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President and Founder of National Obesity Forum Resigns

Dr. Ian Campbell, General practitioner and founder president of the National Obesity Forum has resigned from his post. Campbell is pioneer // in founding the national anti-obesity program at a time when people were ignorant about the health problems involved with obesity. Campbell’s resignation from the forum has taken many people into surprise, though there was lot of people in the foru...

Legislative Forum On HIV/AIDS Control In Bihar

Cutting across party lines, Bihar legislators today resolved to constitute a high-level body on the lines of parliamentarians' forum on HIV/AIDS to create awareness among the people of the state on the disease. // The resoultion to constitute the body was moved by state RJD President and national spokesman Abdul Bari Sidiqui at a seminar on HIV/AIDS, jointly organised by both the Hous...

Ireland’s Gay Men Have a Forum for Their Grievance

The Gay Men’s Health Survey (GMHS) has identified that recently a large number of gay men who have been tested positive for HIV experience unemployment//. It also shows that about 50% of gay men have had unprotected intercourse of which 7.6% were forced to engage in sexual activity against their will. It was also shocking to find that men in the age group of 20 to 40 were tested positiv...

Reforms Suggested By TN Doctors’ Foru

The Government Doctors’ Association of Tamil Nadu has called for designational equality with the private medical colleges in the State. // According to the association, the move will not add to the monetary burden of the State neither will it exempt the government doctors from performing their assigned tasks, such as night shifts. The association has also requested the Gove...

National Neonatology Forum Plans to Celebrate Newborn Week

To spread awareness on infant care, the National Neonatology Forum (NNF) has announced newborn week celebrations Dec 15-21. // The NNF's thrust this year includes provision of newborn care at home and recognition of danger signs, transferring sick newborns from home to referral centres and caring for sick or low birth neonates. The NNF has evolved a project cooperation agre...

Child Vaccines a Key Issue for OIC Forum in Malaysia

The problem of producing life-saving vaccines for children which are permissible under Islam was a key topic for health experts in talks here Tuesday ahead of an inaugural health conference for OIC nations . Senior health officials from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference's 57 member nations, along with the UN and other international agencies, met to tackle issues including...