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'Young and their Reproductive Health' - Theme of World Population Day

...oductive health in development was acknowledged by leaders at the World Summit, last year.Nearly half of the world's population is below the age of 25 years, of which nearly three billion will soon be of the reproductive age. Easy access to reproductive health, including family planning, adequate pregnancy c...

Human Chain Seeks AIIMS Status For Tiruchi Medical College

...ity Mayor Charubala Thondaman, local CPI-M and CPI leaders and Congress MLA Rajasekaran were among those who participated in the human chain. Source:PTI News...

AIDS: Why the pandemic outpaces us

...istory of the pandemic, the Declaration, signed by leaders from 189 countries, had set out a series of time-bound targets to halt and reverse the disease. The 2006 Report on Global AIDS Epidemic revealed that the epidemic is slowing down globally and there is a five-time increase in international funding t...

Angola To Launch A Massive Health Protection Campaign For The Children

...oil-financed reconstruction boom in Angola and her leaders are now stating that they are devoted for the improvement of the basic health care, developing, and implementing other social programs. But it is widely feared that when health workers roll out the vaccination and anti-malaria campaign throughout the...

UN To Launch Health Awareness Campaign In Afghanistan

...f community health workers, teachers and religious leaders taking key health and hygiene messages directly to households. About 50,000 children under the age of five die every year in Afghanistan of diarrhoeal diseases. 'Too many children die every year from preventable diarrhoeal disease,' UNICEF office...

45 Dead, 5000 Affected By Malaria

...tested positive for malaria. Meanwhile, political leaders of the two districts claimed that acutal malaria death toll was much higher than the government figure. Yesterday RSP MLA, Nirmal Das had told the West Bengal assembly that a large number of people had died of malaria in North Bengal. Source:PTI New...

Malawi Has More Work Against Aids - UN Reports

...the president Bingu wa Mutharika and officials and leaders of various organizations and donor agencies regarding precautions to be taken against Aids. Biswick Mwale, the executive director of the National Aids Commission, said nearly 50,000 people in Malawi received free anti-retroviral drugs, in the last...

Rajasthan Government Plans to Monitor Private Health Centres

...he former Congress regime. However, some political leaders and health organisations pressurised the then government to reconsider the provisions of the bill before sending it to the governor for his assent. Accordingly, it was refereed to a six-member expert Committee, which submitted a favourable report. ...

India Should Learn From China On Pharma Industry: KPMG

...estic market are the lowest in the world. Industry leaders will have to work with government on issues of affordability to point out that price controls are limited in their ability to increase access to new and effective treatments,' it said. (Source:PTI News)...

APEC Launches Bird Flu Exercise

...e under the APECAction Agenda endorsed by the APEC leaders in Busan, South Korea lastNovember. The scenario script envisages an outbreak of H5N1 influenza thatstarts from a fisherman's family and over a 28-day period assumeshuman pandemic proportions. The exercise will test vital linkages between the APE...

India & Singapore Join hands to Fight Terror & Drug Trafficking

...ng of South-East Asian countries. The Singaporean leaders have stated that strict vigilance had helped avert terrorist strikes and combat drug trafficking in the city-state....

Quota System: Diverting Attention From The Real Problem

...en put on the national agenda by India's political leaders when the country is facing so many other more pressing problems. // Sam Pitroda was right in suggesting that quota should not be the criterion for selecting students for institutions of higher education. But his suggested strategy of increasing the...

Health Minister Praises Efforts By NHS In Reducing Patient Waiting Time

...atients and meet NHS waiting time targets. Medical leaders have warned that the focus on attaining lower waiting times has led to management asking consultants to prioritise operations on wisdom teeth over treatment for cancer patients. Andy Kerr, has called for an inquiry into the allegations and described ...

Private Hospitals, Clinics, Nursing Homes Observe Strike

...rvation campaign has also gained momentum here and leaders of various organisations have in a meeting resolved to take out a procession tommorow demanding implementation of the reservation hike as soon as possible. Elaborate security arrangements have been made to maintain the law and order sitution in this...

New Test For Detecting Trachoma

...equipment," said Claude-Edouard Michel, one of the leaders of the programme. The results of their study appear in The Lancet. The researchers have adapted the 8cm long trachoma dipstick test on the "FirstBurst" test, which became so successful in detecting the sexually transmitted form of Chlamydia. Dr Hel...

Religious Leaders Come In The Way Of Euthanasia

...he right to end their suffering. But the religious leaders say that nobody has the right to take away their life. The opponents were Lord Alexander Carlile, a member of the opposition Liberal Democrats, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Roman Catholic Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and Chief Rabbi Si...

ISB To Establish Research Chair On Real Estate And Urban Studies

...producing a new generation of world-class business leaders in a variety of fields. I want to support the ISB efforts by adding a new dimension of real estate,' said Reddy. Indu Projects is a diversified company having core competency in building, developing and promoting IT parks, integrated townships, ur...

Arab World Wakes Up To Drug Addiction

...rt said that more and more officials and religious leaders were stressing on the need to kick the habit through speeches and religious sermons. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that there are about 500,000 drug abusers in the region. "It's no longer quiet, and no longer hidden," Dr. Farida...

Review of Reversal of Spread of Diseases in Africa

.../Aids, malaria, tuberculosis. Five years ago the leaders had set a target of increasing health spending to at least 15 per cent of national budgets in order to accelerate a continental response to the pandemic of Aids as well as other diseases. However progress has been dismal. Only Botswana, for instanc...

240 Hours And Counting As Mahajan Continues To Battle For Life

...brother from close range. Among the front-ranking leaders of the main opposition party, Pramod Mahajan is co...and outside, and is known to enjoy close ties with leaders of almost all parties. Born Oct 30, 1949, he is a graduate in physics and journalism as well as pos...

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