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Big Pharma Digs In  new

The nations of the world are currently debating how to design new medical research and development (R&D) mechanisms to serve the twin goals of promoting innovation to meet the particular needs of developing countries and ensuring that important medicines are accessible to people in the developing world, regardless of their income. (by Robert Weissman, Common Dreams, May 2, 2008)

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/02/8664/

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Fast forward: How the European Commission can take the lead in providing high-quality budget support for education and health  new

Developing-country governments desperately need more long-term and predictable aid, given through their budgets, to finance the expansion of health care, education, and other vital social services. The European Commission (EC) is one of the biggest donors providing this kind of essential budget support, and has innovative plans to further improve and increase this aid. European Union (EU) member states must support these ambitious plans (Oxfam GB, May 2008).

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/debt_aid/bp111_ec_aid.html

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Custom, Ignorance Breed Severe Malnutrition

In Nepal's western terai (plains) districts, a silent epidemic is brewing. Children and women are racked by diseases arising from malnutrition and anaemia--not because of a lack of food but because of faulty food habits and traditional customs, say health workers in the region. (Suman Pradhan, IPS, 22 September 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34837

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Wanted - Healthcare Adapted To Indigenous Cultures

The alarming state of health in Bolivia is related to the dominant healthcare model, which ignores the society's traditional cultures, said Health Minister Nila Heredia, who is attending the World Health Assembly in this Swiss city. (Gustavo Capdevila, IPS, 25 May 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33372

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1Up Health

Health resource provides reliable and comprehensive information on diseases, symptoms, tests, surgery, injury, nutrition, medications, and poisons. Includes family and community health.

http://www.1uphealth.com/

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2004 World Drug Report

Annual report produced by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime provides an overview of the international illicit drug trade.

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/world_drug_report.html

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Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD)

formed in 1997 with a mission to promote the commitment of Canadians to population and development issues in order to enhance the quality of life of children and subsequent generations in Canada and around the world. Through dialogue, education, advocacy and coalition building, ACPD supports and advances action on population and development, including full implementation of the Cairo Programme of Action. ACPD mobilizes public support for international population and development issues. It focuses on the inter-relationships between population growth and structure, the environment, over-consumption, poverty, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equity and equality, human rights, migration, and economic issues.

http://www.acpd.ca/

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African perspectives on genetic resources: a handbook on laws, policies, and institutions governing access and benefit sharing

Researchers developing innovative solutions to some of the world''s most pressing problems - disease, hunger, and poverty - rely on access to genetic resources. Regulating the conservation, use, and exchange of these resources - who has access to them under what circumstances, who has the right to benefits accrued through their use, how they are conserved - is a complicated process, and many nations lack adequate laws and policies. This book examines how 12 African nations are meeting this challenge and provides a resource for nations to develop a common policy framework. (K Nnadozie, R Lettington, C Bruch, S King, Environmental Law Institute, 2003)

http://www.elistore.org/reports_detail.asp?ID=10953

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Baby Milk Action

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 1.5 million infants die around the world every year because they are not breastfed. Where water is unsafe a bottle-fed child is up to 25 times more likely to die as a result of diarrhoea than a breastfed child. Baby Milk Action is a non-profit organisation which aims to save lives and to end the avoidable suffering caused by inappropriate infant feeding. This website offers latest news and other information on the issue.

http://www.babymilkaction.org/

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CASE STUDY: The Tygerberg Telemedicine Project in South Africa

The Tygerberg Children's Hospital and Rotary Telemedicine Project in South Africa links specialists from Tygerberg Hospital to doctors at regional community or "district" hospitals to improve healthcare in rural areas. The initiative has assembled its own telemedicine system using off-the-shelf computer equipment and software that is more affordable than commercial telemedicine systems.

http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv82003/sld-8315.html

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Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE)

CINE was created in response to a need expressed by Aboriginal Peoples for participatory research and education to address their concerns about the integrity of their traditional food systems. Deterioration in the environment has adverse impacts on the health and lifestyles of Indigenous Peoples, in particular nutrition as affected by food and food traditions.

http://www.cine.mcgill.ca/

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Checklists to Ensure Human Rights of Victims of Natural Disasters

These checklists are specific to the Pacific region and have been developed by the UNDP Pacific Centre in partnership with the Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) Regional Office for the Pacific with the support of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). (December 2007)

http://regionalcentrepacific.undp.org.fj/Files/Publications/Checklist_Integrating_HumanRights_in_natural_Disaster_Management.pdf

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Child Mortality at Record Low; Further Drop Seen

For the first time since record keeping began in 1960, the number of deaths of young children around the world has fallen below 10 million a year, according to figures from the United Nations Children's Fund that were released (NY Times, Donald G. McNeil Jr. 13 September 2007).

