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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 >>
Zero children dying from tuberculosis by 2015 possible if...
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 10:13 am | Citizen News Service
I like to start by sharing a real story which I experienced in one of my visits in the field last year. I'm sure many of you working in the field have similar stories to tell. During a monitoring visit for our PPM program I came across a referral slip ... More >>
Call for Equality and Empowerment to mark World AIDS Day
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 12:50 pm | Citizen News Service
This year, as the Indian response to HIV/AIDS marks a quarter century, the spotlight is on marginalised groups most impacted by the epidemic. On the eve of World AIDS Day, the Pehchān programme will call for continued and expanded efforts to protect ... More >>
Partnerships In Tuberculosis Control: Together We Can!
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 10:54 am | Citizen News Service
(CNS): “ One Swallow Cannot Make A Summer But Together We Shall Overcome” By Shobha Shukla – CNS More >>
Ground Too Slippery For Micro, Small And Medium Enterprises
Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 10:39 am | Citizen News Service
By Shobha Shukla (CNS) (CNS): In recent years, India’s trade policy is being determined more and more by Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) which threatens access to essential medicines, seeds, and domestic micro, small and medium enterprises. India is currently ... More >>
