Cooking the Planet: Are biomass stoves in the developing world affecting climate change?
Jeremey Roth, Aprovechoi, January 2008

Hi STOVERS!

Televisa: Impact of HELPSi Stove Program in Guatemala
Michelle Hollaender, Helps, International, January 2008

Emissions of dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls from domestic sources Final Report May 2006

Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases, 1st edition May 2003
Prepared by UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP) Chemicals Geneva, Switzerland

Dioxins and their effects on human health
World Health Organization, Fact sheet N°225 June 1999

Assessment of the health risk of dioxins: re-evaluation of the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDIi)

Asia Regional Cookstove Program Letter from the Secretariat May-June 2006 (pdf)

Feature:
WHOi Inter-Regional Training Workshop on Indoor Air Pollution and Household Energy

Air Pollution and Respiratory Health among Honduran Women (2 MB pdf)poster
M.L. Clark,1 J.L. Peel,1 S. Conway,2 J.B. Burch,3 S.J. Reynolds 1 2006

1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, COi; 2Trees Water & People, Fort Collins, COi; 3University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

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ABSTRACT

Smoke's increasing cloud across the globe
Practical Action June 16, 2006

Introduction:

It is in the world’s poorest regions that smoke is a major threat, including China, India and sub-Saharan Africa. On current trends, 200 million more people will rely on these polluting fuels by 2030. Women and children are exposed for up to seven hours a day to pollution concentrations 100 times and more above accepted safety levels. There is ample medical evidence that smoke from burning biomass fuels leads to killer diseases, such as penumonia, chronic bronchitis and lung cancer.

Case–control study of indoor cooking smoke exposure and cataract in Nepal and India (pdf)
Amod K Pokhrel,1 Kirk R Smith,1 Asheena Khalakdina,1,2 Amar Deuja3 and Michael N Bates1*

Our US public broadcasting system recently presented two good programs on AIDSi http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids

For those of you in the field working with AIDSi affected individuals, families and care givers: what impact do improved cooking techniques such as improved cookstoves, retained heat cookers, solar cookers and integrated cooking have on helping to cope with AIDSi?