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HEALTH: NGOs Take Active Part in Tobacco Control Treaty Negotiations
The international anti- smoking movement is gearing up to assert its voice more forcefully as negotiations begin to draft the world's first public health treaty that seeks to control the global use of tobacco.HEALTH: UN Highlights Link Between AIDS and Poverty
When a leading United Nations agency named the winners of its 'Race Against Poverty' awards this month, it amplified the link between poverty and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).HEALTH: Stronger Anti-TB Drugs Expected in a Decade
More potent drugs and an easier-to- complete treatment for tuberculosis, a major killer in poor countries, are expected to be out by 2010.HEALTH-ASIA: Activists Want Treaty to Snuff Out Tobacco Promotion
The regular sale of shirts bearing the brand name of a popular American cigarette is anathema for anti- smoking activists in Asia. So, too, the appearance of this cigarette brand in the form of stickers on jeeps./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/BOOKS-SOUTH ASIA: Ordinary Folk Battle Gender Barriers
Consider what happened to "Kusuma" (not her real name), a 21-year-old woman living in rural Sri Lanka. She was assaulted and gang-raped by five men one October morning as she was on her way to work.HEALTH-ASIA: Slowly, Men Being Roped into Anti-AIDS Efforts
When the United Nations' department in charge of AIDS launched its global campaign in March this year to combat the killer disease, it had men clearly in mind. Its chosen theme was: "Men Make a Difference."/REPEAT/HEALTH-ASIA: Slowly, Men Being Roped into Anti-AIDS Efforts
When the United Nations' department in charge of AIDS launched its global campaign in March this year to combat the killer disease, it had men clearly in mind. Its chosen theme was: "Men Make a Difference."HEALTH: Low Funds Help Preventable Diseases Kill Thousands in War- Torn States
Afghans continue to die from preventable diseases because the international community has failed to respond adequately enough to a World Health Organisation (WHO) appeal to fund healthcare programmes for their war-torn country./MILLENIUM SUMMIT/ HEALTH: Cyber Aid to Help Third World Doctors
India will serve as the launching pad for the first phase of an on-line health network that seeks to deliver instant medical information and assistance at no cost to 130 developing nations.CULTURE-ASIA: Big Tobacco Smokescreen Spawns New Lifestyle Among Women
In Sri Lanka, discotheques have become the latest hunting ground for a tobacco multinational in search of promising clients.HEALTH: Tobacco Treaty Becomes Priority for Anti-Smoking Movement
The international anti-smoking movement will be Geneva-bound in October in its quest to snuff out the worldwide reach of the tobacco industry.HEALTH: Higher Taxes Could Loosen Tobacco’s Hold on Poor Countries
p How do you stop the developing world from succumbing to the lure of smoking? Tax smokers there into quitting. That, in essence, is the World Health Organisation's (WHO) and the World Bank's prescription for the malady stalking developing countries.RIGHTS: Activists See Early Establishment of International Criminal Court
There is a growing sense of optimism among human rights advocates and legal experts that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be established in a few years.HEALTH/RIGHTS: What is Best for AIDS Orphans?
Those concerned about the need to help children orphaned by AIDS in the developing world have another ally in their ranksthe United States Senate.HEALTH: Latin American Women to Benefit from Violence Prevention Plan
Women in Latin America will stand to benefit from a novel scheme underway in this region aimed at reducing the spate of domestic violence, says a regional health expert.HEALTH: WHO Urges World to Prepare for AIDS Vaccine
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has added its voice to the emerging chorus that wants a radical plan implemented in readiness for the eventual arrival of an AIDS vaccine.HEALTH: Activists to Push for Human Rights of HIV/AIDS Patients
AIDS activists get another opportunity to champion the cause of human rights for those living with the killer d isease at this week's 13th International AIDS Conference, in Durban, South Af rica.RIGHTS: Advocates Welcome Human Rights Focus in This Year’s Developme nt Report
A leading human rights organisa tion welcomes the high profile given to human rights in this year's "Hum an Development Report 2000," published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).//SOCIAL SUMMIT 2000//DEVELOPMENT: Governments to Examine the How of Universal Basic Education
This week's international conference in Geneva -- the Social Summit Plus Fiveoffers governments an opportunity to demonstrate how they are going to provide quality basic education for all the world's children, say education analysts.//SOCIAL SUMMIT 2000//DEVELOPMENT: The World’s Poor Still Lack Basic Health Care
For a large portion of the wor ld's poorestimated at over 1 billion peopleaccess to basic health care se rvices still remains a distant dream.HEALTH: Tests Underway for Effective Remedy to Combat River Blindness
Close to 36 countries in the developing world stand to benefit from tests that have begun in Ghana with an available antibiotic billed as a remedy to cure river blindness.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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