LIFE AND HEALTH

Mysterious illness haunts Tibetan highlands

By Tim Johnson
McClatchy Newspapers

June Issue: NARME, Tibet - The villagers amble along the dirt alleys in a robotlike waddle, joints deformed and stunted in height. They’re in pain as they move, and unable to lift the tools they need to work the fields.
In this sun-baked hamlet near the Lhasa River more than two miles above sea level, some 40 percent of the villagers have an illness known as “big bone disease.” Read more...

The Bitter Truth about Diabetes
By Sanchita Sharma

Rising Diabetes may cause a surge in male infertility, say UK scientists. The warning follows on tests on diabetic men that showed 60 percent higher DNA damage in their sperm compared with healthy men, reports Guardian. Click here to read more...

AIDS awareness for Tibetan university students in Bangalore
By Tenzin Jangchup Lingshar, Bangalore

Bangalore: April 13: A Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) Tibetan student at St. Joseph college of Arts and Science in Bangalore takes an initiative to make sure his fellow Tibetan college going friends in the city are aware of AIDS. Click here to read more...

A Unique Initiative on Aids Awareness
By Tenzin Khepahk / Tibetoday

Delhi: In The message from His Holiness during the 46th founding anniversary of the Tibetan Children’s Village, Dharamshala last year has inspired a group of nursing students to get into action, resulting to unique initiative on aids awareness. The Tibetan Students’ Volunteers for Aids Awareness- a group consisting of final year students of nursing college of Jamia Hamdard University in Delhi has recently organized an awareness program about the killer disease among the Tibetan community here.   Click here to read more...

HIV-AIDS AND THE TIBETAN COMMUNITY TIME TO ACT
By Dr. Kunchok Dorjee, Delek Hospital

I was walking up the lane one fine Sunday morning when I overheard a group discussing nearby, “I heard there are many cases of HIV in Dharamsala, we got to be careful”. I continue to walk when not long past, the bold headings of numerous pamphlets stuck on a wall caught my eye: “USE CONDOM”, “LETS WALK WITH CONDOM”, “SAFE SEX”……………..and it ran on. Definitely awareness is growing. But I feel the casually remarked “many cases of HIV in Dharamsala” needs a little scrutiny. Nevertheless, the irony that the numbers are rising despite growing awareness definitely illustrates the gravity of the situation, a cause for concern and the urgent need to act. Click here to read more...