First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Saved by smokers
States in US are spending their tobacco winnings in every way except one:trying to stop their citizens from smoking. In fiscal 2002, only one dollar in 20 of the settlement money will be used for
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Donors to extend aid for health sector
International aid agencies working under the cover of the UNO and some foreign donor agencies have agreed to extend grant-in-assistance to strengthen the NWFP (Pakistan) health sector for meeting the
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Nigeria buying generic drugs for an AIDS treatment trial
Nigeria will begin a trial program next month to use cheap, imported generic drugs to treat people infected with the virus that causes AIDS, a top official said today. The spread of AIDS in Nigeria,
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Hale and hearty
A Mumbai-based doctor couple's curative programme comes as good news to heart patients. Coronary artery disease in India is rising at an alarming pace and experts believe that by 2015 it would be a
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China's once silent AIDS victims are talking-online
Everyone in China knows that an official nod can do wonders for your profile. That's even turned out to be true for the Shanghai-based AIDS Patients' Forum, an online discussion website for people
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H.I.V. 'explosion' seen in East Europe and Central Asia
H.I.V.. infections are rising faster in Eastern Europe and Central Asia than anywhere else in the world and are 15 times as high as they were three years ago, the United Nations said yesterday, in
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South Africa sued over Aids policy
The South African government was taken to court for failing to provide treatment that can prevent mothers passing the HIV virus to babies. Doctors in state hospitals are not allowed to prescribe
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CDC releases smallpox response plan
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) November 26 released "Interim Smallpox Response Plan and Guidelines," a document that outlines how health officials all over the country
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AIDS and death hold no sting for fatalistic men at African bar
Cynicism about condoms is virtually universal. For years, the government's slipshod testing practices had made South Africa a dumping ground for substandard foreign condoms, and many tell stories of
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USDA to double cattle testing
The US Department of Agriculture is to double its cattle testing programme and step up other safeguards against bovine spongiform encephalopathy or "mad cow