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Spotlight on Tuberculosis control in Thailand
Monday, 3 December 2012, 5:42 pm | Citizen News Service
Thailand is one of the 22 TB high burden countries in the world. According to the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2012, Thailand, with a population of 70 million, had about 86,000 TB incident cases and 110,000 TB prevalent cases in past year. More >>
Call for a Comprehensive Approach to Childhood Pneumonia
Monday, 12 November 2012, 10:29 am | Citizen News Service
According to the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), child pneumonia remains a major threat to children under 5 years of age despite the great potential of the pneumococcal vaccine. “Pneumococcal vaccine is an important ... More >>
Comprehensive, Integrated Action To Control Heart Disease
Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 1:55 pm | Citizen News Service
(CNS): Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the world's largest killers, claiming 17.3 million (1 crore 73 lakhs) lives a year. Risk factors for heart disease and stroke include raised blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels, smoking, inadequate ... More >>
Progress and Challenges in the Search for an HIV Vaccine
Monday, 10 September 2012, 1:35 pm | Citizen News Service
Scientists from around the world will gather in Boston next week to present more than 400 new research studies updating global progress in the search for a safe and effective HIV vaccine. AIDS Vaccine 2012, the world's only scientific meeting dedicated ... More >>
Staff Accountability Is Defined In Juvenile Justice Act
Wednesday, 5 September 2012, 11:25 am | Citizen News Service
At a recent training workshop for Child Welfare Committee (CWC) members, at which I was invited as the guest expert on the issue of "Child Rights and Convergence of Related Agencies to Ensure access to Juvenile Justice System for a child in distress," ... More >>
Women Suffer More With Rising Trade Globalization
Friday, 17 August 2012, 9:04 am | Citizen News Service
Women Suffer More With Rising Trade Globalization Shobha Shukla – CNS (CNS): In an increasingly globalised world, the impact of trade and investment liberalisation is an important area of policy focus. With the emergence of bilateral free trade ... More >>
Clinical Efficacy Into Public Health Effectiveness
Tuesday, 14 August 2012, 11:52 am | Citizen News Service
Translating Clinical Efficacy Into Public Health Effectiveness Bobby Ramakant – CNS (CNS): At the recently concluded XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), not only the decibels went up on ending AIDS but also sane voices were heard demanding ... More >>
Community Engagement Is Key
Monday, 13 August 2012, 9:51 am | Citizen News Service
Community Engagement Is Key As Rectal Microbicides Research Progresses Ahead Bobby Ramakant – CNS (CNS): While interviewing a range of experts involved with research, development and advocacy of new HIV prevention tools at the recently concluded XIX ... More >>
Mother's Milk Is The Best Nutrition For The Child
Tuesday, 7 August 2012, 12:27 pm | Citizen News Service
Mother's Milk Is The Best Nutrition For The Child World Breastfeeding Week, 1-7 August 2012 Shobha Shukla – CNS (CNS): Mother’s milk is the ideal nutritionally perfect food for newborns and infants. It is like nectar for the infant and is aptly ... More >>
Legal barriers block care services for same sex couples
Tuesday, 31 July 2012, 1:27 pm | Citizen News Service
Despite alarming HIV rates amongst the men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people, many countries, community leaders, media and society at large continue to hold discriminating stereotypes against them. "Punitive laws will drive MSM ... More >>
Double-Trouble: HIV and hepatitis C virus
Monday, 30 July 2012, 11:30 am | Citizen News Service
Double-Trouble: HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) Ishdeep Kohli – CNS (CNS): In communities where sharing of injecting equipment drives the HIV epidemic, a parallel epidemic of hepatitis C virus (HCV) often lurks quietly. A couple of days before ... More >>
After 19 years of neglect, female condoms in spotlight
Monday, 30 July 2012, 11:28 am | Citizen News Service
After 19 years of neglect, female condoms in spotlight at AIDS 2012 Ishdeep Kohli - CNS (CNS): Nineteen years after female condoms were approved by the US FDA in 1993, they are not yet available as widely as one would have wished. What could have delayed ... More >>
Access to treatment – mapping the progress, seeing the gaps
Friday, 27 July 2012, 5:27 pm | Citizen News Service
Here at the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released an important report tracking progress in implementing policies, strategies and tools to roll out coverage of anti-retroviral treatment ... More >>
Where Is The TB Quilt, Nay Mask?
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 1:44 pm | Citizen News Service
During the opening plenary session of XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), Secretary of State of USA Hillary Rodham Clinton made a fervent appeal to end the epidemic of AIDS and hoped to be able to stop the AIDS Memorial Quilt (which has ... More >>
AIDS-free generation is within reach
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 1:40 pm | Citizen News Service
The fight against HIV/AIDS is currently viewed with considerable more optimism than in the past years because powerful interventions have been developed, proven effective and refined. More >>
HIV prevention needs more tools such as microbicides
Monday, 2 July 2012, 4:56 pm | Citizen News Service
Vaginal and anal sex continue to put millions of people at risk those who are unable to use or negotiate the use of existing HIV prevention options. Microbicides, although currently under research, are being seen as an important new HIV prevention tool ... More >>
Tobacco - a threat to human health
Monday, 11 June 2012, 1:40 pm | Citizen News Service
Tobacco, the age old slow poison, takes a human life every eight seconds, which means approximately 6 million deaths annually. It is consumed in many forms, all of which are equally harmful. It could be smoked as cigarettes and cigars, or used in smokeless ... More >>
Transgendered Indians Hold Landmark Meeting
Tuesday, 5 June 2012, 11:19 am | Citizen News Service
(CNS): Pehchān, in association with India HIV/AIDS Alliance, recently organized a national consultation, aptly called Hijra Habba (Habba is a Kannada word meaning festival), in Delhi to draw attention to the current challenges facing the transgender ... More >>
India’s tobacco challenge
Monday, 28 May 2012, 5:05 pm | Citizen News Service
India currently holds the dubious distinction of being the second largest producer and the second largest consumer of tobacco in the world. Not a particularly dignified title, considering that tobacco kills half of its dedicated users prematurely in ... More >>
Tuberculosis Is a Women's Issue Too
Monday, 12 March 2012, 11:50 am | Citizen News Service
Today is March 8, and across the world the International Women's Day is being commemorated. Coincidentally, March is the global tuberculosis (TB) awareness month. The disease, which is caused by a mycrobatrium, has a major impact on women's sexual reproductive ... More >>
