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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
At least 20 million people in Bangladesh are suffering from lymphatic filariasis, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes. To eradicate the disease, the government has asked for help from the World Health Organisation. A project entitled
Government hospitals in India have a reputation for being noisy places. But there is a noticeable difference if you reach the oncology department. Even if it is more crowded than most other sections, you can sense a strange calm in the Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital of the All India Institute …
candida albicans is a common skin fungus. In fact, it is the usual culprit whenever someone, whose immune defences are down, contracts a skin infection. The result of the infection is more of a nuisance than anything else. However, as frequently is the case, Candida sometimes escapes from the skin …
To ensure that the South East Asian Region can have the best health care possible, the 53 session of World Health Organisation (WHO) for this region has made several recommendations. These include, insuring that no unfair disparities occur in providing healthcare to rich or poor people and enhancing health infrastructure. …
• The Nigerian government; to discredit reports of genocide • The fascist junta in Argentina during the 1970s and 1980s; to help attract foreign investment • South Korea; to help avoid the focus on the human rights situation during the 1988 Olympics • The Mexican government in 1990; to sell …
you may not have heard its name but Burson-Marsteller ( bm ) is the world's largest public relations firm, with 63 offices in 32 countries and a turnover of almost us $200 million in 1994. It is fast becoming an increasingly important cog in the propaganda machines of the new …
A TEAM of American scientist have decoded the genetic sequence of the bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. The sequence of El Tor, a destructive type of cholera bacterium, was deciphered by John Hedelberg of the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland, Rita Colwell of University of Maryland in Baltimore and John …
cleaner alternative: A biofertiliser plant has been established in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, and it will start production by the end of September, 2000. The plant has been established by the National Federation for Agricultural Cooperative Marketing. The biofertiliser is being introduced in the market to stop the degradation of soil and …
What is the community health system? The concept of the community health system evolved by the Foundation of Research in Community Health ( frch ), is based on decentralisation of the existing health care system. The concept was developed after extensive research and involves training of the village women to …
the high cost of drugs to fight hiv/aids in developing countries was a recurring theme at the 13th International aids conference held in Durban, South Africa, in the second week of July. The official opening ceremony was preceded by a protest march of several thousand people organised by the Treatment …
of late , there has been a great deal of activity connected with aids awareness and control. Yet, it seems that all sponsored, funded and media-hyped activities do not translate into specific guidelines or mandatory protocols when a seropositive hiv case is identified. Identification of such a case takes place …
india's overall health care system performance has helped the country to the 112th position among World Health Organisation members, according to the World Health Report 2000 released in the latter part of June. India stands 133rd on the basis of per capita expenditure in the field of health. With these …
Health does not seem to be the priority area for the government. The World Health Report 2000 claimed that while only 1 per cent of India's gross domestic produce ( gdp ) is being used in the field of health care, three times this amount is being used for defence. …
The South African government has severely criticised an offer of Pfizer Incorporation, a pharmaceutical company, to supply a powerful and expensive drug called Diflucan free of cost. Diflucan is used to treat a deadly AIDS-related infection. According to government officials, the offer is too restrictive to be of much benefit …
We have entered an era of great hope and promise, of advancing human health and well-being and of social and economic progress. The shape of things to come can be visualised with a rough timetable. Will the new order of things reduce and eventually eliminate the inequities and disparities that …
There is no comprehensive study to find out the health implications of coal dust. K K Tiwari, deputy director, Central Fuel Research Institute (CFRI), Dhanbad, says nobody is interested in studying the toll that coal dust might be taking on public health. "If you report the facts the government will …
in may 1977, the 30th World Health Assembly adopted a resolution in which it decided that by the year 2000, all citizens of the world would attain a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life. This came to be known as "health …
A new cheap, oral aids vaccine in presently being developed at the University of Maryland's Institute of Human Virology in the us. According to Dr Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of the virus and head of the institute, the drug is expected to undergo human tests in Uganda in as little as …
In japan , "the land of paradoxes', as Masafumi Nagao, a professor at the Centre for the study of International Cooperation in Education at Hiroshima University, puts it, the third sector that constitutes the non-profit and the non-governmental sector "is not without history'. The first and the second sectors comprise …
malaria poses a serious public health problem in India with three million cases being reported every year. With the malaria-spreading mosquitoes becoming resistant to pesticides and the malaria parasite developing immunity to drugs, the problem is all the more threatening. One way to deal with it is the insecticide treated …
