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The World Bank funds private Hospital in India

The World Bank, whose website (www.worldbank.org) declares "Our dream is a world free of poverty, 'is backing the construction of private hospital in Mumbai, India, a move which some health agencies fear sets a precedent for using development assistance for projects that will mainly benefit the rich. The bank has given the government of Maharashtra state an International Development Asso...

Shortage of funds for providing AIDS drug in Africa and India

The number of people on antiretroviral therapy has doubled to 1 million worldwide and tripled in Africa and Asia. Asia and Africa are two regions which are hit greatly by AIDS. Though, there is a immense increase in antiretroviral // treatment, it is still far less than the requirement, and the WHO goal to treat 3 million people by 2005, will never happen world wide critics say. Repor...

Shortage Of Funds In Primary Care Trust In UK

Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has urged hospitals to delay operations until the new financial year in April to help manage the prevailing situation regarding financial deficit in U.K.// The following move is expected to improve or rather eliminate all forms of financial shortcomings in the years to come. Ms Hewitt said: "I understand the anxiety patients will feel if they are living...

Stop spending on new treatments; allocate funds to improve the existing treatments.

A study conducted by Steven H. Woolf, M.D., professor and director of research in Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Department of Family Medicine reported that it will be fruitful // and more lives would be saved if US stopped spending on improving the medical facilities and provided the existing facilities to the public. The congress allocates funds to the National Institute of He...

More Funds Are Required For Immunisation Drive

As much as US$ 34 billion are required for immunizing the most deprived children in the world until 2015, according to Lob-Levyt of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI).// One third of this amount is required to be spent on vaccines alone. This will serve to reduce the number of deaths due to diseases like tetanus, polio, and measles. The GAVI meeting was attended by vaccine m...

UN Calls For More Funds For Earthquake Affected

There has been a considerable fall in the donations towards providing relief to the earthquake-affected people in Pakistan, according to the United Nations (UN). The December 2005 contributions were not even one third of what was received in November 2005. // Jan Vandemoortele, the UN Resident Coordinator has appealed to the donor nations to release the amounts that had been pledged by...

Hospitals May Face Funds Crunch

Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary of the UK has imposed a review with regard to the country’s largest hospital rebuilding project. //This move has raised doubts as to whether the private finance initiative (PFI) of the Labor Government aimed at modernizing the NHS will be put into operation. The financial viability and the purpose to be served by the ￡1 billion plan has been quest...

Australian Health funds stand accused

Private health insurers in Australia have been accused of using private hospital costs as a ruse to put up premiums, while not passing on cost increases to hospitals // . Private health insurers are believed to have again asked Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott last week to approve an annual premium increase of between 5 per cent and 7 per cent from April. If approved it would be their...

More Funds required for Asian Countries to fight Bird Flu

World wide fears of bird flu pandemic is high as researchers feel that if mutation of the bird flu virus occurs it may lead to millions // of death world wide as the virus could have the capacity to air borne transmission leading spread in humans. Bird flu infection started in China from spread to poultry of bird flu virus from the river Qinghai and China as reported its seventh death due to bi...

Shortage of NHS funds: Many Couples Denied Infertility Treatment

Infertility treatment is being denied to thousands of couples, currently on the NHS, despite the government guidelines that call for equality in access to related health care services. //This could be partly attributed to stringent criteria for the provision of assisted reproductive techniques (ART) such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other modalities. A majority of the primary h...

UK Woman To Raise Funds For Women Welfare

An UK born woman will be cycling across the Indian state of Rajasthan in an effort towards raising funds for the health of the women and children living in the state.// She will be covering 425 kilometers of desert land between 16 November and 26 November 2006. Jayne Watson who is a 36-year-old mother is reportedly undergoing training to accomplish this task. Watson, from Guisborough...

CNIC To Provide Funds To Mount Sinai School

A scientific interrelations program is headed by Dr. Valentin Fuster between the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, (CNIC), and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, for the benefit of cardiovascular research across the world. //A commitment of about US$ 6 million has already been made by the CNIC to Mount Sinai. The CNIC seeks to become a center of internati...

UK Funds For Indian TB Program

The UK will contribute US$ 74 million for combating tuberculosis (TB) in India. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also plans to raise its global funding// to fight TB to over US$ 900 million by the year 2015. As many as 8 million people across the world get infected by TB every year, and the disease also claims 2 million lives annually. The announcement of the two funding commi...

Ovarian Cancer Research Faces Funds Crunch

Ovarian cancer otherwise referred to as the silent killer is one of the leading causes of death among the female population. The famous comedian Lynda Gibson died of ovarian cancer two years ago. // Previous year ovarian cancer was the main cause of death of 800 Australian women. But the sad state is that the Federal Government, through the National Health and Medical Research Council, allotted...