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/world/13child.html

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Chinese hospitals used fake drips

Chinese investigators say nearly 60 hospitals and pharmacies in north-eastern China have been using fake blood protein in patients' drips (BBC News, 11 June 2007).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6742293.stm

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Climate Change and Human Health - Risks and Responses

By A.J. McMichael, D.H. Campbell-Lendrum, C.F. Corvalán, K.L. Ebi, A. Githeko, J.D. Scheraga and A. Woodward, 2003. This book, published by WHO in collaboration with UNEP and WMO, describes the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond, with particular focus on the health sector. Order the book or download the summary online.

http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/cchhbook/en/

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Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions (Pdf)

This report highlights that climate change will affect the health of humans as well as the ecosystems and species on which we depend, and that these health impacts will have economic consequences. The editors believe that an integrated assessment of how climate change is now adversely affecting and will continue to affect health and economies can help mobilize the attention of ordinary citizens around the world, and help generate the development of climate-friendly products, projects and policies. With early action and innovative policies, business can enhance the world's ability to adapt to change and restabilize the climate. (Paul R. Epstein and Evan Mills, Eds., UNDP, 2005)

http://www.undp.org/biodiversity/pdfs/CCF_Report_2005_final.pdf

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Climate change will erode foundations of health

The World Health Organisation Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan has stressed that climate change threatens to reverse progress in fighting diseases of poverty, and to widen the gaps in health outcomes between the richest and the poorest. (World Health Organisation, 7 April 2008)

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr11/en/index.html

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Commission on Social Determinants of Health

World Health Organisation. Much of the profound inequity in peoples' health within and between countries is socially determined. It arises from the circumstances in which people live and work. The thee-year, high-level Commission on Social Determinants of Health will leverage change in policy and institutional practice by turning existing knowledge on social determinants into actionable global, regional and national policy agendas. To achieve this, the Commission will compile and make visible the relevant evidence on key social determinants and the policies and interventions that address them. It will support and promote the implementation of such policies and interventions by Member States, and by national, regional and global health actors, including WHO.

http://www.who.int/social_determinants/en/

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Cuba: Health without Wealth

In the US the federal government forks out an average $4,178 per person annually on healthcare. In Cuba Castro coughs up a paltry $186 per head to finance his citizens in a similar way: that's 4 per cent of the US contribution. Nevertheless, defying all logic, the health indices in both countries are almost equitable. This article looks at what Cuba has done to achieve this, and advises that other developing countries learn from Cuba's experience the importance (and cost-effectiveness) of preventative medicine through an interlinking network of rural health clinics, well-trained community doctors, compulsory immunisation programmes and accurately updated countrywide medical records.

http://www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=472

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Ecosystems and human well-being: Health synthesis

Ecosystem services provide food, water, shelter and clean air. Human induced changes in ecosystem affect human health and wellbeing. Unlike the richer population, poor are more vulnerable to the adverse health and wellbeing effects arrising form such changes. This report focuses on complex relationship between ecosystem and human health and suggests reforms needed in governance, institutions,laws and policies. (Carlos Corvalan, Simon Hales and ANthony McMichael, WHO, 2005)

http://www.who.int/globalchange/ecosystems/ecosystems05/en/print.html

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Email update from Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD)

ACPD's Friday Facts is a monthly electronic newsletter distributed via email. Each issue of Friday Facts includes the latest issues in the area of international development including online resources and extracts from various media sources.

http://www.acpd.ca/acpd.cfm/en/section/FridayFacts

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EngenderHealth

EngenderHealth is an international nonprofit organization that has been working for 60 years to make reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable for women and men worldwide.

http://www.engenderhealth.org/

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Environmental Health Project (EHP)

In its environmental health programs, USAID aims to provide global leadership in the development of new and improved interventions to prevent illness and death associated with environmental factors, and to use innovative approaches to take these interventions to scale within the context of USAID's field activities.

http://www.ehproject.org/

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Estimating the Economic Impact of HIV/AIDs on the Countries of the Former Soviet Union

ESAU WP1, Martin Wall, December 2003. This report assesses the evidence on the extent and prospects of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in the countries of the former Soviet Union and the impact this will have on the economies of those countries. The main focus of the report is the Russian Federation. The economic and demographic context against which the epidemic is developing is first discussed. All of the states of the FSU have suffered unprecedented falls in employment and output and a collapse in many of the state institutions that might determine or implement public health policy. Russia in particular is suffering from falling life expectancy and general declines in health that are untypical for countries with high HIV prevalence. The epidemic is still largely confined to high-risk groups such as Intravenous Drug users (IDUs) in Russia and the Ukraine. Infectivity is high in such groups and concentration of HIV among IDUs is one of the reasons the disease is spreading so rapidly. There is evidence of high recruitment and casual drug use suggesting the lines between IDUs, Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) and the general population are more blurred than in a western country. The epidemics in the other former Soviet republics are less developed than in Russia but they exhibit many of the same risk factors and the trade and migratory links between them and Russia suggest they will suffer epidemics of similar magnitude.

http://ideas.repec.org/p/odi/wpaper/1.html

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ETHIOPIA: Strategy to focus on malnutrition

Ethiopia's new national nutrition strategy will target children younger than two years of age because a significant number suffer chronic malnutrition (IRIN, 11 February 2008)

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76673

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