Health

18.04.2008 Co-authored by UNICEF, UNAIDS and WHO, Children and AIDS: Second Stocktaking Report, is a review of progress on how AIDS affects children and young people. Focusing on low and middle income countries, the report reveals that there is a strong need for more evidence-based information for HIV/AIDS prevention efforts.

25.03.2008 The latest WHO report: The Global Tuberculosis Control 2008 documents a slowdown in progress on diagnosing people with TB, citing lack of funds as the major reason. The report also stresses on combating new forms of the disease like multi-drug resistant TB and the lethal combination of TB/HIV.

29.02.2008 Two studies by the Urban Health Resource Centre talk of maternal and newborn care among the poor in central India and state of urban health in the national capital. Apart from highlighting the need for better access to healthcare facilities, the reports underline the cultural factors and prevalence of poverty as obstacles.

19.02.2008 Child mortality cannot be divorced from broader political and socio-economic development, says a report by Save the Children, a UK-based organisation. The report argues that policy choices and efficient resource allocation are crucial to tackle the issue of child survival in developing countries.

13.02.2008 UNICEF’s report: The State of the World’s Children 2008, provides a comprehensive picture of the current state of child survival and primary health care for mothers. The report gives an assessment of factors affecting child health and outlines the approaches to reduce under-five mortality rate.

30.11.2007 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update a joint report by UNAIDS and WHO comes as a reprieve. The new report reveals that the epidemic has slowed down in recent times and that the dreaded HIV virus has actually not infected as many people as it was earlier feared.

19.11.2007 November 19 is World Toilet Day. WaterAid, an international NGO, brings out a report, The State of the World's Toilets, on the occasion. The report ranks the worst countries in the world for sanitation provision, with 40% of the world's population lacking somewhere safe to go to the toilet. India comes second on poor sanitation list.

02.11.2007 The final report of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) 2005-06 offers the first-ever comprehensive picture of the health and well-being of India’s men, women and children. The report was released last month by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at the capital, New Delhi.

03.10.2007 A recent report by WaterAid claims that the economic benefits of investing in sanitation are far greater than its costs. ‘Sanitation and Economic Development: Making the case for the MDG Orphan’ is a timely release to inform public policy debate during the United Nations’ International Year of Sanitation in 2008.

13.09.2006 As in many countries of South East Asia, trafficking of women and children takes many forms in North East Region. The International definition of trafficking recognizes a boarder spectrum of abuses, so in India there is a growing recognition that many previously accepted forms of exploitative labor, child labor, recruitment practices in sex industry, and servile marriages may in fact be forms of human trafficking and
infringements of the human rights of the individuals involved.

05.07.2006 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA), has published reports and tool kits on an four-country action research that establish the role of ICTs in enabling people, to have better access to pro-poor government services.Each of the country teams chose a specific area of research. In Pakistan, the focus was on water and sanitation, in Croatia – waiting lists for surgeries in hospitals, India on access to services in a maternal and child health hospital and in Nigeria on primary education.

08.05.2006 As a result of falling antiretroviral (ARV) prices, new sources of international funding and growing political commitment, providing treatment to HIV-positive people in the developing world is, for the first time, becoming an achievable goal.

27.03.2006 Among the more than one million people malaria kills annually are hundreds of thousands of children. Most are under age five, their immature immune systems failing to control the aggressive disease. The majority of these children are from the developing world. Almost 90 percent are from sub-Saharan Africa.

10.02.2006 After 50 years of trying, India finally managed to reach the elimination target for leprosy in December 2005, in all but nine states. Multi-drug therapy (MDT) tablets provided by the World Health Organisation are said to be responsible for the turnaround.

02.02.2006 This manual is designed to assist national UNFPA officers in planning, designing,implementing and evaluating communication interventions for HIV prevention among adolescents that integrate advocacy,behaviour change communication and education with other policy and service
components.

27.01.2006 The Reaching the Poor Program (RPP) is an effort to begin finding better ways of ensuring that the benefits of health, nutrition, and population (HNP) programs flow to disadvantaged population groups. It has been undertaken by the World Bank, in cooperation with the Gates Foundation and the Dutch and Swedish Governments.

10.01.2006 In this paper, entitled 'Gender, caste, class, and health care acess: Experiences of rural households in Koppal district, Karnataka Asha George, Aditi Iyer and Gita Sen outline the context of pregnant women’s lives and the plural health systems they encounter in Koppal, a district in the state of Karnataka, south India. Preliminary survey findings are combined with qualitative work to illustrate the dynamics involved in seeking and receiving obstetric care.

21.12.2005 This paper, published by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA), examines the ways that non-governmental organisations (NGOs), donors, and the United Nations (UN) worked together to provide nutrition interventions in emergencies during the period from 1983 to 2003.

21.12.2005 This framework, published by the World Health Organization, aims to help policy-makers and others develop strategies for improving newborn health, particularly in countries which have a high burden of mortality and illness among newborn children. The authors report that the Millennium Development Goal on reducing child mortality will only be met if there is a significant improvement in neonatal survival.

14.12.2005 As far as possible medicines for children should be used as described in the product.