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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 >>
Engaging Youth In Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance To Protect Health And Food Security
Monday, 16 December 2024, 10:01 pm | CNS
Insights from a range of young people who are the harbingers of change – and call for more engagement in improving response to drug resistance or antimicrobial resistance which is among top 10 global health threats. More >>
Reaching The Unreached To Find Missing TB Cases
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 9:21 pm | CNS
Globally almost a third of people who get active TB disease every year are missed. The number of people with TB who are missed in high burden settings (almost all in the Global South) is alarmingly higher than the global average. More >>
Medicines Save Lives But Not When They Stop Working
Monday, 2 December 2024, 10:00 pm | CNS
We need newer medicines but no excuse to misuse or overuse medicines we have. Let us protect the medicines we have that save us, More >>
Antimicrobial Resistance Is Not A Silent Pandemic
Monday, 25 November 2024, 8:16 am | CNS
AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to medicines. As a result, infections (sometimes even minor ones) become difficult or even impossible to treat. More >>
Hospital-Acquired Infections Are Fuelling Antimicrobial Resistance
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 8:51 pm | CNS
Empowering people who deal with AMR and are surviving it will help humanise the issue as everyone is at risk if medicines stop working. More >>
Choices For Women And Girls For HIV Prevention: So Near And Yet So Far
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 11:38 pm | CNS
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, women must be able to choose among a range of HIV prevention options that address their different needs and preferences, at different stages of their lives and lived ... More >>
Are We On The Path To End AIDS By 2030?
Friday, 4 October 2024, 4:08 am | CNS
World leaders had pledged to reduce annual new infections to below 370,000 by 2025, but new HIV infections are still more than 3 times higher, at 1.3 million in 2023. New HIV infections are rising in three regions- the Middle East & North Africa, Eastern ... More >>
My Body, Is It My Own?
Monday, 30 September 2024, 5:41 am | CNS
The lack of bodily autonomy- the right to make free and informed decisions about one’s own body, without coercion or violence- has serious implications for the health and wellbeing of women and girls. More >>
Feminism Is The Bedrock For A Socially Just And Ecologically Sustainable World
Thursday, 19 September 2024, 8:45 pm | CNS
This is the first article as part of CNS trilogy series on envisioning a feminist world that is free, just, and able to support all of us on this planet. More >>
Rocking Chair Syndrome Gripping The TB Response?
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:34 am | CNS
Importance of whole of government and whole of society approach can never be overemphasised when it comes to addressing the deadliest of infectious diseases – TB. Time to unite and act is now. More >>
One Step Towards Making The World Free Of TB
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:08 pm | CNS
Based on a real-life testimony of a homeless person who (despite living within a km of one of the best government hospitals in Delhi) would not have got TB services without the support of a frontline community health worker. More >>
Reaching The Unreached Migrants In Unorganised Workforce With Health Services
Monday, 26 August 2024, 9:04 pm | CNS
According to the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Government of India, the workers in the unorganised sector constitute about 93% of the total workforce in the country. A lot of them are informal migrant workers who live in difficult conditions and are ... More >>
AIDS Deaths Declining Globally Except In Eastern Europe And Central Asia
Monday, 26 August 2024, 8:37 pm | CNS
AIDS-related deaths have declined worldwide except in Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. The latest data from joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released last month shows that as compared to 2010, AIDS-related deaths have declined ... More >>
AIDS Response Caught In A Debt Trap
Saturday, 17 August 2024, 7:11 pm | CNS
Debt trap is forcing countries to repay the interest on their debt instead of investing in health, education and social protection, jeopardising the progress towards SDG goals and targets. More >>
No One Is Immune To Antimicrobial Resistance
Saturday, 10 August 2024, 6:16 pm | CNS
Resistant microbes can pass between animals, plants and food, and in the environment. A "One Health" approach which recognises that the health of animals, humans, plants and the environment are interlinked is therefore essential to respond to AMR. More >>
AIDS Is At A Crossroads: Would Governments Expand The Proven Key Population-led Services?
Thursday, 8 August 2024, 6:33 pm | CNS
The latest UNAIDS report released last month at the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024), contains evidence that most HIV transmissions occur with people who do not know their status. More >>
Youth-led Initiatives Spark Hope For Children And Adolescents Living With HIV
Thursday, 1 August 2024, 4:54 am | CNS
"As a young person living with HIV, I had self-stigmatised myself due to the fear of discrimination… fear of discrimination if I dare disclose my HIV positive status to others… this fear had stopped me from living life like a normal person,” said ... More >>
If Some Countries In Asia Pacific Can Be On Track To End AIDS Then Why Cannot All?
Sunday, 28 July 2024, 5:01 am | CNS
Not just richer nations like New Zealand are meeting some of the 2025 HIV-related targets but also low- and middle-income countries like Nepal, Cambodia and Thailand in Asia and the Pacific region. More >>
Alarm Rings In Asia Pacific For Not Making U-equals-U And HIV Prevention Accessible To All
Friday, 26 July 2024, 4:45 am | CNS
The latest 2024 data from United Nations joint programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) show that highest number of people who got newly infected with HIV in Asia and the Pacific region in 2023, were linked to those who do not know that they were HIV positive. More >>
