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Health policies

New tobacco draft too weak to reverse global epidemic, say NGOs (K.Raja)
Scope of public health can't be restricted to a few diseases, Brundtland (C.Raghavan)
Seixas Correa tables new chair's text on tobacco treaty (C.Raghavan)
No new R&D on drugs affecting poor, says new report (K.Raja) 9 Oct 2001
WHO unduly influenced by large pharma companies, complains Nader (C.Raghavan) 29 Jul 2001
New victory in campaign for low-cost medications (G.Capdevila) 19 Jul 2001
FAO/WHO urge greater collaboration over food safety problems (K.Raja) 2 July 2001
UN member states hedge pledges to fight AIDS (T.Deen) 27 June 2001
African groups disappointed by UN AIDS declaration (L.Machipisa) 27 June 2001
Spread of AIDS seen as security threat (J.Lobe) 20 June 2001
In fact and fiction, US officials play games with AIDS in Africa (G.Mutume) 17 June 2001
Environment, health activists urge release of dioxin report (D.Knight) 30 May 2001
Tobacco habit targets women (G.Capdevila) 30 May 2001
Radical solutions needed for antibiotics resistance (S.Burcher & M.W.Ho)
NGOs zero in on non-transparent WHO/corporate links (C.Raghavan) 17 May 2001
HAI voices concern over WHO's 'partnership' with private sector (C.Raghavan) 13 May 2001
Anti-tobacco activists condemn US obstructionism (G.Capdevila) 4 May 2001
Activists demand tougher anti-tobacco treaty (G.Capdevila) 2 May 2001
Differential pricing and politics of health development (H. Bank) 25 April 2001
Brazil wins international backing for drugs policy (G.Capdevila) 23 April 2001
Africa: AIDS needs more than money and drugs, say NGOs (S.Sen) 6 Apr 2001
Poverty, the number one killer worldwide, warns UN (T.Deen) 4 Apr 2001
Europe: The harm caused by 'unethical' livestock breeding (J.Godoy) 28 Mac 2001
Africa: Poverty and the AIDS virus (Rahab S Hawa)
AIDS in Africa: Too little too late (Rahab S Hawa)
Foot-and-mouth reaches Europe (T.Drago) 13 Mac 2001
Mad cows and Englishmen: The globalisation of disease (Rahab S Hawa)
Bush won't fight price break on AIDS treatment (J.Lobe) 22 Feb 2001
Kenya: NGOs seek to import generic drugs from India (J.Achieng) 22 Feb 2001
Annan calls for reallocation of budgets to tackle AIDS (M J Sandrasagra) 20 Feb 2001
Dangerous jabs - The MMR scare (Rahab S Hawa)
Preventing pathogenic food poisoning: Sanitation not irradiation (S.Epstein & W.Hauter)
New People's Charter for Health adopted [Full-text of Charter]
WHO denounces interference by tobacco industry (G.Capdevila) 16 Jan 2001
Global economic system is bad medicine (R.Devraj) 11 Dec 2000
Health care needs shot in the arm, activists say (R.Devraj) 8 Dec 2000
Africa AIDS conference ends with broad consensus (G.Mutume) 7Dec 2000
World Bank's health policies hurting nations, say critics (R.Devraj) 7 Dec 2000
Yes to financing Y2K problem, no to AIDS in Africa 6 Dec 2000
Time to put UN system back on track, activists say (R.Devraj) 5 Dec 2000
Activists want health on top of agenda 4Dec 2000
BSE scare leads to surge in natural fodder in France (J.Godoy) 21 Nov 2000
User fees blamed for cholera outbreak in South Africa (Lean Ka-Min) 26 Oct 2000
Negotiations for tobacco control to resume next April (C.Raghavan)
Globalisation and the Impact on Health - A Third World view (Evelyne Hong)
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WTO free trade rules push up tobacco consumption (S.Singh) (8 Aug 00)
Baby food manufacturer accused of violating WHO code (S.Singh)
US, Britain and Japan block anti-tobacco convention (G.Capdevila) (30 Mar 00)
People's Health Assembly 2000 [HTML] [PDF]
PHA 2000 - Invitation to participate in pre-Assembly activities [HTML] [PDF]
TRIPS and WHO further marginalizing world's poor (S. Singh)
TRIPS will push healthcare beyond poor (Muddassir Rizvi)
Smoking and the poor (Jeremy Seabrook)
Electronic gadgets proliferating without risk assessment(S Singh)
Andean meet sounds alert on transgenics (Kintto Lucas)
FAO wants strict monitoring of meat supplies (Jorge Pina)
A doctor takes on the tobacco MNCs (Frederick Noronha)
What does globalisation mean for health? (Diana Smith)
Sri Lankan "double burden" kills rich and poor alike (Nalaka Gunawardene)
Tobacco convention needs more teeth (Martin Khor)
Extend food and drug regulations to tobacco industry (C.Raghavan)
WHO calls for more equitable world, healthier people
Canada's deadly trade in asbestos (Mark Bourrie)
Governments under pressure to abandon WHO marketing code (IBFAN)
Experts attack shift in global health strategy (Martin Khor)

