Health Care

Polio alive and kicking

The polio virus is possibly the most innocuous virus that affects humans. The improvement of sanitation standards across the world has meant fewer people are afflicted by polio as infants, upsetting the historical balance between virus and host. But, sinc

Publication Date:

14/03/2003

Author(s): Pranay Lal

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Care, Vaccination, Polio, Assam, Orissa (Odisha)

Environment

Milking the African market

manufacturers of breast milk substitutes are grossly violating an international code while selling their products in West Africa. So says a study published in the British Medical Journal. The study

Publication Date:

27/02/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030228

pp:

0

Tags:

Health Care, Breast Feeding, Africa

India

AIDS messages: tell all, or nothing?

What do Sushma Swaraj and George W Bush have in common? A mutual contempt of condoms, for one. The us president is known to prefer spreading the word about abstinence over safe sex. Sushma Swaraj too favours this mode

Publication Date:

27/02/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Care, Health Education, AIDS, United States Of America (US)

India

Study flouts basics in privatizing healthcare

CII study recommends greater private role in India's healthcare sector, but the document centres around the lucrative tertiary care market only

Publication Date:

14/02/2003

Author(s): Vibha Varshney

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Care, Primary Health Care, Health Policy, Diagnostic Methods, Drug Industry, Finance, Private Sector, India

Health

"An epidemic of non communication"

David Miller is an expert in psychosocial management of hiv/aids. He has worked in developing countries since 1986 and is currently the Country Programme Adviser of

Publication Date:

14/02/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030215

pp:

0

Tags:

Health, Health Care, Health Education, Epidemics, AIDS, Poverty, Information, UN, India

India