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As part of the ongoing 2by4 communications and advocacy campaign the first mini-series of e-consultation and key informant interviews is...

Have your say in the online consultation and key informant interviews in lead up to the World TB Day, 24th March 2013. 'Two by Four: ...

[ Images ] [ हिंदी ] About thousand villagers in Reusa Block, Sitapur, staged a Jal Satyagrah by getting down into the waters of river S...

So said Freddy Svane, Ambassador of Denmark in an interview given exclusively to Citizen News Service - CNS , during his recent visit to ...

Narmada Bachao Andolan has been using Jal Satyagrah since 1993 as a means of protest wherein people facing submergence stay put in wais...

The recently released fourth annual edition of the financing series of the Institute of Health and Metric Evaluation (IHME), ‘ Financing...

It was a Valentine’s Day celebration with a difference. On 14th February, 2013, a vibrant crowd of Lucknowites marched from Begum Hazrat ...

This is an appeal from a person in her own words who urgently needs support for her healthcare needs. She is a brave woman who is a livin...

According to an estimate, one in three women on the planet is likely to be raped or beaten in her lifetime. So on 14 February 2013, the 1...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most under-reported and under-rated chronic disease for children across the world. Although childhood TB ...

Civil society organizations came together in Hyderabad today to enlist gaps in tuberculosis (TB) control programme in Indian state of And...

For a disease as old of tuberculosis (TB) how come despite all the scientific research and development (R and D) we still have about a ce...

Photo credit: CNS - Seoul 2012 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least one-third of all cancer cases are preventable...

[ हिंदी ] "We, as representatives of women’s organizations, civil society groups, and activists committed to women’s rights, convey ou...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...