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When Worlds Collide #104: Dengue Control sans Chemicals?
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 25 April 2014 Last week, discussing dengue fever as a silent disaster, I wrote: “For now, there is no specific antiviral drug or effective vaccine against dengue. … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Development, Disaster, Disaster Communication, Education, Environment, Environmental management, Public health, Public policy, Sri Lanka, Urban issues, Waste, Waste Management, Water
Tagged Aedes aegypti, Canada’s International Development Research Centre, community participation, dengue, Dengue fever, Dengue Free Sri Lanka, dengue virus, Dr A R Wickremasinghe, Dr Michael Nathan, Dr Wimal Abeyewickreme, environmental sanitation, Gampaha district, IDRC, India, Indonesia, J Sommerfeld, K Karunatilake, Kroeger Axel, less insecticides, Myanmar, national mosquito control week, Pathogens and Global Health December 2012, Philippines, public health, silent disaster, socio-cultural factors, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Sri Lanka, Successful dengue control programmes, Thailand, University of Kelaniya’s Faculty of Medicine, Waste management, WHO, World Health Organisation
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When Worlds Collide #81: Who Added Conspiracy to Our Milk?
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 1 September 2013 After nearly a month of confusion and panic, the government now says it “probably overreacted” in its response to stories of contamination in milk … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Business & Commerce, Conspiracy Theories, Disaster Communication, Environment, Environmental management, Journalism, Media, Public health, Public perceptions, Sri Lanka
Tagged dicyanamide (DCD), Dr Carlo Fonseka, Dr Colvin Goonaratna, Dr Krisantha Weerasuriya, Dr Kumariah Balasubramaniam, Dr Seneka Bibile, Dr Tissa Vitharana, Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, food safety, GMOA, Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Government Medical Officers’ Association, Health Action International Asia-Pacific, health hazards, import of milk from New Zealand, Professor Chandrasiri Niriella, public intellectuals, rational drugs use, SLMA, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, Sri Lanka Medical Association, Sri Lanka’s drug policy, The Lancet, UNCTAD, Ven. Gangodawila Soma, WHO, World Health Organisation
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When Worlds Collide #78: Homicide by Pesticides: Can we escape?
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 11 August 2013 Everybody lives downstream of somebody else! That was the core message in a column I wrote a year ago (26 August 2012) … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Communicating Development, Documentary Film, Documentary films, Education, Environment, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Public health, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Water
Tagged agrochemicals, Badulla, Bangkok, Bhutan, chronic kidney failure, CKDu, Consumer Protection, Dr Bhichit Rattakul, Dr Kong Luen "K.L." Heong, Everybody lives downstream, Fertiliser subsidy, HARTI, Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute, Homicide by Pesticides, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Lanka Ministry of Agriculture, M A C S Bandara, M M M Aheeyar, M T Padmajani, Nuwara Eliya, organic food, Pesticides, Registrar of Pesticides, Si Moom Wong market Bangkok, Toxic Trail, vegetable and potato farmers, WHO, World Health Organisation
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When Worlds Collide #58: Making Our Roads Safer – Every Life Counts!
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 17 March 2013 See also: When Worlds Collide #53: Saving Lives on India’s ‘Mean Streets’ “You lay crushed Under twisted metal. I held you, stunned until … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Development, Disaster Communication, Documentary Film, Poverty, Public health, Road Safety, Sri Lanka, Transport
Tagged child restraints, Decade of Action for Road Safety, drink-driving, Global status report on road safety 2013, Margaret Chan, motor cycle helmets, National Council for Road Safety (NCRS), Nellie Olang, seat belts, speed limits, University of Moratuwa, Violet Olang, Vivimarie VanderPoorten, WHO, World Health Organisation
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When Worlds Collide #53: Saving Lives on India’s ‘Mean Streets’
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 10 February 2013 Sometimes it takes a personal tragedy to open our eyes to monstrous realities. A few years ago, 17-year-old Shivam Bajpai was struck down … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Development, Disaster, Innovation, Public health, Road Safety, South Asia
Tagged control of bleeding, Decade of Action for Road Safety, Delhi, Global Status Report on Road Safety, Golden Hour, Maharashtra, Piyush Tewari, Rolex Awards for Enterprise, SaveLIFE Foundation, Shivam Bajpai, trauma management, Uttar Pradesh, WHO, World Health Organisation
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When Worlds Collide #24: Kicking Lead in Petrol – Lessons for Cleaning up Dirty Diesel?
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 15 July 2012 My column last week – about World Health Organisation confirming diesel fumes cause lung causer – elicited many responses. Some cautioned that phasing … Continue reading
Posted in Air Pollution, Environment, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Public health, Road Safety, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Transport
Tagged Alice Hamilton, Centre for Environmental Justice, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), Clean Air Sri Lanka, Dr Janaka Ratnasiri, Hemantha Withanage, high sulphur diesel, Lalanath de Silva, NBRO, Prof Manouri Senanayake, Ruwan Weerasooriya, tetraethyl lead (TEL), World Bank, World Health Organisation
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