Monthly Archives: November 2009

Going Abroad on Health Research? Then get some cultural sense.

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on November 12, 2009. Filed under Human Rights, Public Health. No comments.
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Posted By Damjan DeNoble Back in 2006 I made a fateful journey to Gaborone, Botswana. At that time Botswana was thought to have the highest reported HIV infection rate in the world – 37%.  I wanted to see how a program called ACHAP was being implemented in the rural and the urban areas of the [...]

Links: Chinese Legal System Invents “Temporary Rape”

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on November 11, 2009. Filed under China, News Items, Public Health. 1 Comment.
Links to the best healthcare stories from early November, as featured in Episode 1 of our new Weekly Wrap Up Segment, can be found below…and the video can be found here. Syphilis Cases in China – http://www.askmen.com/dating/dating-n… , Temporary Rape in Zhejian – http://www.chinahush.com/2009/11/06/t… , Mixed-race African/Chinese baby – http://www.chinahush.com/2009/11/10/s… , Olympic Condoms – http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091105/… [...]

Introducing Adam Daniel Mezei

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under China, Company Profile. No comments.
We have added a new blog to our blog roll today.  Adam Daniel Mezei, the eponymous editor of the Adam Daniel Mezei blog and website, is a world class maven.  I remember being suprised when Adam first started reading our blog at how much information he was able to shove our way while still keeping [...]

Waiting for a doctor in a big Chinese city

Written by James. Posted on November 2, 2009. Filed under China. No comments.
ChinaSMACK always has interesting topics. They translate popular stories from China’s internet. Yesterday, they put up another interesting translation and a reminder of the vastness of the issues currently being addressed by healthcare reform in China. In “Waiting All Night Outside A Hospital Hoping To See A Doctor“, chinaSMACK highlights a young reporter’s story from [...]

We predicted that H1N1 cases would seemingly “explode” in China, and we were right.

Written by Damjan Denoble. Posted on November 2, 2009. Filed under China, Public Health. 3 Comments.
Yesterday the China Daily published a story in which it was revealed that an estimated 80% of flu cases on the mainland are H1N1. BEIJING: The A(H1N1) influenza was spreading rapidly across the country but it remained under control, an official with the Ministry of Health said here Sunday. “Currently close to 80 percent of [...]