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Will All Children Be Born Free Of HIV, Syphilis And Hepatitis-B By 2030?
Friday, 18 April 2025, 1:31 pm | CNS
Strong evidence since years has repeatedly proven that it is possible to ensure that all children born to parent(s) with HIV, hepatitis-B or syphilis, can be born free of these three infections. More >>
Gender Justice And Health Equity Are Inextricably Linked But Are Programmes Linked?
Friday, 18 April 2025, 9:58 am | CNS
The Lancet Commission report comes at a very timely moment - right on the heels of the recently concluded 69th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), and ahead of the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2025). More >>
Half Of Women Cannot Make Decisions About Their Reproductive Health And Bodily Autonomy
Friday, 4 April 2025, 9:39 am | CNS
But it also means that when it comes to these fundamental aspects of their lives, 44% of partnered women cannot make these essential decisions about their own healthcare, contraceptives, or their sexual health and rights,” said Dawn Minott, Advisor on ... More >>
Is Long-acting HIV Treatment As Good As Taking Daily Pills?
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:58 pm | CNS
As more scientific evidence and lessons from the roll-out of long-acting options come forth, we need to ensure that every person living with HIV is able to access the latest regimens of lifesaving antiretroviral therapy - and all choices of treatment ... More >>
Right To Safe Abortion Cannot Be Dislocated From Human Rights
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:55 pm | CNS
Even though the right to abortion is part of promises made by our governments by endorsing Beijing Declaration 1995 and legally-binding CEDAW and other agreements and declarations, and are critical to deliver on UN SDG-5 for gender equality and ... More >>
Global Day Of Action To Destigmatise Abortion | 28th March
Saturday, 29 March 2025, 9:17 pm | CNS
Even though right to abortion is part of promises made by our governments by endorsing Beijing Declaration 1995 and critical to deliver on UN Sustainable Development Goal-5 for gender equality and human rights, progress is not satisfactory. More >>
Catapulting Funding Crisis Into Opportunity By Getting On Track To End TB And Tobacco Use
Monday, 24 March 2025, 7:42 pm | CNS
We also need to unite and hold governments to account to deliver on the promises made for saving our lives from both: TB and tobacco - along with all other sustainable development goals and targets. More >>
How Can We Leave Those Behind Who Are At Higher TB Risk?
Friday, 21 March 2025, 4:36 pm | CNS
With technological advancements, there is no excuse now to not take laboratories and healthcare services closer to the communities, or even at their doorsteps, in a people-centred and rights-based manner. More >>
Danger Of Substandard And Falsified Medical Products Is Real And Growing
Friday, 21 March 2025, 10:56 am | CNS
The article is based on insights shared by 3 experts who work to address the problem of substandard and falsified medical products. The shocking WHO report of 2017 alarmed us all that 1 in 10 medicine is substandard and falsified in low and middle income ... More >>
Is Patriarchy Petrifying Governments To Deliver On Gender Equality?
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 9:17 pm | CNS
It is not by chance, but by patriarchal purpose and design, that trade treaties are binding and declarations like Beijing Declaration are non-binding. More >>
Change Happens When Gender Inequality Survivors Join Hands To Stop TB
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 6:08 pm | CNS
Jyoti’s message to all women is: “One must be educated, but we must respect even those who are not educated. One should not look down upon the poor. Every life matters, every life is important. We must strive to protect every life as a fellow human being.” More >>
30 Years Since Beijing Declaration Was Adopted, It Is Time For Accountability On Failure To Deliver On All Promises
Monday, 10 March 2025, 10:33 pm | CNS
Governments and other stakeholders are meeting at the 69th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) this month to review the progress (or lack of) made on Beijing Declaration 1995 and its Platform for Action. More >>
#EndLeprosy Pathway Is Through Stopping Stigma Against Affected Persons
Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 6:25 pm | CNS
Once feared as an incurable neglected tropical disease, leprosy has been treatable and curable with modern medicines since early 1980s. If diagnosed early and treated promptly, it is not disabling too. More >>
With Only 70 Months Left To End AIDS Why Is The Urgency Missing?
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 11:12 am | CNS
The article is based on insights from three leaders in HIV response globally as well as in Asia Pacific region and India. Not even urgency is missing but the focus on scaling up prevention, treatment, care and support – all is off the targets set ... More >>
Urgent And Accelerated HIV Service Delivery With Equity And Rights Is Critical To End AIDS
Saturday, 22 February 2025, 4:18 pm | CNS
The 95-95-95 targets to be achieved by 2025 mean that 95% of all people living with HIV should know their status, 95% of those who know their status should receive lifesaving antiretroviral therapy, and 95% of those on the treatment should be virally suppressed. More >>
Nepal Leads The World With Largest Pictorial Health Warnings On All Tobacco Products
Thursday, 6 February 2025, 11:15 am | CNS
The global tobacco treaty (World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control or WHO FCTC) Article 11 calls upon governments to implement strong pictorial health warnings and help save lives from deadly tobacco. WHO FCTC is ratified by ... More >>
A World Without Leprosy Is A Public Health And Human Rights Imperative
Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 9:20 pm | CNS
Leprosy occurs in more than 120 countries, with around 200,000 new cases reported every year. The reduction in the number of new cases has been gradual. More >>
Frontline Healthcare Workers Dispelling Darkness Below The Lamp
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 9:41 am | CNS
TB services are free of cost in India’s public health system, and government TB clinics are doing great work in diagnosing and treating TB. But we do need trained community healthcare workers-the likes of Pinky and Sunil-powered by models like ... More >>
Will The Drive To Find-treat-prevent TB Continue Till We End TB?
Monday, 13 January 2025, 6:16 pm | CNS
India’s 100-days campaign to find, treat and prevent more TB in high-risk people must continue beyond 100 days. This initiative is an important shift towards ending TB, but it would be “too late, too little” if it ends on the 100th day. More >>
India Shifting Gears To Get On The Right Track To End TB
Saturday, 4 January 2025, 6:00 pm | CNS
India’s Health Minister had said two weeks ago that the “focussed campaign of 100 Days is an effort to quickly detect and treat TB patients in 347 most affected districts in 33 states across the country. The government is working on the 4Ts - Test, Track, ... More >>
