State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
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Energy without the dirt? Making a case for the integration of biomass into energy policy in Nigeria
The energy poverty that typifies rural areas of developing countries in Africa is staggering in its proportions. These areas have become trapped in subsistence-level economies characterised by inefficient use of
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Dwindle, peak and pine
"HEALTH for all by the year 2000" was the proclaimed objective of the Primary Health Care Conference held at Alma Ata in 1978 under the aegis of the World Health Organisation WHO . The progress of this global programme is monitored by a process of period
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Limp target
Polio eradication targets strike a wrong note, while the WHO waxes eloquent
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Post election squabbles widen rift at WHO
Hiroshi Nakajima's re election as WHO's director general is being challenged on grounds of high handedness.
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High hopes
millions of people in tropical regions of Asia, Africa and South America suffer from permanent disability due to leprosy, river blindness, Chagas disease and lymphatic filariasis. The World Health
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Living longer, not better
THE average global life expectancy may be an unprecedented 65 years and still climbing, but according to the annual report of the World Health Organisation (WHO), people are not living
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Health watch
Life expectancy in India will be 71 by the year 2025, says the latest World Health Report
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Fatal fags
Smoking cigarettes could soon become the leading cause of adult death in the world
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Left in the cold
promoting non-chlorofluorocarbon (cfc) refrigerators worldwide, to ensure the safety of the ozone layer, is having an unfortunate fallout. Immunisation programmes which involve the use of
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Deadly games
A new report accuses Big Tobacco of sabotaging WHO's efforts to fight smoking