Lack of Funds in Sudan-Pathway to Epidemic Outbreaks

World Health Organization (WHO) said that due to lack of funds, Sudan would face adverse health consequences. There is a reduced access to safe water// and healthcare services resulting in a possible significant rise in cases of malaria, meningitis, diarrhea diseases, acute respiratory infections and measles. Ala Din Alwan, WHO's representative for health action in crises said that this...

Funds Pumped In To Reduce Waiting List of Priority Patients

As the waiting list is growing day by day, the New South Wales (NSW) Government is planning to pump in more funds to reduce the queue//. It has decided to allocate to more money to the region's area health services. This step is thought to help cut elective surgery waiting lists. The Hunter New England and north coast area health services will get a funding boost of $500,000 e...

Nursing Home Residents Receive Appropriate Emergency Care Despite Poor Funds

Despite the widespread belief that residents of nursing home or hostel are transferred to emergency departments in hospitals, //it has been found that aged care homes effectively attend to the health care needs of the residents, even in the presence of poor funds. A new study has now revealed that the proportion of such transfers is relatively low. The study conducted by researchers at...

Haryana Government Discovers Misappropriation In School Funds

The Haryana government Wednesday discovered an embezzlement of nearly Rs.4.4 million from funds meant for the state's schools//. The irregularities in the fund use were discovered during checking of records of Faridabad district, said K.K. Khandelwal, director-general of school education. The embezzlement was done by four officials of the district education officer's office...

New Study Conducted To Evaluate The Success Of The Federal governments Funds For HIV/AIDS

The U.S. federal government plans to spend in this financial year $21 billion for HIV/AIDS research, treatment, prevention, and related activities//. Among doubts on whether this enormous expenditure is paying off, a new study was conducted which seemingly indicated that the expenditure is paying off and is more successful than of what was previously thought. The study that is now available on li...

Medical councils Claim Lack Of Funds For The New Medical Policy Of The Elderly

The new policy of free personal care for the elderly was planned as a new deal for Scotland's pensioners, which seemed to guarantee the dignity and security //for everyone in old age. But now this policy is filled with controversies over serious lack of funding. Many medical councils are alleging that they have already run out of money to provide the service. Earlier this week it was r...

B.C. Government Funds To Initiate Changes in Emergency Rooms

The B.C government has provided $7 million towards development of some of the province's busiest emergency rooms promising some long-awaited changes //. According to the incoming president of the B.C. Medical Association an increase in long-term care beds and acute care beds would help to provide a solution to the existing problems. However opinions differ, with Dr. Margaret M...

Funds Galore For Prescription–only Medicines in 'Down Under

At the Medicines Policy Summit a new report looked at new prescription- only medicines that were publicly funded between 2000 and 2006 //. In the last six years, 78 new prescription-only medicines have been listed on the Australian PBS, which was the equivalent of Pharmac. Of these medicines, 72 are registered in New Zealand, of which only 20 are funded by Pharmac. The re...

TV Star to Moon Walk for Raising Funds to Support Breast Cancer Research

Breast cancer campaigners and fund raisers are taking part in the moon walk which will be held at Edinburgh. About 7999 people are participating// in the walk along with the famous TV star Lorraine Kelly. They are going topless wearing decorated bras, to try and raise one million pounds for breast cancer and the Maggie’s Centre. They will start the walk at midnight and finish at seven o...

Funds Allocated to Illinois and Chicago to Prepare in Case of a Flu Pandemic

Federal officials made a formal announcement about providing Illinois and Chicago with additional financial assistance to the tune of millions of dollars//, for executing plans to combat influenza pandemic. Health officials have been perturbed about cases of bird flu in Europe and Asia, which has also raised concerns of an impending worldwide pandemic. The U.S. Health and Human Servi...

NIMH Grants Funds To Study The Impact Of Terrorism

A grant of $2.25 million has been awarded to the Kent State University’s Center for the Treatment and Study of Traumatic Stress-Summa Health System // , and University of Haifa's Center for National Security Studies by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study the impact of terrorism and its effect on mental health of the people. The four-year study will focus on studying about the sus...

Child death reduction needs five times more funds

The experts reveal that lot more funds are needed from the rich countries to achieve the universal goal of reducing deaths of children under five by two-thirds.// Five times more money is needed to meet the goal say experts, whose paper is one of the series of papers published online by the Lancet today. It coincides with a high-level meeting hosted by the journal, UNICEF and the Norweg...

Rally for More Funds in Cancer Research

Over 10,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, Wednesday to demand more funds for cancer research and prevention. Cancer survivor, Kathi Hansen traveled to the rally in Washington.// She said, "On the one hand, it's sad to know that cancer touches so many people, but on the other hand, it's empowering to see that there are so many people willing to volunteer, give their time and their en...

