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V0LUME 8 ISSUE 4 (April 2009)

 

The Newsletter for Health Organizations in Cambodia

Content

Focus On

  • Impact of Economic Crisis on Health Outcome & Health Financing

Health News

  • Fearful Swine Influenza (Flu) in North and Latin Americas worries Cambodia
  • Worrying Survival Gap Between Rich and Poor after Heart Surgery: Study Reveals
  • CDC Guidance for California and Texas Residents,U.S.A on SF precautionary measures
  • Study Links Pesticides to Birth Defects
  • Poor Kids Exposed to More Secondhand Smoke

International News

  • Profit drives drug misuse in Asia

Government News

  • Minutes of The Technical Working Group for Health Meeting (TWGH), March 12, 2009

4Ms Topic Report

  • MEDiCAM 4Ms Meeting Report
       

The other Issues of MEDiNEWS:

Volume 9 Issue 2
February 2010 (32)
Volume 9 Issue 2
Volume 9 Issue 1
January 2010 (51)
Volume 9 Issue 1
Volume 8 Issue 12
December 2009 (16)
Volume 8 Issue 12
Volume 8 Issue 11
November 2009 (16)
Volume 8 Issue 11
Volume 8 Issue 10
October 2009 (9)
Volume 8 Issue 10
....More

What is MEDiNEWS?

MEDiNEWS is the primary mechanism for information exchange for MEDiCAM within Cambodia. MEDiNEWS is published monthly and contains articles dealing with the current issues in the Cambodian health system and facing the country's health sector. The magazine's target audience includes health professionals, development partners, policy makers and health managers throughout the country; it is not designed for the general population.

The 'focus on' section covers the current hot topics for heath sector development. Also included are donor and agency news, regional events, health issues and government events. We publish the minutes of the Technical Working Group for Health and also include all the latest health documents released in Cambodia. We continue to encourage members and partners to submit articles for the magazine and have included a variety of partner and member pieces in 2007.

Focus On topics in 2007 included: Tobacco Deaths in Cambodia, Traffic Accidents and Road deaths in Cambodia, Counterfeit and substandard medicines are killers, MEDiCAM position paper, HIV prevalence still high among Most At Risk Population, Hospitals overwhelmed with Dengue Hemorrhagic fever patients, TB/HIV collaboration activities in rural Cambodia, Poor Hygiene and sanitation affecting poor communities, NGOs experiences in responding to the Dengue outbreak, The international health compact.

The readership of MEDiNEWs continues to cover a cross section of the Cambodian health sector, in 2007 it was distributed to 124 fully paid members, 69 in the ministry of health, 18 to other ministries (such as MoEYS, MoWA etc), 70 to PNCB project in the regional offices, 91 to PHDs, 6 others to JICA, Japan Embassy, Open forum of Cambodia, radio free Asia and CCC, 30 copies are for staff and the library at MEDiCAM.

 

The issues in 2008

The issues in 2007

The issues in 2006