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Need For Social Churning Emphasized In CMC Meet On ‘Leadership In Healthcare

...y and initiated programmes aimed at caring for the marginalised and the downtrodden, had organised the conference to bring together healthcare professionals from different parts of the country to consider effective, appropriate models of healthcare...

Mobile Clinic For Sex Workers In Pune

... who is also the clinic manager, told IANS. "The marginalised women have to play a greater role in curbing AIDS in the country and we hope the new initiative would also help thousands of sex workers to understand their role for a healthy society." Added Abhijit Sonawane, another doctor of the clinic: "As sta...

Reminiscing Into The Past Makes You Dissatisfied With The Present

...butes to the problem. "Elderly people are often marginalised because they cannot participate in life as actively as young people," observes Georg Adler, director of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany. "If older people are fully valued and taken seriously, then they go about their liv...

Leprosy Cured People In India To Be Trained By Japanese Trust

...me extent for the rehabilitation of these socially marginalised people," Sasakawa added. He said they were consulting lawyers to set up the foundation and hoping that the work in India could start within the next six months. Expressing satisfaction over India achieving the "leprosy elimination" status, Sasaka...

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

... show corporate social responsibility to bring the marginalised sections in to the mainstream.T.D. Dhariyal, deputy chief commissioner for disability, said that education remains a major challenge for the physically challenged people. While 93 percent of people of the category are below secondary level in rural...

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

... show corporate social responsibility to bring the marginalised sections in to the mainstream.' T.D. Dhariyal, deputy chief commissioner for disability, said that education remains a major challenge for the physically challenged people. 'While 93 percent of people of the category are below secondary level in ru...

India Urged to Take Stringent Measures to Combat AIDS

...challenge in South Asia because they're frequently marginalised within their own communities because of what they do," says Julian Schweitzer, Director for Human Development in the World Bank's South Asia regional team. Despite similar times of HIV introduction, epidemics in the various countries have played ou...

Smoking Increases Risk of HIV Acquisition

... of smoking and in many countries these groups are marginalised and it is difficult to offer any sort of support, “let alone smoking cessation services.” Source-Bio-BioTechnology SRI...

WHO Urges Higher Priority for Neglected Diseases

...ic impact on populations that are already the most marginalised in society," said Jai Narain, director of communicable diseases at the WHO's Southeast Asia office. "They not only push populations into poverty but trap those already poor into further poverty from which they cannot escape." Despite cost-effecti...

Unique Savings Scheme Aids Sex Workers

... three months. But banks do not want to have the marginalised as account holders, say officials. "Though I wanted to save money in a bank, I had problems opening an account due to my gender," Vidya, a transgender person, told IANS. "This programme has helped me start an account. I've now learnt to differentia...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...to uncertainty and meet the priorities of poor and marginalised people in different settings. With 4m pound of f...hat makes science and technology work for poor and marginalised people, is essential. Economic development, matters of health and disease, climate change; it is har...

Child Health Key Focus Among Muslim Nations

...bility to promote polio vaccination among poor and marginalised Muslim populations. '(We) hereby strongly affirm that polio eradication is an urgent priority for all OIC member states,' the draft statement said. Polio, a preventable disease, has remained endemic in four countries, three of which are OIC member...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

... "They're talking about upscaling programmes with marginalised groups," said Anjali Gopalan, head of the Naz Foundation, which works primarily with men. "There was quite a bit of silence on them earlier." Indians with HIV are still often treated as social outcasts, with reports of doctors shunning AIDS patie...

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