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Innovation is crucial in fight against AIDS
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 12:22 pm | Citizen News Service
India has the world's third-largest population of people living with HIV (PLHIV) - 2.4 million. However, it has been able to make significant progress in recent years by thinking out of the box. This has led to a decline of 50% in the number of new ... More >>
Orchids Bloom: Best practices on harm reduction shared
Friday, 8 November 2013, 12:25 pm | Citizen News Service
Learnings from Project ORCHID's pioneering work on harm reduction in northeast India shows that scale up is possible even in resource poor and conflict ridden settings. A national dissemination workshop organized by Project ORCHID in Delhi saw sharing ... More >>
Changing Masculinity, Preventing Violence Against Women
Thursday, 17 October 2013, 5:15 pm | Citizen News Service
In Bangladesh, a man forced into marriage vents his frustration by beating his wife when she disobeys him. In Cambodia, a husband justifies slapping his wife on the grounds that she must have done something she shouldn’t. More >>
Tobacco Industry Interests In Conflict with Public Health
Thursday, 19 September 2013, 5:16 pm | Citizen News Service
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the world’s first global public health and corporate accountability treaty and to date 177 countries are Parties to it. By signing and ratifying this treaty, these countries are committed to adopt ... More >>
Two diseases, one patient
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 6:39 pm | Citizen News Service
Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) – can we continue to tackle these separately? According to the Global TB Report (2012), in 2011, out of 8.7 million people who developed TB worldwide 1.1 million (13%) were HIV positive. An approximate ... More >>
Are Healthcare workers Tuberculosis Proof?
Monday, 2 September 2013, 10:24 am | Citizen News Service
‘I had to choose between being deaf and being dead’, this is what Dalene von Delft, a Medical Doctor from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, said in her testimony at a two-day Southern Africa meeting held recently to strengthen and scale ... More >>
Scaling Up Natural Fertility Awareness Methods
Friday, 19 July 2013, 2:55 pm | Citizen News Service
If women and girls, and their male partners where possible, are aware of fertility cycle, then it is very likely to increase access to existing family planning services, improve communication between partners, and help them prevent unintended pregnancies ... More >>
Investment Needed to Accelerate Progress
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 2:54 pm | Citizen News Service
In the region of Asia and the Pacific - though there has been continued progress towards fulfilling the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action (PoA) – progress in sexual and reproductive health and rights ... More >>
Most biogas plants tell a dark tale of neglect in Bharawan
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 6:26 pm | Citizen News Service
Despite acute power shortage in rural areas, varying levels of poverty and impoverishment, why is, government's heavily subsidized programme to encourage people in rural areas to install biogas and manure plants for renewable energy production, not an outstanding ... More >>
Investing In Women's Reproductive Health Is Smart Economics
Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 3:07 pm | Citizen News Service
A new World Bank report released at Women Deliver 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, demonstrates that investing in women’s reproductive health is smart economics. This report, formally called "Investing in women’s reproductive health: Closing ... More >>
More girls in Malaysian colleges than boys
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 6:27 pm | Citizen News Service
A girl in Malaysia today is more likely to go to a university than a boy. “65% students enrolled in tertiary colleges are women” said Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak at Women Deliver 2013. While ... More >>
Misconception About Asthma
Monday, 27 May 2013, 12:31 pm | Citizen News Service
Mwololo is a ten year old girl from a Semitic community in Kenya. The little manyatta that serves as her home is inhabited by seven other children; her siblings and cousins. Temporary shelters, communal sharing of resources and caring for their herds is the ... More >>
Call to improve asthma care and control
Monday, 20 May 2013, 11:59 am | Citizen News Service
When there are evidence-based methods to control asthma effectively, then why is the disease burden growing over the past 30 years, particularly in the low- and middle-income countries? More >>
Asthma: Recognising the triggers
Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 5:57 pm | Citizen News Service
Globally, asthma is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality. Cases have increased in the past 20 years especially in children. Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases with over 200 million suffering from it worldwide. If urgent ... More >>
New technique to prevent diabetic lower-limb amputations
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 12:32 pm | Citizen News Service
Today, in India, there are more than 63 million people living with diabetes, second only to China, as per the latest 5th Diabetes Atlas statistics. Being a disease of the blood vessels diabetes affects all organs. More >>
Breaking the Silence Finally on Child Sexual Abuse
Saturday, 23 March 2013, 12:01 pm | Citizen News Service
Child Sexual Abuse is a topic few are ready to discuss much less address. Thus it came as a welcome surprise when in May 2012 the Indian Parliament enacted its first law specifically outlawing child sexual abuse. Prior to that the Protection of Children ... More >>
One-third of all cancers preventable
Tuesday, 5 February 2013, 10:25 am | Citizen News Service
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least one-third of all cancer cases are preventable. Prevention offers the most cost-effective long-term strategy for the control of cancer. Despite strong evidence and clear mandate to protect public ... More >>
Front-page of South Asian newspapers under gender lens
Sunday, 13 January 2013, 11:56 am | Citizen News Service
"Front-page of South Asian newspapers under gender lens" report was released in Lucknow by Vote For Health campaign of Asha Parivar and Citizen News Service – CNS. More >>
Sexual Assault: Demand for Increased Speed, Conviction Rate
Tuesday, 8 January 2013, 8:28 am | Citizen News Service
Demand For Speedy Trial And Higher Conviction Rate In Sexual Assault Cases ALKA PANDE, Citizen News Service - CNS (CNS): While Indians are out on the streets demanding a severe law against rape after the shameful incident in Delhi, another debate has ... More >>
Union model leads to successful TB-HIV collaborative care
Wednesday, 19 December 2012, 7:00 pm | Citizen News Service
In 2004, when the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) launched the Programme of Integrated HIV Care for TB Patients Living with HIV/AIDS (IHC), TB was already a leading killer of people with HIV, but antiretroviral ... More >>
