The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released a study analyzing evidence in Asia-Pacific on how punitive and discriminatory laws and human rights violations limit access to HIV prevention and care services for men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) and transgender people. The study report “Legal environments, human rights and HIV responses among men who have sex with men and [...]

Affordable quality-assured asthma medicines bring hope to low-income countries (CNS): This World Asthma Day, people suffering from asthma in low- and middle-income countries can find new hope in its theme “You Can Control Your Asthma”, thanks to the Asthma Drug Facility created by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union). The cost [...]

Kalpana Palkhiwala writes: Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future. Earth Day 2010 can be [...]

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia- a true socialist had clearly stated that the people holding political/economic/social power drive the whole system according to their suitability. Circuit houses/separate roads/luxury vehicles/separate schools/separate curriculums are only few examples that approve this statement. Different curriculum/boards not only widen the gaps of social opportunity but also minimize the competition for these [...]

Even one year after the enforcement of the Smoke free law in India, more than 50 per cent of the places are out of compliance across India. An air quality monitoring study was conducted by Voluntary Health Association of India, The Uttar Pradesh Voluntary Health Association, and several other tobacco control organizations around India. The [...]

In my first news of this village, I had highlighted the situation of tuberculosis (TB) in Ganga Jamuni village, situated around 110 KMs from the state capital of Uttar Pradesh. However, in this article I would like to share one more healthcare-threatening aspect that how women of this village are being trapped in TB and [...]

In this year 2010, which has been declared as Year of the Lung, it is indeed a much-awaited welcome news that International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) is to launch an International trial of 9-month MDR-TB treatment regimen. The need for accessible, effective multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment is urgent, as the incidence of [...]

Around 110 kilometers of state capital of Uttar Pradesh, residence of Ganga Jamuni village are fighting against-tuberculosis (TB) since their three generations. This is the third generation of TB cases in many families of this village. ‘My forefathers have also died few years back due to TB. The situation is same in most of the [...]

Mumbai: As the train heads to Mumbai from Marathwada, the air resonates with the ever-so-familiar poem from school, ‘Shikari aata hai, jaal failata hai. Daane ka lobh dikhata hai, lekin hamein jaal mein naïf fasna chahiye. The poem takes on a new meaning in Marathwada though: there are tales galore of the predator and prey [...]

New Delhi: The decision of the Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C), Mr. Jairam Ramesh, to place a moratorium on the clearance accorded by Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), to the environmental release of the Bt brinjal variety developed by M/s Mahyco (an Indian seed company with substantial investment from US multinational, [...]

Nahan, Janury16: Road safety club today organized an awareness rally in the town in which more than 200 students from different educational institutions took part. Superintendent of Police P.D Parsad fagged off the rally near choggan ground. The president of the Road safety club Amarjeet Singh Parmar said that the aim of the rally was [...]

New Delhi: On the eve of World AIDS Day, WHO released new recommendations on treatment, prevention and infant feeding in the context of HIV, based on the latest scientific evidence. WHO now recommends earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for adults and adolescents, the delivery of more patient-friendly antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), and prolonged use of [...]

There is an unprecedented growth of Maddersah’s in a hilly hamlet Bhalessa (Doda). There is rising tide in madrasah education, as is being witnessed today. The Madersah’s increased in number. Interestingly, the number rose to 12 in an inaccessible area of Bhalessa including Thathri. Besides nurturing the Islamic clerics from these Madrasah’s including Hafiz and [...]

Canada:  Sajid Anjum writes- World Climate Change and Environment is the much debated subject of today’s time. So what about the role of more than 1.5 billion of World Muslim Population? How can they contribute to saving the earth? I am trying to focus on world’s one third population who are not paying attention about [...]