Structural Adjustment and Health

Economic recession, structural adjustment and health (IPHC/TWN)

New and Emerging Diseases

Commercial Poultry And Its Links to Bird flu (Consumers' Association of Penang)
Japan: Rash of TB cases worries officials (Suvendrini Kakuchi)
Viral epidemic shows up the crisis of new diseases (Martin Khor)
New diseases as viruses break species barriers (Martin Khor)
A new global health crisis:emerging infectious diseases (WHO Report)
New diseases and renewed threats (WHO Report)
The political ecology of the resurgence of malaria in India (Mira Shiva/Vandana Shiva)
BSE:False alarm or Calamity? (Martin Khor)

Traditional Medicine

Traditional medicine often lauded but neglected (K.Seneviratne) 8 Dec 2000
Peru: Traditional knowledge enhances modern medicine (A.Lama) (2 Mar 00)
African medicinal tree threatened with extinction (Judith Achieng)
Trinidad & Tobago:Traditional healers seek official recognition (Wesley Gibbings)

Drugs

British NGOs support Pretoria against pharmaceutical firms (S.Sen)
NGOs disappointed with outcome of essential drugs workshop (C.Raghavan)
Different pricing for drugs to help people or corporations (C.Raghavan)
Pharmaceutical TNCs beat a tactical retreat (C.Raghavan) 20 April 2001
WHO and WTO to hold expert consultations on cheap drugs (C.Raghavan) 16 Mac 2001
AIDS activists march against pharmaceutical companies (G.Mutume) 12 Mac 2001
Pressure mounts for cheaper anti-AIDS drugs (G.Mutume) 9 Feb 2001
Generic drug-makers brace for battle with pharmaceuticals (M.M.Markar) 11 Feb 2001
Africans spurn US loan offer for anti-AIDS drugs (L.Machipisa) (29 Aug 00)
Ex-Im Bank loans for AIDS is corporate welfare (C.Raghavan) (21 Jul 00)
Cheaper AIDS drugs or commercial loans to buy TNC drugs? (G.Mutume) (19 Jul 00)
Compulsory licensing good for US public, not others (S Singh)
US: Overuse of antibiotics threatens humans (Danielle Knight)
US urged to eliminate dioxins (D. Knight)
Zambia: Growing resistence to life-prolonging AIDS drugs (Zarina Geloo)
Cuba: Vaccine may open window in US blockade (Patricia Grogg)
Hostile AIDS activists target Gore over patents (Karine Cunqueiro)
Assembly adopts new revised drug strategy (C.Raghavan)
TRIPS and the WHO's revised drug strategy (S Singh)
Misuse and overuse of antibiotics: Who is to blame? (Ong Beng Gaik/CAP)
The dangers of antibiotics in animal feed (Martin Khor)

War Surgery, Field Manual
by Hans Husum et al

“...a wealth of information on the organization of war medical service and on approaches to setting up forward clinics . . . an indispensable tool for surgeons and medical assistants who find themselves in circumstances of war . . . . .no other manual in existence covers this information with such depth and clarity... ” - David Werner

Save Lives, Save Limbs: Life support for victims of mines, wars, and accidents
by Hans Husum et al

“...everyone whose work involves contact with mine-affected communities should consider this book a vital resource... ” - Rae McGrath, Nobel Prize laureate, 1997

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