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AnalysisIndia still on top of the world polio map Despite launching the largest ever mass immunisation campaign against polio in February 2003, targeting 165 million children, the battle against polio has not been won. To understand the causes of the repeated occurrence, we need to understand the profile of the wild polio virus More... Will the law against organ sale remain a moral victory?When India passed the Transplantation of Human Organs Act banning trade in organs, those who had agitated for the law may have thought they had won the battle. Instead the kidney trade has only flourished. The public is being told that the only way to put a stop to the kidney trade by people such as Amit Kumar, who has been running a global trade in organs since 1994, is to regulate the market for human organs More... Missing the wood for the treesFollowing the NFHS survey, the HIV numbers game has begun again. The point is that regardless of the actual number of people infected in India, there can be no complacency or drop in political and societal commitment towards HIV intervention and the rights of positive people More... The importance of social medicineBinayak Sen, who was arrested in Chhattisgarh in May, is one of very few medical practitioners in India who see their role as not just saving individual lives but examining and highlighting the social context of disease. Is it just to arrest a doctor who is acting according to his conscience? More... The bogey of sex educationAs the tussle between proponents of sex education in schools and conservatives who wish to ban it continues, Neha Madhiwalla writes that the evidence of the benefits of sex education is not very convincing More... Killing ourselves slowlyWith growing calls for the reintroduction of DDT to fight the resurgence of malaria worldwide, we must not forget the reasons why many countries have banned this toxic substance and other dangerous chemicals that cause cancers and other persistent diseases that impair health and possibly prove fatal More... 4 lakh AIDS deaths in India: 'It is pure mathematics'Denis Broun, country representative of UNAIDS, defends a recently-published report by his organisation that states that over 4 lakh AIDS-related deaths occurred in India in 2005 -- the highest in the world More... 'We cannot blindly accept international diktats without understanding ground realities'Public health specialist Dr Ritu Priya critiques government policy on bird flu, as well as HIV/AIDS, polio and tuberculosis More... India on alert: Implications of the avian influenza outbreakThe outbreak of bird flu in Nandurbar district, Maharashtra, is particularly worrisome for a country like India, which has a weak public health system and an annual per capita public health expenditure of just Rs 200 More... Letting doctors get away with negligenceThe medical profession has consistently resisted the jurisdiction of the courts. A recent Supreme Court judgment puts medical professionals in India above the criminal law of the land. But surely it is hazardous to start carving out exceptions to the uniform applicability of criminal law, asks Supreme Court advocate Rakesh Shukla More... Profiteering in the pharmaceutical sectorThe Crocin you buy from your local drugstore at 80-90 paise per tablet costs just 15 paise to make. Dr Anant Phadke delves into the various forms of profiteering in the pharmaceutical sector and suggests ways to oppose it More... How to measure a country's HIV burdenThe figure for HIV prevalence in India for 2004 looks encouraging -- an increase of only 28,000. But how has this figure been arrived at? And how accurate is it? More... HIV/AIDS: The response to the epidemicThere are 5 million HIV-positive people in India today. But there is a slight drop in the rate of growth of HIV infection, and the overall prevalence remains below 1%. An overview of HIV/AIDS in India More... Fighting the stigma of being HIV-positiveWomen in Karnataka talk about the stigma and discrimination they face because of their HIV-positive status More... The female face of AIDSWorld leaders and policymakers are concerned that an increasing number of women are getting infected with the HIV virus. Latest trends show that nearly half of all people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide are women More... |
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