Polio eradication has a lesson for TB control

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A week back the door bell rang and two ladies stood with vaccine boxes at my doorstep asking if there were children five years and below in ...

TB Germs Thrive On Poor Nutrition

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TB has been with us since times immemorial. In ancient India it was called Rajrog or the King’s Disease. A benevolent king would dole out go...

Treat Adulthood TB To Prevent Childhood TB

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Children are innocent victims of tuberculosis (which in Hindi is called Kshaya Rog—a disease which wastes away the body). According to th...

Theme II (e-consultation): Getting to zero TB deaths in children by 2015

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( CLICK HERE TO COMMENT !) The  theme II  of the time-limited  online consultation  on childhood tuberculosis (TB) in lead up to the Wo...

Preventing Tuberculosis in Children in spotlight: report

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A SUMMARY REPORT on preventing tuberculosis (TB) in children was released by Citizen News Service (CNS, www.citizen-news.org) and other pa...

Theme 1 e-consultation Summary: Getting to zero TB infections in children by 2015

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The SUMMARY REPORT  has been released on 26th February 2012 of theme 1 online consultation  on childhood tuberculosis (TB) in lead up to...

Whither Our Human Morality?

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It was a sad day indeed when the additional solicitor general (ASG) Mr Malhotra, recently came out strongly against homosexuality, while a...

Solving the puzzle: Diagnosing tuberculosis in children

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Dr Muherman Harun (Indonesia) raises key challenges related to diagnosing TB in children The Citizen News Service (CNS) is conducting an on...

Towards A More Enabling Environment For Effective HIV/AIDS Responses

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A regional consultation, organized jointly by South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation in Law (SAARCLAW), UNAIDS Technical Support...

The Impact of Law On Effective HIV Responses In India

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The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in Law ( SAARCLAW ), UNAIDS Technical Support Facility for South Asia ( TSF-SA ) and Ma...

Patients' Charter for TB Care, and childhood TB

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Will improving efficiency and efficacy of TB control programmes within the healthcare facilities help the world meet the 2015 TB-related tar...

Zero children dying from tuberculosis by 2015 is possible, if...

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Hara Mihalea, PATH (Written by Hara  Mihalea, PATH) I like to start by sharing a real story which I experienced in one of my visits...

Theme 1 (e-consultation): Getting to zero new TB infections in children by 2015

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( CLICK HERE TO COMMENT !) The theme 1 of the time-limited online consultation on childhood tuberculosis (TB) in lead up to the World...

CNS Podcasts: The Gender Agenda - Making HIV Responses Work for Key Affected Women and Girls

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Thai version: English version:

Do not trade away human lives in the "European Union-India Free Trade Agreement"

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  As India and the European Union meet for a Summit in Delhi on 10th February 2012, to iron out the differences over a Free Trade Agreement ...

Women In The Forefront Of The Fight Against HIV/AIDS

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The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( UN-ESCAP ) Inter governmental meeting on HIV/AIDS and Millenni...

Online consultation: How to Get To Zero childhood TB infections and deaths by 2015?

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HAVE YOUR SAY by joining the online consultation. Send an email to :  stop-tb-subscribe@yahoogroups.com The Citizen News Service ...

Medha Patkar Refuses Basava Award from corruption-tainted Karnataka government

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"It would have been an honour to receive Basava award in the name of revolutionary saint poet, philosopher Shri Basaveshwara of 12th c...

Childhood Tuberculosis: Act before it is too late

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(Based on an interview given to CNS by Dr Soumya Swaminathan , at Chennai ART Symposium, 2012) A significant proportion - about 15% to 20% ...

The Gender Agenda: Making HIV Responses Work for Key Affected Women and Girls

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The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( UN-ESCAP ) Inter governmental meeting on HIV/AIDS and Millenni...

Stop gender-based discrimination, adopt healthy lifestyles

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[ हिंदी ]   How gender based discrimination impacts lives of men and women on daily basis and how unethical and misleading corporate marketi...

Critical shortage of skilled health worker ails global health

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Minister of State for Trade and Development, Joe Costello TD addressed the delegates of the Irish Forum for Global Health Conference in the...

Why are health workers important?

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Ireland is, in percentage terms, among the biggest recruiters of foreign trained nurses and doctors among OECD countries.  According to Pro...

Global Health Workforce - Pathways to Health

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The Irish Forum for Global Health 's (IFGH) two days conference, which opened in Dublin on 2nd February, 2012, focuses on the theme of t...

The Bite that kills more than 1.2 million worldwide

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According to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, more than 1.2 millio...

Deathly friendship of bacteria and virus: TB-HIV co-infection

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The clinical course and opportunistic infections of HIV vary from patient to patient and country to country. In India TB is a major op...

NIH-Funded HIV Clinical Research Sites to Join Pediatric TB Vaccine Study

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Aeras , a Rockville, Md.-based non profit organization focused on developing vaccines and other products to prevent TB,  announced on Januar...

From despondency to optimism: 25 years of HIV in India

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The YRG Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai, recently organized with partners the Chennai ART Symposium (CART 2012), and The Int...

Reject corrupt and criminal candidates

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[ Hindi ] An important question rose in the movement against corruption. A lot more money far above the expense limit set by the Election Co...

Chose life, not addictions and stop gender-based discrimination

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[ हिंदी ] Lucknow’s young short-film-maker Manasvi Bhawtosh interacted with the audience at CNS Monthly Film Screening at CNS, C-2211, C-blo...

"Choose life, not tobacco": appeals Shobha Shukla to VIT students

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Since majority of tobacco addiction takes root in young age, children and youth need to be informed of tobacco-related diseases, disabiliti...

Finance minister's pre-budget consultation: Civil society inputs into budget making and governance

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[ हिंदी ] Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister of India, convened a pre-budget consultation with a diverse group of people on 17th January 201...

Biggest threat to citizens lurks within our borders

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Newspapers in India today feature a news prominently where the Army Chief has said that nuclear weapons are not for war-fighting (because i...