Cochrane Review Gives Thumbs Up To GeneXpert Test For Detection Of MDR-TB

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Researchers, from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, McGill University and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), ana...

Health leaders warn that designated smoking areas threaten public health

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Local and international experts warned this week that designated smoking areas in restaurants and workplaces, as allowed in Bangladesh’s ...

TB Is A Social Disease With Medical Consequences

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The Partnership for TB care and control in India announced its first Annual award for TB Champion Individual and TB Champion Organiz...

Thrust on research to protect MSM and transgender people from HIV

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HIV rates among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender community are alarming. Unless we have safe and effective HIV prevention ...

Can HIV Positive Couples Lead A Happy Conjugal Life?

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In Gujarat, people living with HIV are looking at a new therapy – marriage within the community of HIV positive people. Activist activist...

Front-page of South Asian newspapers under gender lens

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[ हिंदी ] " Front-page of South Asian newspapers under gender lens " report was released in Lucknow by Vote For Health campaig...

Call for applications: CNS Health Fellowship Programme 2013 for health writers

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Citizen News Service – CNS is pleased to announce that it is currently accepting applications for new fellows for its CNS Health Fellowshi...

Right To Education A Top Priority: Mayor

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[ हिंदी ] Right to education (RTE) is a top priority, said Dr Dinesh Sharma, Mayor, Lucknow, who was addressing a Child Rights Convention...

Demand for speedy trial and higher conviction rate in sexual assault cases

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While Indians are out on the streets demanding a severe law against rape after the shameful incident in Delhi, another debate has got ini...

People demand tougher laws against sexual assault

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Civil society groups and citizens have submitted a comprehensive list of recommendations today (2nd January 2013) to government-appointe...

New Hope For MDR-TB Patients

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On Dec. 28, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved bedaquiline (Sirturo), as part of combination therapy, to treat adults w...

Prayer for India on this New Year

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Lord Tennyson had rightly said that ' The old order changeth yielding place to new ' and also that 'More things are wrought b...

Tribute to Braveheart

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As her violent demise stuns us into silence, and as we hang our head in shame, it also awakens our dead instincts into a quiet but determ...

Strong mandate for fast-track judicial process for cases of sexual violence

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[ हिंदी ] Gender-sensitive judiciary and police administration, stronger laws, faster legal process to give judgement within six months, ...

Smoking Is A Big Health Risk For Women

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It is said that women who are addicted to cigarettes and other tobacco products are at increased health risks by reason of their biology....

Growing support to indefinite fast for farmers and labourers on Day IV

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[ हिंदी ] The indefinite fast and demonstration in support of demands of farmers-labourers organized by Socialist Party jointly with Nati...

Indefinite fast: Demand to raise minimum wage to Rs 440 a day for farmers, labourers

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Photo credit: Rajeev Yadav [ हिंदी ] Noted social activist and Magsaysay Awardee Dr Sandeep Pandey began an indefinite fast in support ...

Rejoice For Giving Birth And Bringing Life To This Earth

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A consultation, to draft a policy to correct the trend of declining sex ratio for the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was organized by Acti...

TB Alliance to Develop Pediatric TB Drugs With Support From UNITAID

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Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading killer of children, particularly in resource-poor settings, though the true size of the problem is unknown...

Change The Old Order—Stop These Barbaric Acts

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Even as the Delhi gang rape victim—a  23-year-old paramedical student--who was gang raped, tortured and thrown out from inside a moving ...

Union model leads to successful TB-HIV collaborative care

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In 2004, when the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease ( The Union ) launched the Programme of Integrated HIV Care ...

Rewind 2012: Global Stop-TB eForum

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The Global Stop-TB eForum  facilitated by Citizen News Service - CNS looked back at its archives to enlist key issues raised related to t...

Down With Formula Milk And Tobacco For A Healthy World!

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During the last three decades, the World Health Assembly (WHA) agreed upon two interventions, which can have far reaching and lasting imp...

People Are Leading Longer But Sicker Lives

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This is one of the main findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) - a collaborative project conducted by the Instit...

Children Need To Be Nurtured Naturally, Not Artificially

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Globally, nearly 7 million children under the age of 5 years die every year--two thirds of them before celebrating even their first birth...

Come Join The Fight...

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….to protect every feeding mother and her infant from man-made milk as babies need only the Mom-made one. This was the theme of the 1st...

ANALYSIS: Can Uganda achieve zero new HIV infections and AIDS deaths by 2015?

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"Getting to zero:  Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths," is the theme for World AIDS Days betw...

CNS at 43rd Union World Conference on Lung Health

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To increase issue-focussed reporting on tuberculosis, HIV and lung health in lead up to, during and post 43rd Union World Conference on Lun...

Myth of Gujarat’s Economic Performance under Modi

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A lot has been bloated about Gujarat’s outstanding economic performance during Narendra Modi’s Chief Minister-ship. Many educated people ...

Operational strategy to stop TB despite tight purse strings

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As the rich countries are still recovering from the economic depression, health financing is surely one of the casualties. Everyone rightly...

Early Diagnosis Is Key To Controlling MDR-TB

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Dr Manoon Leechawengwong, is the chairman of the Drug Resistant TB Research Fund at Thailand's Siriraj Foundation and is also the Im...

Strengthening Existing Health Systems To Manage TB

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An unregulated and greedy private sector and an inefficient and under- funded public sector in India generously allows its patients to ch...

Meeting the targets: Are we doing better in HIV than in TB?

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Well, perhaps yes. While talking to Citizen News Service - CNS at the 43rd Union World Conference on Lung Health  in Kuala Lumpur Mark Ha...