TC-I Tidbits

You daily dose of headlines:

Health, Women and Mortality:The lack of inclusion of midwives within the National Rural Health Mission is highlighted as one of the main reasons for the high maternal mortality rate in India.
Education: Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (WNTA) continued to push the government to pass the Right to Education Bill.
Public Awareness: Swagat Thorat, [...]

TC-I Tidbits

Your daily dose of headlines:

Health: Over 53% children in India under five years - that is, 67 million - live without basic healthcare facilities. This means that India alone accounts for about one-third of all children in the world aged below five who don’t have basic healthcare. [Source: Times of India]
Education: There is a shortage [...]

Reliance Rural Mobile Application Contest 2007 - 08 Deadline April 30th

From now own, competitions like these will be included in a once a week post on Thursdays that compile any opportunities relevant to our readers in an easy to find post. However, given that the Reliance Rural Mobile Application Contest’s deadline will have passed before we had the opportunity to post on it, we wanted [...]

TC-I Tidbits

Health:

At a pharmaceutical advisory forum, the Minister for Chemical and Fertilisers announced that India will reduce the cost of medicine by almost 5 percent and develop injections for live threatening infections.
Worried about the growing trend of obesity amongst children in the country the Ministry of Women and child Development in India is planning to soon [...]

TC-I Tidbits

Health: According to a report, India is not on track toward the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child and maternal mortality. The number of children who die before their fifth birthday stands at 76 per 1,000 live births, while the goal is 38.
Government Schemes: The Gujarat state government’s Jyoti Gram Yojana, a program to [...]

Job Opening: Community Resource Consultant, ACS

The American Cancer Society is looking for a US student to act as a Consultant and spend 10 weeks in Ahmedabad, India conducting an assessment of resources available to assist cancer patients with varied needs during their cancer journey, map available resource against the cancer patient needs and highlight gaps. The job is paid and [...]

A Look Back on the Week

To help our readers better digest the prolific number of posts that appear throughout a given week, the ThinkChange India team will be providing weekly recaps on what posts garnered the most interest and also we will highlight some older posts that we feel deserve to be featured again.
From Sunday to Sunday — The Top [...]

Evening Edition

Microfinance:

The Annual Policy Conference on Microfinance was held last week “to streamline India’s mircrofinance infrastructure, facilitating sustainability to support the Indian microfinance sector’s current rate of growth and provide for future growth rates.”

Accion International announced that it reached 3 million clients through 25 countries and 35 partner organizations.
Lok Capital LLC, an India focused microfinance [...]

India’s Affinity with Africa - A Question of Self Interest?

According to the International Energy Agency, India’s energy needs - fueled by 8% annual economic growth - are projected to double by the year 2030.  Moreover, India is expected to become the biggest net importer of oil by the year 2025, after the United States and China.   
In an attempt to secure energy resources for its buxom economy, India is courting [...]

Evening Edition

Just a few headlines for this evening:

Health: Another Planning Commission report reveals that India faces a shortage of doctors and nurses, but that the private sector can help remedy this issue, and accordingly, plan to set up hundreds of new medical education institutions as a public private partnership.
Energy: IT companies often consume a large amount [...]

Proposals for Grand Challenges Explorations on Global Health

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is accepting grant proposals for its Grand Challenges Explorations online until May 30, 2008. The $100 million initiative involves awarding initial grants of $100,000 each, but potentially up to $1 million.
One of the primary objectives of Grand Challenges Explorations is to involve scientists around the world [...]

AIDS Awareness Through Film

Media is a powerful tool for raising awareness about important social issues. AIDS JaaGO is a series of short films that highlights “the human dimension of the disease” in India. The films cover the topics like migration and prejudices as they relate to AIDS. By employing high-profile stars with well-known directors like Mira Nair, the [...]

Competition: Essay on climate change and health

Update: Please go here to submit your essays.
From Let Me Know:
The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet are holding their third joint essay competition for the under-30s on the theme- “Climate change and health: research challenges for the health of vulnerable populations”.
Details after the jump.

India Sitting on a Tobacco Epidemic

A new study conducted by the Centre for Global Health Research at the University of Toronto found that India is poised to lose around 10 lakh people in the next two years because of smoking in India alone.
Several major policy implications may be in order, including a ban of smoking in public places, an increase [...]

Select Headlines from OneWorld South Asia

Here are links to articles addressing a variety of issues. All are from OneWorld South Asia:

Half the world’s population will live in cities by the end of 2008
Government schemes not reaching the disabled
Avian influenza: Good job India, says FAO
9% for health and education still a distant dream