India

 Bank's world

some of India's critical public health schemes have a long track record of corruption. The World Bank has a long record of hiring expensive consultants to tell us so. In this cynical theatre arrives

Publication Date: 
14/02/2008
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Malaria, Health Care, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Finance, World Bank, India, Corruption
Water Pollution

 In Short News

UK to cull badgers to check TB The UK government is planning to cull badgers, the carriers of bovine tuberculosis (TB). Bovine TB is on the rise in the UK, causing 20,000 cattle to be slaughtered

Publication Date: 
30/01/2008
Down to Earth
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Pollution, Water Pollution, River Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Wetlands, Animal Diseases, Tuberculosis, Wetland Conservation, China, United Kingdom (UK), India
Wildlife

 New Zealand okays poison 1080, despite concerns

Despite widespread concerns, the New Zealand government has again okayed aerial spraying of poison 1080 (sodium monofluoroacetate). The country uses about 80 per cent of the world's production of

Publication Date: 
14/09/2007
Down to Earth
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Ecology, Pesticides, Animal Diseases, Tuberculosis, Pesticide Use, Invasive Alien Species, New Zealand
Mining

 Open cast mining threatens Assam

A subsidiary of the central ministry of coal in Assam is steadily refusing to compensate for crop damages wrought by its open-cast mining. This is after the Gauhati High Court told the company to pay

Publication Date: 
30/08/2007
Amarjyoti Borah
Down to Earth
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Water Pollution, Land Pollution, Mining, Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Coal, Tribals, Compensation, Tuberculosis, High Court, Assam, Coal India
India

 WHO's Stop TB partnership programme

the World Health Organization (who) along with its Stop tb partnership programme, announced on June 22 guidelines to curb two forms of tuberculosis

Publication Date: 
30/07/2007
Brad Hinshelwood
Down to Earth
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Health Care, Health Policy, Medical Research, Diagnostic Methods, Drugs, Tuberculosis, WHO, Myanmar, Thailand, India, Gujarat, Rajasthan
Industry

 South Asia

declining fertility

Publication Date: 
14/07/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Animal Diseases, Population, Population Trends, Women, Tuberculosis, Elephant, National Parks, Nepal, Sri Lanka
Health

Tobacco Smoke, Indoor Air Pollution and Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Tobacco smoking, passive smoking, and indoor air pollution from biomass fuels have been implicated as risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) infection, disease, and death. Tobacco smoking and indoor air pollution are persistent or growing exposures in regions where TB poses a major health risk.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
Hsien-Ho Lin, Majid Ezzati, Megan Murray
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Indoor Air Pollution, Tobacco, Health Effects, Smoking, Tuberculosis, Biomass Gasification
Industry

 Ailments afflict endangered Nukak Maku community

The endangered Nukak-Mak

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
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Amazon, Tribals, Tuberculosis, Colombia, Diseases
Industry

 SNIPPETS

• Tonnes of deadly toxic waste, which killed 10 people and made thousands ill in Ivory Coast were recently shipped out of the country in sealed containers, bound for a treatment plant in France.

Publication Date: 
29/11/2006
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Oil Pollution, Industrial Waste Treatment, Global Warming, Fisherfolk, Compensation, Tuberculosis, Philippines, France, United States Of America (US), California, Developing Countries, Toxic Wastes
Agriculture

 South Africa on alert after TB outbreak

The South African government has put its health officials on high alert after an outbreak of xdr tb (extremely drug resistant tuberculosis). According to a who report, the disease is virtually

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
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Tuberculosis, AIDS, WHO, South Africa

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