Health

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Wayne Roberts finds it unsettling that an authoritative and transformative report on cancer released in February 2009 has to hearken back to the horse and buggy days of a century ago by calling for a return to “classic public health.” …

This just in from the Keep NHS Public Campaign:…

Tanzania is home to the highest point in Africa as well as to Olduvai Gorge, where some of the oldest human remains have been found…

Nigeria’s Bauchi State is acting as a “dating agency” by arranging for HIV+ people to meet each other with the aim of getting married and reducing the spread of HIV…

Women desperately want toilets – but not as a health aid…

Timor-Leste’s landscape is still deeply scarred from the conflict that raged in 1999, after the Timorese population voted for independence from Indonesia.…

The privatization of public health systems Radio New Internationalist has just landed in Dublin to join one of the leading lights in Irish community radio - Jack Byrne from NEAR FM - as he reports on a pressing public interest issue: plans to privatize his country's public health system…

If anyone had any doubts as to what's happening to the UK's NationalHealth Service (NHS) please read below extracted from the excellentnewsletter Health Campaigners' News published by the the NHS Support Federation and the national Keep Our NHS Public campaign…

The first in a two-part special...They say that media have short memories…