NIH Funds the Development of National Consortium of Universities

A $100 million grant has been given to a dozen top universities on Tuesday by the government in order to set up a network// that would hasten scientific discoveries towards better health care thereby trying to transform how medical research is done. This idea came about because of the increased specialization in medicine which has made it more difficult than ever for scientists from d...

Bill Gates pours in funds for diarrhea treatment reseach

A San Francisco nonprofit pharmaceutical company was given $46 million to develop its research on innovative treatments to deal with diseases // which cause diarrhea which is incidently the main reason for the loss of lives of almost two million chiidren around the world. The pharmaceutical company One World Health based in San Fransisco gets the grant for developing new drugs that w...

Funds for mental patient safety pledged by government

Thirty million pounds have been pledged to mental hospitals around the country by British government to ensure improved safety for inmates. A report published early this year by// National Patient Safety Agency alleged that there have been incidents of attempted rape and specifically mentioned 19 incidents which caused ripples in the mental health department and has catapulted this decision from...

Pleas for Funds to Meet Wait Time Guarantees

Provincial health ministers of Canada are now pressing for more funds in order to meet guarantees of wait time.// Wait times refer to the time allotted in days between a prescription for surgery and the actual date of its scheduling. This can vary from 2 days for a CT scan to 86 days for cataract surgery. It is fixed based on urgency of the operation. Reducing wait times for...

More Funds To Fight H5N1 – The Deadly Bird Flu Strai

Foreign funds to the tune of US$476 million have been donated for the cause of the global fight against bird flu// at the Mali conference on Friday. Already about US$600 million is left with the UN from the US$1.9 billion collected after the January conference in Beijing. The globe is united in the effort to combat the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, as it is feared that it could mutate...

Funds Allocated To Prevent Transmission of HIV From Mother To Child

The National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) of India, has come up with another project. This scheme named "Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS" //is expected to cost Rs 342.81-crores. The Global Fund aids the financial assistance for this scheme. The fund will also be spent for reducing the transmission of HIV to women from their partners and to provide H...

UK Experts Demands More Funds For Baby Research

According to a report from a charity, lives of thousands of babies are being jeopardized by lack of funding for baby research. // It said that ￡3.7m was spent on this subject during 2004-05, which accounts to just 0.3% of the total research budget. However, a Department of Health spokeswoman said that spending on baby research actually stood at ￡6m a year. "Quality proposals for researc...

Canada Funds State-of-art Infectious Disease Lab in Kenya

Health Minister Tony Clement cut a ribbon to open an ultra-modern, $4 million infectious disease laboratory in Nairobi on Friday, almost all of which was paid// for by the Canadian government. The money is well spent, said Clement during the ribbon-cutting. He served as Ontario's health minister during the province's SARS crisis in 2003. "Things can be tested here, research...

US Student Raising Funds For Cancer-Ridden Indian American

A young American university student in Chicago has launched a leukaemia awareness campaign and fundraiser for the benefit of an Indian American youth suffering// from the disease. Steve Hill, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago, started the campaign after coming to know that Nikit Patel, the 22-year-old son of a university campus coffee shop owner, has been diagnosed with acute mye...

Funds and Hope for Breast Cancer Patients

New Delhi: One in every 12 women is prone to breast cancer in India, yet the number of those treated for the disease is far lower because of the prohibitive costs. But as// another World Cancer Day comes around Feb 4, there's hope for such people - Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation is an NGO that steps in with financial help. It is the brainchild of Sameer Kaul, a senior oncol...

Funds Increased for Treating Bhopal Gas Victims

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh will spend Rs.30 million per annum for the treatment of cancer patients afflicted with the disease after the Bhopal gas tragedy// - over four times the amount it spends at present. This would be effective from the coming fiscal (2007-08). "The existing fund of Rs.7 million earmarked for the treatment of the affected cancer patients was insufficient....

More Funds Must Flow-NYC Mayor Talks Tough

New York city’s mayor Michael Bloomberg has called for more funds to flow, for those connected with the September 11 terrorist// attacks on New York City. He was speaking at a meeting where he released the first comprehensive profile on existing health needs of 9/11 victims. The 83-page script was released more than five years after doctors first noticed that rescue and reco...

Government Allot More Funds for Revised TB Program

New Delhi: India witnesses nearly 1.8 million tuberculosis cases every year and to tackle the health menace the government// has cleared Rs. 11.56 billion for the Revised National Tuberculosis Program (RNTCP)-Phase II. As per government estimates, nearly 40 percent of the population is infected with TB bacillus but only 10 percent break down to full-blown disease in their lifetime, M...