameri...

AIDS Control Programme to Focus on District Level

...ip with a countrywide community of locally elected leaders in the rural and urban areas, as they have the potential to influence policies, programming and resource management," she added. India is currently home to 5.21 million HIV-infected people and 60 percent of them live in rural areas. "It is not th...

Experts Advice That Pregnant Women Should Receive Flu Vaccination

...hat this move has not yet got the approval of JCVI leaders and the ministers. They explained that that the flu vaccine is currently offered everywhere to generally and also to certain risk groups such as people with diabetes and respiratory disease. Many experts are also of the opinion that the vaccine shoul...

Closures of Maternity Units across Grampian Arouses Concern

...the Scottish Executive. Clare Lawson, one of the leaders of the Aboyne maternity unit campaign, said: "We are very disappointed and angry. We think the board has made an ill-informed decision. The fight isn't over. We are taking our case to Andy Kerr and hope to have it raised in parliament." Ms Lawson c...

Muslim Leaders Urge Community to Join Anti-Polio Drive

Muslim leaders of Deoband, Meerut and Delhi have issued a joint a...ajedeen, Naib Qazi Jenur Rashdeen and other Muslim leaders signed the joint appeal asking the people of the community to get polio drops administered to childr...

Targeting PARP1 Is Effective In Protecting HD Cells from Damage

...borators at the Scripps Research Institute – world leaders in computational chemistry – to conduct a more comprehensive virtual screen and select additional promising candidates for drug development. ‘Inhibition of PARP1 activity is thought to be potentially beneficial for treatment of cancer, neurodegenerat...

HIV/AIDS on Rise in Jammu and Kashmir

...ad of HIV/AIDS, the JKSAPCS has roped in religious leaders to educate people against the cause and spread of the deadly virus. Interestingly, religious leaders are no longer hesitant to talk about HIV/AIDS and safe sex now. Initially, the programme was imple...

AIDS Challenge in India

...All Have AIDS' and it brought together several key leaders from science, politics, entertainment and society ...nd if anyone had AIDS we all do. Some of the kew leaders of the event were Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela,Sir Elton John, actors Tom Hanks, Richard ...

Vulnerable Suffer As NHS Budgets

...,' he added. A survey revealed that most council leaders are angry about the cost shunting actions of the NHS. Some are resorting to taking legal action against the health service over the non-payment of bills. Chief executive of the NHS Confederation, Dr Gill Morgan said that the deficits only affected ...

The National Governors Association Releases Guidelines For Outbreak Of Bird Flu

...sday aims at guiding the governors and other state leaders on their preparation of what could be a darkened s...lead to a pandemic. The report indicated that the leaders of the state would have to revisit their laws, and make sure that they have sufficient preparation, ...

G8 Leaders Vows to Combat Infectious Diseases Worldwide

The Group of Eight (G8) leaders here Sunday set a series of guidelines for combati... to the well-being of the world's population," the leaders said in a statement. They noted in particular that the recent emergence of highly pathogenic avian...

Panel to Help Combat HIV/AIDS In Asia-Pacific Region

...ion is to generate adequate information to show to leaders and governments in the region the urgent necessity to invest in (efforts to combat) AIDS if they are to maintain their achievemens in development," said the former RBI governor. The commission will study the issue, the projection for the future and ...

Global Health Issues To Take Priority In The Current G8 Summit In Russia

...ing the focus on infectious diseases, but urged G8 leaders to stick to their commitments. According to a progress report, which was released earlier in the month by DATA, an international debt relief group, it was reported that the G8 has yet to fulfil earlier pledges to provide antiretroviral drugs to Afric...

Transgender Experience - A Tool to Analyze Gender Difference By Stanford Scientist

... with the Pioneer award. And he called on academic leaders to speak out when departments aren't diverse. Barres said that critics have dismissed women who complain of discrimination in science as being irrational and emotional, but he said that the opposite argument is easy to make. "It is overwhelmingly m...

Delhi to get New Dental Centre to Boost Oral Health

...02-October 2005, sought support from dental health leaders in the country to help eradicate dental caries in children. The new centre will provide critically needed preventive dental services, conduct education training for local dental health professionals and distribute one million dental health packs co...

BJP Seeks Tougher Laws Against Pre-Natal Sex Tests

...eir parents. Swaraj, accompanied by Mahila Morcha leaders later submitted a memorandum addressed to President A P J Abdul Kalam, expressing their concerns over female foeticide and seeking tougher laws to check the practice. Source:PTI News...

Family, Books Best Stress-busters for Indian CEOs

...ew industry study. "About 70 percent of industry leaders coping with work pressure suffers more from mental... countries takes the maximum toll on the corporate leaders than here in India," the study found. (Source: IANS News)...

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