[This article was published in the October 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The vision of the empowered patient is still lagging behind reality, but now e-health offers the opportunity for patient empowerment.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting efforts by the Government of Indonesia to reduce malnutrition among poor children and pregnant women to put the country on track to achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Lack of health services is one of the main impediments for improving the quality of life in rural India and the same has been reiterated by the e-choupal initiative of ITC.
Microsoft India and International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada under their ‘Rural Innovation Fund’, have selected five organisations who will receive financial assistance to support and escalate their work on rural innovation.
[This article was published in the August 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
In response to strong public concern about wait times, Canada�s First Ministers committed to providing evidence-based wait time benchmarks for cancer, cardiac care, diagnostic imaging, joint replacement and sight restoration (cataract surgery).
The World Bank has declared two India-based firms, Nestor Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Nestor) and Pure Pharma Ltd. (Pure Pharma), ineligible to be awarded Bank-financed contracts.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is assisting the Government of Lao People
Recently the government of Ghana received an approval of funding from the World Bank Board, amounting 40 million USD. This funding will finance two health sector projects (i) Health Insurance Project – US$15 million and (ii) Nutrition and Malaria Control for Child Survival Project
[This article was published in the July 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
This initiative of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka endeavours to take the dividends of the highly specialized field of human genetics to rural communities through an ICT platform, and draws on the infrastructure facilities of the newest Nenasala at the Kurunegala Hospital and that of the Koslanda Nenasala.
[This article was published in the May 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
It is true that e-Health is gaining currency in the developed countries of the west, but the awareness of its enormous potential seems to be very limited in Africa.
Amartya Sen, speaking in one event organized by UNICEF in Kolkata, (India), stressed the need for greater government investment in both education and healthcare by including women and various unions.
ADB is targeting a significant reduction in new infections of HIV/AIDS among the youth of Vietnam, through a project backed by a grant of US$20 million.
ADB is targeting a significant reduction in new infections of HIV/AIDS among the youth of Vietnam, through a project backed by a grant of US$20 million.
