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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 >>

We Cannot Promote Family Life By Restricting Women's Rights

Thursday, 26 December 2024, 8:08 pm | CNS

To advance human rights and gender equality, all women’s rights and feminist movements, people’s struggles against oppression and gender-based violence - all will have to come together to collectively and collaboratively push back against the rhetorics ... More >>

Black Angels Remind Us Of Centuries Of Injustices Plaguing The TB Response

Sunday, 22 December 2024, 6:39 pm | CNS

We conveniently refer to TB as a 'disease of the poor' but shy away from saying the truth- that those who enjoy privileges, rights, entitlements and live a life free from hunger, poverty, homelessness and other forms of discriminations, are much less ... More >>