"In the Rohingya refugee communities, especially with whom I work, the progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-3 (health and wellbeing) and SDG-5 (gender equality) has been deeply uneven and...
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Will we rise to #endAIDS challenge or stumble, withering away the gains in HIV response?
We have all the scientifically proven tools to end AIDS. It is about ensuring that these tools reach people who need them the most, through a sustainable HIV response, so said Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman,...
We can do better so that all people with HIV live healthy normal lifespans
SHOBHA SHUKLA - CNS Love oneself. Stay healthy. And have a health-seeking behaviour to ensure all of us get to age with rights and remain disease-free. People living with HIV must take care of one’s...
Goa to Munich: Growing call for 100-100-100 to end TB and end AIDS before 2030
Over 1500 people from 73 countries are unequivocally demanding that all people with HIV or TB must have access to full cascade of standard health services and social support in people-centred,...
The International Community Must Support and Protect Palestinian Civil Society [EN/AR]
As a group of regional and international organizations, we express our full solidarity with Palestinian civil society and human rights defenders as Israel continues to escalate its attacks to shut...
After years of neglect, growing attention to TB in children in Asia Pacific
Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS TB is a neglected disease, killing 1.5 million people each year. But perhaps the most neglected group of TB patients is the estimated 550,000 million...
Parliamentarians on 'world we want beyond 2015': Sexual and reproductive health and rights in focus
(CNS): The Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs are a new, universal set of 17 proposed goals, with 169 targets that 193 countries (who are members of the UN) will be expected to use to frame their...
Human Rights Day: What is wrong with a rights-based approach to TB care?
Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Well nothing! In fact it is the most correct approach to deal with the global TB crisis of epidemic proportions. In 2013, TB killed 1.5 million people out of...
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Reaching the unreached: ENGAGE TB initiative
Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Photograph is online at:...
Beijing to Bangkok: 20 years journey of triumphs and defeats
Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS (CNS): There are political, economic and cultural constructs that have marred the realisation of the promises made 20 years ago in Beijing around gender...
East Asia Summit adopts unprecedented regional malaria goal
Leaders of the 18 East Asia Summit countries have committed to an ambitious goal of eliminating malaria from the entire Asia Pacific region in the next 15 years. The bold move shows strong leadership...
Should India Sacrifice Agriculture For Trade?
Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service (CNS) Well, any right-minded person would say NO. But the global, as well as the local media, has castigated India for not ratifying the Protocol of Amendment for...
Research to the rescue of disaster management
Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant, Citizen News Service - CNS Photograph is online at: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aSPDdDuIpb8/VB2jysbBqKI/AAAAAAAANvg/VSSe5vuRQ78/s1600/IMG_6970.JPG For management of...
Past, present and future attempts to measure childhood TB
Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service (CNS) The first estimates of the global burden of TB in children given by the WHO in 2012, suggested that there might be 530,000 children suffering from it...
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Australia reinforces its commitment in fight against AIDS
Bobby Ramakant, Citizen News Service (CNS) Australia has taken a lead in supporting public health in India over the years. With XX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) being held in Melbourne,...
New Drug Regimen: A miracle treatment for TB is a near possibility
Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service (CNS) Two years after launching a first of its kind Combination Drug Study for TB treatment in 2010, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance)...
International Respiratory Societies to assist in finding the 3 million "missed" TB cases
A major focus of this World TB Day is the 3 million TB cases that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates are “missed” each year - that is, cases that go undetected, undiagnosed and untreated...
World's largest school-based deworming programme in Bihar
Those children who were left out can receive their dose on 28th January Over 17 million children in Bihar were targeted for deworming treatment using Albendazole, on 23rd January 2014. Albendazole is...
Partners-in-crime: HIV and Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)
AIDS is just one of the manifestations of HIV, said a veteran health advocate. A range of co-infections and co-morbidities also need as much attention as AIDS-related treatment and care. HIV and...
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No excuse to not end HIV transmission to children
Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service – CNS An estimated 3.4 million children are living with HIV, thus accounting for 10% of the total global HIV infected population. At the same time, the number of...