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Source: China Daily
 
Requirements for institutions will be lowered under reform
 
International NGOs will find it much easier to become registered in China, as registration approval power has been handed over by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to provincial civil affairs authorities.
 
The move is part of the reforms the ministry has initiated to make NGO operations in China easier.
 
Other measures include preferential taxation, financial support for domestic organizations and a new management system that will loosen the requirements for international NGOs operating in China, said Wang Jianjun, director of the non-governmental organizations department under the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
 
He was speaking at a forum on Thursday in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province.
 
As of the end of last year, 499,000 NGOs had registered with civil affairs authorities at different levels. They employ more than 12 million people, according to Li Liguo, minister of civil affairs.
 
Under the new framework, international NGOs are allowed to register with provincial civil affairs authorities instead of applying to the ministry as before, said Wang. "The requirements for social organizations will be lowered when they register."
 
As early as 2006, the provincial government in Yunnan launched a trial to open its arms to international NGOs.
 
Each of the institutions recorded with the provincial government will be given an ID number and receive help on taxation registration, residence permits for foreign employees and foreign exchange accounts, according to Qin Guangrong, Party chief of Yunnan.
 
Thirty-nine international NGOs have been included on the provincial government's records and they are running 268 charity programs, Qin said. More…
 
 
12/07/2013
Partnership promotes better health(Editorial by Alan Whiteside)
 
Source: China Daily Africa
 
Withdrawal of global donors presents chance for brics to play greater role in fighting diseases
 
For too long Africans have been dependent on aid and medicines from the West - imported knowledge, drugs and dollars - but a welcome shift is occurring in our backyard and around the African continent.
 
Last October, we attended the launch of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV. What is inspiring is the transnational, innovative research being done in South Africa, at the heart of the HIV and TB epidemic, with state-of-the-art equipment.
 
Among the distinguished guests were Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi and the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Premier Zweli Mkhize.
 
A few months ago, South Africa hosted the fifth annual BRICS summit in Durban. This forum, which was held in Africa for the first time, convened leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa on the theme "BRICS and Africa: Partnership for development, integration and industrialization".
 
Partnership promotes better health
 
Good health is a catalyst for economic growth and development. Twenty years ago, the World Bank's 16th World Development Report, subtitled Investing in Health, argued that health is critical for economic growth. It identified four concrete ways to achieve this: reducing lost productivity caused by illness; enabling the use of natural resources previously inaccessible because of disease; increasing school performance and enrolment of children; and freeing resources that would otherwise be spent to treat illness.
 
Across the world, healthcare innovation has allowed us to live longer. Over the past several decades, global life expectancy has improved dramatically - by 35 years since 1970. Gains in life expectancy have been seen in many places, but not in southern Africa, where adult mortality from AIDS has shortened it, and in Haiti, where it is low due to the 2010 earthquake.
 
The pattern of disease is changing. Today, non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of premature death globally, contributing to half or more of all healthy years lost in most countries outside sub-Saharan Africa. Many of these diseases are lifestyle ones, caused by poor diet and lack of exercise and linked with family history. More…
 
09/07/2013
 
Source: China Post (Taiwan)
 
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The number of people with HIV aged between 15 and 24 has shot up to three times the level 10 years ago, according to New Taipei's Public Health Department (PHD).
 
Citing a reported rise in orgies and online dating, the government said it has found that the rate of HIV diagnoses in the country has risen, with the average age of those infected shrinking. The PHD reported that there has been a total of 5291 HIV patient cases up to 2012 in New Taipei.
 
In the 521 new cases reported last year, the PHD stated that 45 percent were aged between 25 and 33 years old, while 28 percent of the cases were aged between 15 and 24. The PHD pointed out that combined, the two age groups account for over 70 percent of those with HIV.
 
The PHD stressed that the number of those in the 15-24 age group old who have been diagnosed with HIV has increased significantly over the past few years, with 49 patients in 2003 and 147 patients in 2012.
 
An official from the PHD, Lee Chia-chi (李佳琪), added that the number of HIV infections caused by sex has risen more than 90 percent, largely due to the increase in unsafe sex practices, orgies and one-night stands.
 
Lee said that those with HIV may be asymptomatic for a period of five to 10 years, which means that humans don't fall ill immediately once they are infected with the virus.
 
She also encouraged people who are sexually active to regularly receive HIV screening tests to discover any early infections, adding that New Taipei has increased the number screening services from 39 to 60. “People can also go online to check for more information,” she said.