Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
[podcast] Think again: Are children living with HIV growing into adults living fulfilling lives with dignity?
Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, and other podcast streaming platforms.
Growing up as a girl in rural India: What does it mean?
Adolescence or teenage is that critical phase when one transitions from childhood to adulthood. It is marked by important biological changes and the onset of puberty. This 'growing up' is also about experiencing the joys and challenges of youth. However, for many girls especially those living in rural India, growing up in patriarchal socio-cultural set ups also signifies the tightening of an increased set of regressive controls on their lives, including the denial of going to school. Even after more than a decade of the passing of the Right to Education (RTE) Act in 2009, 37% of girls of age 6 and above in rural areas have never been to school, as per National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 data. Also nearly 40% of rural women aged 15-49 years are illiterate (as against 17% men) and even among those who are literate a mere 27% have 10 or more years of schooling.
#APCRSHR10 Virtual (1): Addressing barriers to accelerate progress on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Asia Pacific
[links to recording and presentations] On 29th June, Monday (1pm Phnom Penh/ Bangkok/ Jakarta | 4pm Canberra | 11:30am Delhi), be welcome to participate in first episode of #APCRSHR10 Virtual on the theme of "Addressing barriers to accelerate progress on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Asia and the Pacific".
Why are strong public services essential for social, economic and health security for all?
Dr Sandeep Pandey calls for inclusive, equitable and quality public education for all
Magysaysay Awardee Dr Sandeep Pandey calls for inclusive and equitable quality, public education for all children. Along with the recording of his talk, also see a poster created by Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore's Abhimanyu Thakur, Mihir Thakar, Nishan Singh Makker, Ojasvi Ganesh, Shivam Kumar and Utkarsh Tiwari from Dr Pandey's #SDGtalks.
- Watch the recording here
[podcast] Inclusive and equitable quality education for all
This Podcast features Dr Sandeep Pandey, as keynote speaker for the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) - a special
series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
Indore from World Health Day (7 April 2020) to World Environment Day (5
June 2020). He spoke on inclusive and equitable quality education for all.
Be welcome to listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, and other podcast streaming platforms.
#SDGtalks featured Dr Sandeep Pandey: Inclusive & equitable quality education for all"
On 4th June (11am to 12 noon India time), the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, featured keynote speaker, Prof Dr Sandeep Pandey, who shared his insights on "inclusive and equitable quality education for all".
A tale with a difference
Shobha Shukla - CNS (Citizen News Service)
This is the story of Razia, a girl from village Bahpur in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. It has all the ingredients of a fairy tale, but with a difference. Razia might not be a run-of the-mill delicate princess depicted in fairy tales, rather she is the warrior princess of a modern day real story. Razia comes from a very poor Muslim family belonging to the barber
community. Abject poverty, an unemployed and visually challenged father;
a daily wage-earning mother, striving unsuccessfully to make ends
meet—all these were enough to snatch away a carefree childhood from her.
Listening to the unheard voices of India
Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)
It is a common practice to interview celebrities and share their success stories. But the real grassroots heroines and heroes rarely get heard. So, for a change, let us listen to what our 13 year old Raveena has to say on girls’ education. It is high time our policy makers paid heed to the experiential knowledge of people like Raveena to ensure that all children receive an education, and help achieve the 2030 sustainable development goals, one of which (SDG 4) envisages to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all.
African Union heeds the voices of girls in distress
Catherine Mwauyakufa, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe
Never in her wildest dreams did she ever think that she would fly! Never did she ever think that she would address heads of states and other important delegates in a pre-conference session. Yet, all this became a reality for Tadiwanashe Naghaina, a 19 year old rural girl from Murehwa, Zimbabwe.
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| Tadiwanashe, 3rd from right, receiving a scholarship in Addis Ababa |
Why The World cannot fight AIDS by ignoring TB?
Francis Okoye, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria
Medical and historical evidence now abound, showing that the world cannot fight AIDS by ignoring TB. In 2015, the world recorded 10.4 million new TB cases of which people living with HIV (PLHIV) accounted for 1.2 million (11%) cases. There were an estimated 1.4 million TB deaths, with 400,000 deaths resulting from TB disease among PLHIV.
Double up efforts to fight the double epidemic of TB-HIV
Alice Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland
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It is no news that the TB bacteria and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) together make up a co-epidemic that presents compounded complications in patients who host them, healthcare workers who have to manage the diseases, advocates and researchers fighting for answers as well as communities who have to cope with the disastrous effects of the co-epidemics.
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It is no news that the TB bacteria and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) together make up a co-epidemic that presents compounded complications in patients who host them, healthcare workers who have to manage the diseases, advocates and researchers fighting for answers as well as communities who have to cope with the disastrous effects of the co-epidemics.
How to prevent people living with HIV from dying of TB
Francis Okoye, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria
At a time in the history of the world (1980’s), for anyone to test positive for HIV was a death sentence. Today medical science has developed robust treatment regimens that allow people living with HIV (PLHIV) to live long, as far as they have access to anti retroviral therapy (ART). But of late, this has been jeopardised with the advancement of TB infections in PLHIV. TB and HIV are deeply intertwined, particularly in Sub saharan Africa. TB has become the leading cause of death among those who are
HIV-positive, despite the fact that today HIV infections can be managed
with ART and TB can be cured in the vast majority of cases.
At a time in the history of the world (1980’s), for anyone to test positive for HIV was a death sentence. Today medical science has developed robust treatment regimens that allow people living with HIV (PLHIV) to live long, as far as they have access to anti retroviral therapy (ART). But of late, this has been jeopardised with the advancement of TB infections in PLHIV. TB and HIV are deeply intertwined, particularly in Sub saharan Africa. TB has become the leading cause of death among those who are
HIV-positive, despite the fact that today HIV infections can be managed
with ART and TB can be cured in the vast majority of cases.
Struggle to get common school system implemented intensifies
Dr Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Awardee and CNS Columnist
[Watch video interview with Dr Sandeep Pandey]
My fast at Gandhi Statue, Hazratganj, Lucknow to get the Allahabad High Court order making it compulsory for anybody in the government system to send their children to government schools implemented ended on the 10th day (15th June 2016) not because of any assurance of the government but because of pressure of my colleagues, well wishers and social activists like Justice Rajinder Sachar, Medha Patkar, Kuldeep Nayar, Dr GG Parikh, Yogendra Yadav, Anand Kumar, Rajendra Singh, PV Rajagopal, Sunilam, Ravi Kiran Jain, Vijay Pratap and my Socialist Party (India) colleagues, both local as well as nationally.
[Watch video interview with Dr Sandeep Pandey]My fast at Gandhi Statue, Hazratganj, Lucknow to get the Allahabad High Court order making it compulsory for anybody in the government system to send their children to government schools implemented ended on the 10th day (15th June 2016) not because of any assurance of the government but because of pressure of my colleagues, well wishers and social activists like Justice Rajinder Sachar, Medha Patkar, Kuldeep Nayar, Dr GG Parikh, Yogendra Yadav, Anand Kumar, Rajendra Singh, PV Rajagopal, Sunilam, Ravi Kiran Jain, Vijay Pratap and my Socialist Party (India) colleagues, both local as well as nationally.
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