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World Innovation Summit for Health 2013: Obesity is a global public health pandemic

In an obesity report published at the summit today, experts, examined obesity related health problems in eight countries, as well as the economic and social burdens it crea...

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Pages from the Diary of a Community Health Worker

It was just another day in the late summer of 1992. Fresh from the success of a community intervention that sought to limit the effects of an outbreak of a gastrointestinal...

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Reaching out beyond the screen

Television has ceased to be the idiot box, it is now more than just a medium of entertainment; we cannot override it as a medium of social influence.  Anita, a 38 year...

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Any cheers for Doha pact?

The Doha Declaration on protecting public health is a decade old, but developing countries have not been able to make use of TRIPs flexibilities. Read More

HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE

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This documentary follows two bloggers on their journalistic road trips across China. They denounce social abuses using mobile phones, c...

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SALMA

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Poignant portrait of well-known Indian Tamil poet Salma. She spent twenty-five years of her life behind closed doors, at first in her e...

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FORBIDDEN VOICES

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Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But influential cyber feminists from Cuba, China and Iran keep blogging about the...

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ONE DAY AFTER PEACE

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An Israeli mother’s emotional search for reconciliation with the Palestinian sniper who killed her son in an ambush on Israeli po...

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CAMP 14: TOTAL CONTROL ZONE

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Born inside a North Korean prison camp as the child of political prisoners, Shin Dong-hyuk was raised in a world where all he knew was pun...

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SARHAD – BOUNDARIES AND BARBWIRES

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Whether it is between nations, states or around one’s personal homes, boundaries are always thorny issues. What happens when brut...

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