India and Health
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- Figures and facts on HIV and AIDS in the south-east Asia region
- World Health Organization, 2010
- This annual progress report, published by the World Health Organisation (WHO), presents key achievements in prevention and control of HIV in the South-East Asia Region and highlights areas where further work is needed. Key ...
- Sexual health and HIV: New reports highlight how research can make an impact
- Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
- As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy. This publication is a supplement of the ...
- Climate change and health in India
- Kathleen F. Bush; George Luber / Environmental Health Perspectives, 2011
- Building on the information presented at the 2009 Joint Indo–U.S. Workshop on Climate Change and Health in Goa, India, this paper reviews relevant literature and data, to address gaps in knowledge, and identify priorities and st...
- Good practice guide to improve maternal and newborn health
- Women and Children First (UK), 2011
- This good practice guide, based on the experience of a project in India and Bangladesh called Saving Mothers and Children, describes an approach that has the potential to reduce maternal and newborn deaths, and to address other health...
- Spatial distribution of locations, risk behaviour and key characteristics of IDUs in Northeastern India
- G.K. Medhi; J. Mahanta; R. Adhikary / BMC Public Health, 2011
- Injecting drugs is the major driving force of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in Northeastern India. This article describes an assessment of the spatial distribution of locations where injecting drug users (IDU...
- Incorporating flexibilities of TRIPS to ensure better access to HIV treatment
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
- This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organiza...
- Good practice country-level advocacy, communication and social mobilisation contributing to tuberculosis control
- World Health Organization, 2010
- This document - born out of the need for practical examples of the fifth component of the Stop TB Strategy: “Empower people with TB, and communities through partnership” - contains good practice examples of country-level A...
- Studies on health and well-being among people aged 50 years and over in eight countries in Africa and Asia
- Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010
- Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health...
- The implications of absenteeism amongst teachers and medical personnel in the developing world
- F. H. Rogers (ed) / Development Education Programme, World Bank, 2005
- Absenteeism of teachers and medical personnel is widely cited as a barrier to improvement of education and health outcomes in developing countries, especially in South Asia. But how severe is the problem of absent teachers–and i...
- Mechanisms for effective dementia care treatments
- M.J. Prince; D. Acosta; E. Castro-Costa; J. Jackson; K.S. Shaji / Public Library of Science Medicine, 2009
- Two-thirds of people with dementia live in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), where there are few services available and levels of awareness is low. This paper focuses on the effective management of dementia in LMICs, rev...
- World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi)
- The WBTi is a flagship programme of IBFAN Asia that initiates a participatory assessment of the strengths and weaknesses in the 10 areas of policies and programmes meant for implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.
- Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI)
- Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) is an international foundation with the vision to improve child health and nutrition of all children in low and middle income countries through research that informs health policy and practice.
- Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC)
- Indian urban health network
- Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India (AMCHSS)
- Indian centre for research and training on public health
- Social and Development Research and Action Group (SADRAG)
- Action research and development organisation focusing on gender and socio-economic issues in India
- Indian Journal of Medical Research
- Indian Medical Journal
- Indian Journal of Community Medicine
- Freely available online journal of Indian Community Medicine
- Journal of the Indian Medical Association
- The Journal of the Indian Medical association (JIMA) is now available online.
- Centre for Operations Research and Training, India (CORT)
- Reproductive health research with immediate policy relevance
- Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai
- The Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC), formerly known as the Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Centre, is a permanent research institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Originally established to to determine the feasilibility, efficacy and safety of domiciliary chemotherapy for sputum positi...
