Stories about Health from January, 2007
Philippines: Prostitution in Philippines And Wikipedia
Philippines4Men is asking readers to help expand the wikipedia entry on Prostitution in Phillipines. “My intention for the entry was to provide people certain facts about the illegalities of prostitution...
Russia: Old New Year With Submarine Captain; Dentistry
White Sun of the Desert writes of an evening spent with a former captain of a nuclear submarine – and about dentistry in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
Russia: Alcoholism
The Turkish Invasion writes about alcoholism in Russia – and posts Soviet posters on the topic.
Ukraine: Dolphin-Assisted Therapy
Ukraine List writes about Dolphin-Assisted Therapy in Crimea.
Kyrgyzstan: Abortion as Birth-Control
Yulia translates a Russian-language post reporting on the use of abortion as birth-control in Kyrgyzstan.
Caught On Camera: Human Rights Videos on GV
You'd be forgiven for thinking it's been Saddam, Saddam, Saddam, in recent weeks, but GV has covered other human rights videos that deserve a bit of limelight – so, in...
Botswana: positive impact of a village blog
A medical student from Nata village in Botswana writes about the impact of the Nata village blog on him, “Before the establishment of this website I must confess that I...
Philippines: Getting a Loved One to Stop Smoking
Touched by an Angel has a post on how she helped her daughter to stop smoking. “Our children need to be taught how to help themselves. They need our love...
Indonesia: Bird Flu Update
Indonesiamatters looks at the latest updates on the spread of bird flu in Indonesia. There are fears that Bird Flu may flare up again in Asia with cases being reported...
Jamaica: 30 years on, critique still holds water
The latest installment in Geoffrey Philp's “In My Own Words” series, which focuses on Caribbean writers, is a critique of the Caribbean's failure to give recognition to the arts written...
China: flu alert
Ai Wei Wei puts up a flu alert on his blog: in Jan, among our dozen people working team, more than half of them got flu. Some of them are...
Kazakhstan: HIV Crisis
KZBlog notes that doctors and officials who made errors leading to the infection of 84 children and 12 women with HIV in the southern Kazakhstani city of Shymkent have been...
China: medical lawsuit
Joel Martinsen in DANWEI presents a story that combines the one-child policy debate with the current controversy over the value of traditional Chinese medicine in modern society.
Nigeria: double standard in international aid
Black Looks writes about The Gates Foundation's double standard in Nigeria, “One group of children who are benefiting from the immunization (measles and polio) programme are those living in the...
China: food poison photos
Mousen in bullog blogs a series of photos on poisonous food in China, which include: First set: salt, white fungus, cruller, assorted vegetable, pig's fat; Second set: ancient eggs, eggs,...
Poland: More on “Africans+AIDS+Poland=racism”
The beatroot posts a follow-up on the African refugee's HIV case.
Poland: “Africans+AIDS+Poland=racism”
The beatroot writes about hysteria in the Polish tabloids: “Simon is pleading not guilty, of course. It's like one of those off-the-peg stories Polish tabloid journos dream of: ‘Black African...
South Asia: 2006 in review
Let us take a look at how the South Asian bloggers reflected on the year 2006: Bangladesh: Drishtipat reports that a total of 3,239 people were killed in Bangladesh, with...
South Korea: women's health
Asiapages blogs about her experience of health check in South Korea which presumes unmarried women as sexually not active and therefore ineligible for body check up.
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