Children and women are at risk of heart disease too: Dr Rishi Sethi

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World Heart Day, 29 September Dr Rishi Sethi Senior Cardiologist This year’s World Heart Day (29 September) theme focusses on a life...

Changing Notions of Masculinity, Preventing Violence Against Women

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Swapna Majumdar - CNS In Bangladesh, a man forced into marriage vents his frustration by beating his wife when she disobeys him. In Camb...

Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena blasts tobacco industry for attempting to bribe

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  Manjari Peiris, Sri Lanka  (First published in The Asian Tribune , Sri Lanka on 26 September 2013)   The Minister of Health Sri Lanka, ...

Tobacco Industries challenge government policies

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Chhatra Karki, Nepal (First published in Kapan Online , Nepal on 26 September 2013)  The tobacco producers across the world have often...

It is time to completely end the game of tobacco

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Mukta Srivastava - CNS The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Health Related Information D...

Report: Advocacy Training Workshop on WHO FCTC Article 5.3

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[ Read/ download full report ] The report of the day-long Advocacy Training Workshop on WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)...

Tobacco industry interference in controlling tobacco consumption

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A nineteenth-century, tin box of  Kyriazi Frères brand, Egyptian cigarettes Dr. Essam Elmoghazy, Egypt  The tobacco epidemic is one of...

Did they trick us into smoking?

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Carolyn Kavita Tauro - CNS Most smokers would reply that no one tricked them into smoking. It was and has always been their sole decisio...

APACT Urges Indonesia To Ratify FCTC And Shun The Tobacco Industry

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Shobha Shukla - CNS The 2013 Asia Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco (APACT) Conference was held in August, 2013 in Chiba, ...

Deserted by family, he seeks solace in PMDT staffers…….

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Shobha Shukla - CNS Anirban Mukherjee is from Kolkata. An only child, he is 32 years old and educated till Class 10. No one else, except...

Tobacco industry interests are in conflict with public health

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Shobha Shukla - CNS  The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the world’s first global public health and corporate acco...

Youth is the cornerstone for tobacco control activities

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Mukta Srivastava - CNS  The ‘International Conference on Public Health Priorities in the 21st Century: The Endgame for Tobacco’, jointly...

When whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts

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Bobby Ramakant - CNS [ Images ] Earlier this year we at CNS had visited many biosafety level (BSL) III laboratories in India where one o...

The Last Lesson

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Mrs Bimla Misra On 12th September 2013, former Principal of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Mrs Bimla Misra (84 years) bid farewell t...

Integrated TB and HIV care in Myanmar gives hope

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Bobby Ramakant - CNS [ Images ] There is no doubt that tuberculosis (TB) and HIV care should be integrated at different levels, particula...

Communal Polarization

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[ हिंदी ] Just when it appeared that Samajwadi Party government had handled the 84 Kosi Parikrama incident quite well and had emerged as a ...

Overcoming obstacles in managing TB and HIV infections

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Okeoghene Oghenekaro, Nigeria  (First published in National Mirror , Nigeria on 3 September 2013) The incidence of tuberculosis and HIV...

Largest-ever push to diagnose tuberculosis within two hours

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Bobby Ramakant - CNS  [ Images ] Diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) and also getting to know with accuracy about resistance to one of the two...

Surgical advancements to salvage the diabetic foot

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Shobha Shukla - CNS  Some years ago, 30 years old Tanveer (name changed), a noted tabla percussionist, sustained a fall that lead to a s...

HIV patients vulnerable to TB

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Chhatra Karki, Nepal (First published in Kapan, Nepal ) Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV co-infection is now emerging as a big threat in the h...

Persistent low grade fever and cough….

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Shobha Shukla - CNS 40 years old Rukmini lives close to the Civil Hospital of BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad. She used to sell fruits to...

Two diseases, one patient…

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Carolyn Kavita Tauro, India Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) – can we continue to tackle these separately? Accor...

Advocacy Training Workshop on WHO FCTC Article 5.3

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A day-long Advocacy Training Workshop on WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 5.3 will be held in Lucknow, India, on...

When he vomited blood one day...

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Photo credit: CNS, January 2010 Shobha Shukla - CNS [ Hindi ] 48 years old Deepak, was leading a happy normal life with his wife and 3...

Are Healthcare workers Tuberculosis Proof?

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Alice Tembe, Swaziland ‘I had to choose between being deaf and being dead’, this is what Dalene von Delft, a Medical Doctor from Stellen...

Living with HIV and infected with TB: The Double Struggle

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Diana Esther Wangari - CNS Lying in bed at Kenyatta National hospital, Joshua Lule stared at the ceiling lost in thought. The hospital h...

Combating TB-HIV Co-infection

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Shobha Shukla - CNS Meena (name changed), a 35 years old mother of 3, comes from a village in district Gonda  of Uttar Pradesh, India. S...

Rainy season: Curse for diabetic foot

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( First published in THE HINDUSTAN TIMES on Tuesday, 6th August 2013 ) Diabetes has proved itself a silent killer disease. Today in the w...

Create smoke-free zones, Government urged

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Paidamoyo Chipunza, Zimbabwe  (First published in The Herald , Zimbabwe on 8 August 2013): GOVERNMENT has been urged to create 100 perce...

Making air free from diseases

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Okeoghene Oghenekaro, Nigeria  (First published in News Agency of Nigeria , on 6 August 2013): Bidemi, a widowed petty trader, feels he...

Hiroshima Day: Youth vote for peace and low-carbon, no nuclear energy

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Bobby Ramakant - CNS [ Online poster image gallery ] [ हिन्दी ] Over a hundred poster exhibits made on " Lessons From Japan " t...

Communal Violence: Who is to be blamed?

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Dr Ram Puniyani A friend with dogged determination to show that the BJP is a lesser culprit of communal violence and that Congress is th...

The Union joins the WHO’s TBTEAM network to strengthen country capacity in the fight against TB

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The International Management Development Programme (IMDP) of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) ) ...