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#GazaUnderAttack Press Release- Lack of water, sanitation and PHC cause explosion of infectious disease in Gaza, threaten public health

Press Release: Ministry of Health Gaza – Lack of water, sanitation and PHC cause explosion of infectious disease in Gaza, threaten public health   Press Release   Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine    August 02, 2014                                                                          FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Lack… Continue Reading →

David Sanders – ‘There is a crisis of health inequity’

Interview with David Sanders, one of the founders of the global public health movement. By T.K. RAJALAKSHMI DAVID SANDERS, Professor Emeritus and founding Director of the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South… Continue Reading →

#India- The Doctor Only Knows Economics #Sundayreading

Lucknow In a daze, a poor couple bring their sick child to a government hospital, holding up a drip bottle. For many like them, private hospitals are out of reach. Care at government hospitals is poor. HEALTH: SICK & SOLDOUT This… Continue Reading →

Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) campaigns against outsourcing of diagnostic centres #Chhattisgarh

TNN | Feb 1, 2013, 03.04 AM IST RAIPUR: Jan Swasthya Abhiyan,  today started a campaign against the proposed move of the government to outsource diagnostic centres at 379 public health facilities in the state. A public meeting was also held to show discontent with the… Continue Reading →

HIV and the Law-Risks, Rights & Health

Thursday, 25 October 2012, IFHHRO Earlier this year, the Global Commission on HIV and the Law published a report presenting the available evidence on human rights and legal issues relating to HIV: HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights & Health…. Continue Reading →

Evidence, Consensus and Policy: curious case of changes proposed in India’s public health policy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 tags: National Rural Health Mission, Planning Commission of India,Planning Commission XIIth Plan, Public Health India by Shivam Vij Guest post by KAVERI GILL, at  kafila.org The world of development is as prone to fashions as any other. In recent times, ‘evidence-based policy’… Continue Reading →

Evidence, Consensus and Policy: curious case of changes proposed in India’s public health policy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 tags: National Rural Health Mission, Planning Commission of India,Planning Commission XIIth Plan, Public Health India by Shivam Vij Guest post by KAVERI GILL, at  kafila.org The world of development is as prone to fashions as any other. In recent times, ‘evidence-based policy’… Continue Reading →

27th Ramanadham Memorial Meeting: Public Health, Inequality and Democratic Rights

The late sixties marked the first major crisis of independent India at all levels of its economy and polity. This crisis gave birth to radical movements. Among these were the tribal and peasant struggles led by Marxist Leninist parties. Brutal… Continue Reading →

Film on how a dalit women’s collective rose up against the failing public health system #Mustwatch

  Directed by-Vijaya Kumar Produced by : Jagruti (http://www.jagruti.org ) Duration :23 mins Language:Kannada with English subtitles. Synopsis of Guna Mukhi  GUNA MUKHI, reconstructs the narrative of how a dalit women’s collective in a small village in Belgaum district.Karnataka, defied class,… Continue Reading →

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