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Gender Stereotypes Plaguing The Pandemic Response
Friday, 31 July 2020, 4:48 pm | Shobha Shukla
As per a recent news, a senior bureaucrat in Lucknow said, "The increase in female infection (of COVID-19) ratio is a clear indication that women are going out in the market and not following the precautions [for COVID-19 prevention]". ... More >>
Never Say Die: Disability Is Not About Inability
Saturday, 18 July 2020, 7:58 am | Shobha Shukla
They may be differently abled, but they do not lack in ability. Yes, I am talking about the more than one billion people in the world who live with some form of disability. They could be persons with impaired functions of the senses, mobility, cognition ... More >>
Beyond Tokenism: Accelerating Rights Of Women And Girls In A Post-COVID Era
Wednesday, 15 July 2020, 7:09 am | Shobha Shukla
I am tempted to share this very recent photograph of a newly done up mural in a very prominent area of my city barely a stone-throw distance from the state parliament. It is a clear depiction of what our patriarchal society wants its women to be-meek ... More >>
How Will India Deliver COVID-19 Vaccine For 'Public Health Use' By 15 August 2020?
Sunday, 5 July 2020, 7:34 am | Shobha Shukla
The news gives us tremendous hope that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is aiming to introduce India's first indigenous vaccine against COVID-19 for "public health use" by 15 August 2020 (India's Independence Day). This could be a scientific ... More >>
Public Services Are Essential To COVID-19 Response And For Fairer And Equitable World
Friday, 26 June 2020, 6:43 am | Shobha Shukla
The United Nations marked this year's Public Service Day online celebrations by honouring the women and men who are risking their lives and health to deliver essential public services amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. UN bestowed the UN Public Service ... More >>
Rise In Gender-based Violence During COVID-19 Warrants A Gendered Response
Monday, 25 May 2020, 7:26 am | Shobha Shukla
Preventing sexual and other forms of gender-based violence (SGBV) before it happens and meeting the needs of all survivors should always be a priority - but it becomes even more of a compelling priority during pandemics and other emergencies. Such crisis ... More >>
Achieving 100:100:100 + zero HIV transmission is must
Wednesday, 24 July 2019, 3:13 pm | Shobha Shukla
It has been 38 years and 1 month since the first case of HIV infection was detected in 1981, reminded Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science (#IAS2019) ... More >>
Self-stigma: Let us do more than just 'talk about it'
Tuesday, 26 July 2016, 2:49 pm | Shobha Shukla
Self-stigma: Let us do more than just 'talk about it' Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service) Photograph is online at: http://bit.ly/2a26KIB Senior HIV activists who have not only helped shape HIV responses on the ground over the years, but also ... More >>
MDR-TB treatment regimen: Short indeed is beautiful
Friday, 8 July 2016, 3:22 pm | Shobha Shukla
MDR-TB treatment regimen: Short indeed is beautiful Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Photograph is online at: http://bit.ly/29l1kYn WHO recently announced new recommendations to speed up diagnosis and improve treatment outcomes for multi ... More >>
Asthma: We can beat it but not kill it
Tuesday, 3 May 2016, 12:00 pm | Shobha Shukla
Asthma: We can beat it but not kill it Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Image is online at: http://bit.ly/1NihcwA More >>
What does it take to beat drug-resistant TB?
Friday, 18 March 2016, 4:38 pm | Shobha Shukla
What does it take to beat drug-resistant TB? Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS More >>
Dialogues for justice, public interest and the common good
Thursday, 8 October 2015, 11:03 am | Shobha Shukla
(CNS): A day after 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) together with grassroots activists, faith-based groups and NGOs organized a side event at ... More >>
Join hands to make the dream of smoke-free society
Monday, 5 October 2015, 3:55 pm | Shobha Shukla
Join hands to make the dream of smoke-free society, a reality! Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service Recently tobacco control representatives from 6 countries-- Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and Nepal - met in Bali, Indonesia, to take ... More >>
Dams and Development
Monday, 5 October 2015, 3:51 pm | Shobha Shukla
Dams and development: Corporate interests and Manipur's struggle for justice Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service 29th September More >>
Whither Future Development Goals?
Friday, 19 September 2014, 11:47 am | Shobha Shukla
Abused by her own family in childhood, Bela (name changed) was sold by a relative and trafficked to India. She eventually came out of her harrowing ordeal, turned her life around and became a peer counsellor and educator with Family Planning Association ... More >>
Negotiations around post-2015 development agenda
Tuesday, 26 August 2014, 4:32 pm | Shobha Shukla
'Watch your step': Negotiations around post-2015 development agenda By Shobha Shukla 26 August, 2014 More >>
Prevention technologies for HIV and STIs at AIDS 2014
Wednesday, 30 July 2014, 5:03 pm | Shobha Shukla
Women of reproductive age have a need for prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV, and family planning methods. More importantly, women need prevention tools/methods that are under their control and do not leave them at the mercy of ... More >>
'Every TB-HIV case is a public health failure...'
Thursday, 24 July 2014, 5:15 pm | Shobha Shukla
So said Helen Ayles. She was quoted by Dr Diane Havlir who was speaking in the plenary of the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) in Melbourne, Australia. Dr Diane Havlir who is a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, ... More >>
Break the silos: drug use, HIV, HCV, TB, laws and funding
Thursday, 24 July 2014, 5:03 pm | Shobha Shukla
Viet Nam is one of the countries in the world that has made remarkable progress over the last decade in not only making harm reduction and HIV services available and accessible for people who use drugs but also reforming laws for supportive health ... More >>
Unhealthy diets are threatening global health
Thursday, 19 June 2014, 5:09 pm | Shobha Shukla
An estimated 65% of the world’s population lives in countries where obesity leads to more deaths than underweight. In 2012, over 40 million children under the age of five were considered overweight or obese, 30 million of who were living in developing ... More >>
