Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide pandemic and the leading cause of death among HIV-infected people, says World Health Organization (WHO). Currently India’s DOTS (directly observed treatment-short course) programme is the largest and fastest expanding initiative in the world, in terms of patients initiated on treatment; and the second largest, in terms of population coverage.
RED pill or Blue ! for NEO COLD WAR
On meeting Vladimir Putin, Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, said: “Well, I guess I´ll shake your hand but I have only one thing to say to you: you need to get out of Ukraine.” David Cameron and Barack Obama personally delivered similar messages, in slightly less hostile terms.
BHUTAN: State of elderly
Most of the elderly population spend their days chanting prayers, circumambulating the temples and prostrating, as they are more meticulous in their religious practices. The majority of the people in Bhutan follow Buddhism and hence, it plays a vital role in the lives of most people, especially those who belong to older generations.
IMAGINING AIDS on the screen
There are diseases and then, there is AIDS. It is difficult to think of any other disease which takes as much a psychological and social toll on its victim as a physical one.
East European Pickers on the road
It was supposed to be the end of summer but it turned out to be the hottest autumn to be remembered. The last days of August I join my friends in Geneva to go to France, a bunch of other Eastern-Europeans, Polish, Checks, Hungarians, all of them seasonal farm-workers and restless vagabonds. Some of them had just managed to save-up their picking wages to buy mature and experienced second-hand camping vans: The Hotel Transporter and the Transit Paradise. With more folks on board they run the merrier. But they don’t run fast. No highways, no haste, only small distances on little roads and many halts. The Swiss turn back and stare: they never see such rickety things driving through their towns.
Banks who sold their Ferrari
According to P Sainath, the revenue foregone in 2013-14 budget can fund three decades of Rural Job Scheme, PDS for four and half years which is 5.32 lakh crore. And when he calculates since 2005-06 it is 36.5 lakh crore which is 36.5 trillion., which can fund MGNREGA for 105 years, PDS for 31 years.