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World Bank President Jim Kim calls user fees ‘unjust and unnecessary’ #healthcare

World Bank President Jim Kim today at World Health Assembly called these fees ‘unjust and unnecessary’   ‘The issue of point-of-service fees is critical.  Anyone who has provided health care to poor people knows that even tiny out-of-pocket charges can… Continue Reading →

World Health Statistics 2013 show narrowing healthgap

  World Health Organization – May 2013 Available online at: http://bit.ly/12uJNUs “….15 May 2013 – The world has made dramatic progress in improving health in the poorest countries and narrowing the gaps between countries with the best and worst health status… Continue Reading →

#India – Mentally ill held captive in asylum without licence #WTFnews

Christin Mathew Philip & Pratiksha Ramkumar, TNN Apr 29, 2013, CHENNAI: Hidden behind 15ft-high compound walls is an 80-bed privately run home for the mentally ill in Urapakkam, 50km from the city. The home, Oxford Charitable Trust, has around 100 patients,… Continue Reading →

#India – Womb and Wolves #Vaw #Womenrights #medicalethics

By Swagata Yadavar, THE WEEK Story Dated: Monday, April 15, 2013 15:8 hrs IST Guddi devi, 27: She had sought treatment for a simple stomach ache. The doctor prescribed hysterectomy. Today, with all her vitality sapped, she feels it was… Continue Reading →

Kurukshetra- Missing Prachi Kumari since 16days Kidnapped and Killed ? #Vaw

[email protected] The Station House Officer Ideal Police Station Kurukshetra University Geeta Kendra KURUKSHETRA   Subject: OUR SUSPICIONS ABOUT MISSING Prachi Kumari SINCE April 1, 2013   Sir,   Today is the 16th day of Prachi’s Missing from the University College of… Continue Reading →

Press Release- Farmer suicides in Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh – HRF Press Release on farmers suicides in Mahabubnagar district April 13, 2013 The Human Rights Forum (HRF) demands that the government take immediate steps to ensure that the families of farmers who have committed suicide are duly… Continue Reading →

Private health providers are NOT more efficient, accountable or medically effective #healthcare

POSTED BY ANNA MARRIOTT ON MAR 28TH, 2013 globalhealthcheck.com     In 2009 Oxfam published “Blind Optimism: Challenging the Myths about Private Health Care in Poor Countries,” to help redress what we saw as an international health discourse increasingly dominated by unchallenged private sector… Continue Reading →

#India- Sex Education is Effective for Unschooled Teens

By Swapna Majumdar WeNews correspondent Tuesday, April 2, 2013 And that can be life-saving in a place such as Gujarat, India, where 40 percent of brides are under 20 and anemia is a major threat. A three-year awareness campaign shows… Continue Reading →

Achieving parity between mental and physical health

Whole-person care: from rhetoric to reality     Royal College of Psychiatrists –UK – March 2013   Available online PDF [95p.] at: http://bit.ly/YFvjwS        “…..In our society mental health does not receive the same attention as physical health. People with mental health problems frequently… Continue Reading →

Gujarat tops in India with 149 swine flu deaths in 2013

  Smitha R l Ahmedabad, March 26,2013, DNA There is a reason why swine flu statistics are being treated as state secret. Gujarat has recorded the highest number of swine flu deaths in the country in 2013 and has the… Continue Reading →

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