Fixing minimum and maximum income bars is vital for equitable society

Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant, Sandeep Pandey
[First published in Socialist Party (India)]
[Hindi] Government doctors (and other employees) demanding salary hike is a common news. Succumbing to the temptation of greener pastures, government doctors moving to private hospitals in the country or migrating abroad is also fairly common. 

Countdown is on: 32 months left to achieve 90:90:90 HIV targets

UP Health Minister Siddharth Nath Singh met a high level delegation of AIDS Society of India (national network of HIV medical experts) led by ASI President Dr Ishwar Gilada and Head of Microbiology Department of Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) Professor (Dr) Tapan N Dhole. "Master plan is needed to control HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infections in UP" said Dr Ishwar Gilada, who is among the few doctors to begin HIV care when the first case got diagnosed in India in 1986.

Zimbabwe scales up fight against TB

Locadia Mavhudzi, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe remains a country with a high burden of TB. It ranks amongst the world’s top 30 high TB burden countries, with the mining communities and prisons registering a high prevalence rate for this infectious disease. As the country joined the rest of the world to commemorate World TB Day 2018, the government showcased its significant strides towards reducing new TB cases and deaths.

Ending TB is a multisectoral assignment, not a one-person job

Alice Sagwidza-Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland
The world gathers every year on World TB Day to commemorate and celebrate the milestones achieved so far towards reversing TB trends. There has indeed been a continuous remodeling of consolidated interventions from 1994-2005 focusing on directly observed treatment short course (DOTS), to the Stop TB strategies during 2006-2015, and now for 2016 -2030 focusing on the End TB strategy, noted Dr Mario Raviglione, Director at Global Health Centre with the University of Milan.

Air pollution is an invisible killer: Denial will cost lives!

#WorldHealthDay2018 special
Source: WHO Air Pollution monitor
A senior editor in Thailand is being victimized for putting spotlight on an issue that the World Health Organization (WHO) refers to as "invisible killer" of over 6.5 million people globally every year. Air pollution warrants much more urgency to save lives and help people breathe life, and not inhale deadly disease-causing polluted air.

Bad politics put people at risk of TB, but is TB on the political agenda?

The most hard-hitting message around World Tuberculosis Day 2018 for us was on twitter by Shirin Aliabadi, who tweeted that Dr Richard Horton (Editor in chief of The Lancet) said, politics is, in many ways, the ultimate determinant of our health. Bad decisions made by politicians determine our well-being in so many ways.

Addressing gender inequity to eradicate TB in India

Pritha Roy Choudhury, CNS Correspondent, India
Rajni, the 19 year old  girl who helps us with the domestic chores, suffers from some physical disability. She cannot walk properly. Hailing from a financially challenged family, her father drives a rickshaw while her mother contributes to the household income by ironing clothes. She and her two sisters work as domestic helps.

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[Podcast] Partnerships based on solidarity and trust are key for SDGs


Partnerships should be based on solidarity and trust and not on greed

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)
[Click here to listen or download the audio podcast] Partnerships that are critically important to progress towards a better world where a just social order is a reality for everyone, must be based on solidarity and trust, and not on greed. So believes Wardarina Thaib, who works at Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) and is co-chair of Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism (AP-RCEM), which is a platform for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Asia Pacific region to engage with different processes at the United Nations (UN).