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Are We Putting Money Where The Mouth Is To Reach The Missing Millions?
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 7:41 am | CNS
Unless we find people with TB and put them on treatment, how will we be able to reduce avoidable human suffering, untimely deaths, and break the chain of infection transmission? Finding TB remains the critical entry point to TB care pathway. Amidst ... More >>
Will The World Leaders Walk The Talk To End TB At The Upcoming UN High Level Meeting?
Tuesday, 19 September 2023, 6:35 am | CNS
Leaders of all the UN member countries are expected to convene on 22nd September 2023 at the upcoming second United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting (UNHLM) on TB (the first one was held in September 2018). The theme of this year's UNHLM ... More >>
Long Walk To Transgender Rights And Gender Equality
Saturday, 12 August 2023, 6:23 am | CNS
Although governments have committed to achieve gender equality by 2030, yet the progress is way off the mark. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres had recently said that it will take another 300 years to achieve full gender equality. ... More >>
WHO Award Shines Spotlight On Thailand's Statistical Agency And Tobacco Control
Saturday, 29 July 2023, 6:23 am | CNS
Tobacco industry has used deception and lies to market its deadly tobacco products and lure children and young people to killer addiction over the decades. But it was only data, science and evidence that provided rock solid ground to health justice ... More >>
Strong local actions are pivotal to reduce NCDs, TB and tobacco use in Bangladesh
Sunday, 23 July 2023, 6:18 am | CNS
Unless global goals do not become a reality in the lives of every person worldwide, we will fail to deliver on those promises. Local actions are key. That is why the Mayors of several municipalities in Bangladesh and other local government leaders ... More >>
Midway To Agenda 2030: Why Are We Off The Track On Gender Equality?
Thursday, 20 July 2023, 8:12 pm | CNS
With only 90 months left to fulfil the Agenda 2030 promises made by our governments 90 months ago, we are far off the track. A United Nations report released this week shows that out of the 114 countries studied, not one has achieved gender equality. ... More >>
The Head Must Follow What The Hand Writes
Sunday, 18 June 2023, 6:25 pm | CNS
We are about to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the first-ever United Nations High Level Meeting (UN HLM) on the fight against tuberculosis (TB) that was held on 26 September 2018 during the 73rd UN General Assembly. "The UN meeting resulted ... More >>
Close The Tap: Mopping The Floor Approach Is Not Enough To End TB
Saturday, 13 May 2023, 6:29 pm | CNS
As per the latest Global TB Report of the World Health Organization (WHO), globally 10.6 million people developed TB in 2021 - an increase of 4.5% from 10.1 million in 2020. Eight of the thirty high TB burden countries (India, Indonesia, China, Philippines, ... More >>
The Conundrum Of TB, Tobacco Use And NCDs In Asia Pacific
Sunday, 26 March 2023, 5:37 am | CNS
Asia Pacific region had over 6.7 million new TB cases and over 883,000 people died of TB in 2021, as per the latest Global TB Report of the World Health Organization (WHO). The top 5 biggest risk factors that caused TB disease in 2021 in Asia Pacific ... More >>
Will Lessons From Covid-19 And TB Vaccine Rollout Improve Pandemic Preparedness And Health Security?
Thursday, 23 March 2023, 7:30 pm | CNS
TB high burden countries India and Nigeria both have had decades of experience in rolling out the TB vaccine. Both nations were successful (even if not ideal) in reaching out to a large part of their populations with COVID-19 vaccination. Are there any ... More >>
Blunting Of AIDS Epidemic: It's Time For Zero-complacency And Stronger Action
Sunday, 19 March 2023, 6:55 pm | CNS
After over 42 years when HIV virus was first detected, the fight against AIDS has indeed come a long way. Ending AIDS by 2030 means that every person globally has access to full spectrum of combination prevention options to protect oneself from ... More >>
We Cannot End TB If We Leave The Older People Behind
Friday, 10 March 2023, 6:24 am | CNS
Despite an alarming TB burden among the older people, programmatic response to address it is far from optimal, said Dr Vijay Kumar Arora, Chairperson of TB Association of India, who is also the Chairperson of Southeast Asia region of the International ... More >>
When Disease Burden Is Low, Why COVID-19 Continues To Be A Pandemic?
Sunday, 5 March 2023, 5:52 am | CNS
On 30 January 2023, three years after the WHO had first declared COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern, the WHO announced that COVID-19 continues to be a public health emergency of international concern. "While the virus is ... More >>
It Is Time To Get Back To Basics If We Are To End TB
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 6:35 am | CNS
This year’s World TB Day theme is #WeCanEndTB. However, many nations in the global north were successful in eliminating TB as a public health threat many decades back. "We can end TB in India and many other high burden nations. It is achievable ... More >>
Smoking Rates Decline In Cambodia But Challenges Remain To #endTobacco
Sunday, 26 February 2023, 5:48 am | CNS
New study findings show that the number of tobacco smokers in Cambodia has declined by one-fifth during the 2014-2021 period. However, to end tobacco use which remains the single largest preventable cause of diseases and untimely deaths, stronger urgent ... More >>
Shadow Pandemic: Gender-based Violence Is One Of The Biggest Human Rights Violations
Friday, 3 February 2023, 6:38 am | CNS
Although the world gave unprecedented attention to the COVID-19 pandemic, yet it has long ignored paying heed to one of the most widespread violations of human rights globally: sexual and other forms of gender-based violence – a shadow pandemic that ... More >>
Whither Women's Reproductive Health In Asia Pacific
Sunday, 29 January 2023, 6:13 am | CNS
While the world has made many advancements in healthcare, millions of women and girls in low- and low-middle income countries are still far away from having bodily autonomy and are not able to make informed decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive ... More >>
Violence Against Women And Girls Is Not Cultural But Criminal
Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 7:49 pm | CNS
Violence against women and girls remains the most pervasive human rights violation around the world. It manifests itself in many forms: sexual violence, physical violence, emotional and psychological violence, harmful traditional practices, socio-economic ... More >>
Closing Window Of Opportunity To Save The Medicines That Save Us From Sexually Transmitted Infections
Friday, 2 December 2022, 6:29 am | CNS
Antimicrobials have been widely used to fight diseases, including sexually transmitted infections (STIs), for nearly 80 years. Penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic, was used for the first time to treat and cure syphilis in 1943. However, bacteria ... More >>
Moment Of Truth: Will Thailand Lead From The Front In Combating Antimicrobial Resistance?
Monday, 28 November 2022, 7:54 pm | CNS
Do we not dread an unfortunate situation of being infected with an incurable (or difficult to treat) disease? We saw how COVID-19 (to which there is no cure yet) jolted not only the global health security but also economic and social security ... More >>
