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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 preven...

As world's largest AIDS conference ( XIX International AIDS Conference ) on the theme of 'turning the tide together' is ab...

Members of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Bangalore and several other human rights organisations and individuals i...

Sounds funny, does it? But these plaintive cries (nay wails) are reverberating in every nook and corner of Lucknow these days, whose c...

Close to the heels of making tuberculosis a notifiable disease, the Government of India has now banned the import, sale, manufacture a...

Indo-US Nuclear Deal was the first attempt by the Indian government to open up its nuclear establishment to the outside world. It was o...

The National Hijra Habba (festival) held recently in Delhi brought out in the open the deep anguish and silent suffering of the transgen...

A strong criticism of the irrational expenditure of Rs 35 lakhs on the renovation of Planning Commission toilets has been a blessing in d...

In a new fillip to the much needed TB Vaccine research, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a grant of 3 million dollars to T...

There is no candidate fielded by any major political party against Dimple Yadav, Samajwadi Party's candidate for Kannauj Lok Sabha sea...

In the last week of March, 2012, I received an email from a stranger living in Chandigarh, requesting for counseling as his 34 years old w...

The transgender, 'hijra' or 'kinnar' community is visible as usually its members can be spotted easily by way of their a...

In the lead up to the XIX International AIDS Conference ( AIDS 2012 ), Citizen News Service ( CNS ) is facilitating an online consul...

Raveena Bariha ,   the fire brand graduate tribal hijra activist from Chattisgarh (a relatively backward state of India) is lovingly cal...

[ हिंदी ] Different political parties have been forwarding their choices for the President's post. In the beginning it appeared that...

Pehchān , in association with India HIV/AIDS Alliance ,  recently organized a  national consultation, aptly called Hijra Habba (Habba is...

With the theme “Stop Tobacco Industry Interference”, World No Tobacco Day 2012 highlights the critical need to meet head on the aggressive ...

[ हिन्दी ][ English report card ] [ हिन्दी रिपोर्ट कार्ड ] Youth participants of Rights and Responsibilities Summer Training Camp curren...

On this World No Tobacco Day (WNDT 2012) it would be worthwhile to remember that ‘tobacco products are the only legally available product...

Tobacco is the single most preventable cause of death in the world today. Yet it kills nearly 6 million people each year, which includes s...

[ RTI applications ] [ हिन्दी ] The Lucknow youth participants of the ongoing Rights and Responsibilities Summer Training Camp at Prof...

Photo credit: Shobha Shukla-CNS Jyoti (name changed) hails from rural Uttar Pradesh which has a high prevalence rate of smokeless tobac...

[ हिंदी ] Renowned Lucknow Surgeon Professor (Dr) Rama Kant will be conferred upon the honorary Fellowship of the College of Surgeons ...

This is the story of Vani (name changed), a 43 years old mother of two bubbly kids—Kajal and Tarun (names changed) aged 13 years and 10 yea...

Tobacco, the age old slow poison, takes a human life every eight seconds, which means approximately 6 million deaths annually. It is consum...

A study titled Lost in Transition: Transgender People, Rights and HIV Vulnerability in the Asia-Pacific Region was released in Bang...

A beautiful healthy smile is an enviable asset one can possess but, despite longing for pearly white teeth, we willingly fall prey to som...

India currently holds the dubious distinction of being the second largest producer and the second largest consumer of tobacco in the wor...

By Jittima Jantanamalaka, CNS Thailand Part 2: T ake Control of Asthma - Assure Access to Quality Affordable Medicines  [Tha...

[ हिंदी ] On one hand the Indian Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) needs to be complimented for making tuberculosis (TB) a no...

The key to fighting the tobacco menace is engaging youth at the forefront of the battle, with both youth focused tobacco control program...

Tobacco is the only legal consumer product that kills when used exactly as indicated by the manufacturer. This catastrophe called tobacc...

Tobacco was considered as an alien product in India and was not welcome to begin with. However, the widespread uptake of tobacco habit as w...