1-5-04 Host: Kathy Davis

Ban on Ephedra and Treating Hepatitis C

  • Kathy Davis interviews Monica Miller, a lobbyist for the Foundation for the Advancement of Innovative Medicine (www.faim.org) and Arnie Gore of the Consumer Health Freedom Coalition about the recent FDA ban on ephedra. Click here for the whole show (14 meg)
  • Second segment: Hepatitis C – 2d part of the series on complementary therapies, with Kathy Davis

12-29-03 Hosts: Kathy Davis and Mark Hannay

Treating Hepatitis C and CAFTA

Monday September 15th Health Action will look at the New WTO Rules on the Generic Manufacture of Life Saving Drugs in Poor Countries and the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS
 

 

 

Monday August 4th: Natalie Burnham will discuss female genital cutting with Molly Melching, founder and director of Tostan, a Senegalese based health and hygene organization. More information can be found at www.tostan.org.

 

Tostan's program was critical to the dramatic and unprecidented decision by 282 villages....with an average population of 800...to declare publicly that they were abandoning female genital cutting, a practice tightly woven into the fabric of their culture many generations ago. Tostan anticipates that many additional communities will make public declarations of abandonment before the end of 2000. The men and women pledging not to have their daughters and granddaughters cut are making this decision of their own free will and because they truly understand it is in their best interest.

 

Our last two shows can be listened to by clicking on the links below. They are in mp3 file format and can also be downloaded to you computer and mp3 player. To download click on the link andhold until you see a menu and select the 'save to disk' option.You can rename the file at this point as well.

 

Mon., July 28, 1:00-2:00 pm: Health Action, with Natalie Burnham
Click here to listen to first 30 min (5meg).
Click here to listen to second 30 min. (5meg)

 

 

Mon., July 21, 1:00-2:00 pm: Health Action, with John Riley and Bob Lederer.

**Critique of Bush's global AIDS policies. Click here to listen to first 30 min. (5 meg) Since George W. Bush was selected by the Supreme Court to be President of the United States, more than 7 million people have died globally from AIDS because they did not have access to medications and nutrician that would have extended their lives. Today we’ll be exploring the efforts being made by activists and the proclamations being made by governement officials about those initiatives.

Health Action interviews Paul Zeitz, executive director of the The Global AIDS Alliance or GAA about George W. Bush’s Global AIDS policies, and Katie Krauss of ACT-UP/Philadelphia and the AIDS Policy Project about problems with Bush's $15billion dollar plan.Information can be found at www.globalaidsalliance.org, action alerts can be found at http://www.stopglobalaids.org. Overhead costs for Bush's Bilateral Emergency AIDS Relief Program will be 30-40% while the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has an overhead of 3%.See the AIDS Policy project website for more information.

**In the second half Bob Lederer looks at the latest on legal status of medical marijuana, with guests from Marijuana Policy Project. Click here to listen to last 30 min.(5meg)