Effective HIV/AIDS Responses Are Built On Data and Humanity

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Sumita Thapar - CNS “As religious leaders we tend to believe we have a direct line to God, we tend to think we know it all. We don’t. We...

Living with HIV, but dying of co-infections

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Bobby Ramakant – CNS HIV co-infections were in the spotlight at a few sessions on the second day of ICAAP. Neglecting infections with he...

Scientific Research for an AIDS ‘cure’ and HIV Prevention and Treatment for Key Populations

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Ishdeep Kohli - CNS In the race for a cure for HIV, we have the Berlin Patient, the Mississippi Baby, the Visconti Cohort - 14 patients ...

Glimpses of the HIV picture in the PICTS

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Shobha Shukla – CNS Beginning with the Lord’s Prayer, HE Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, President of Fiji began the ‘Pacific Islands Voyage’ w...

Walk the Talk: Towards an AIDS-free generation

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Photo credit: Sumita Thapar - CNS Sumita Thapar - CNS Leaders from different walks of life – politics, bureaucracy, private sector, ga...

What did we miss while treating HIV?

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Dr BB Rewari, NACO Bobby Ramakant - CNS Expanding access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and HIV care services have helped people livi...

Community-based VCT demanded

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Citizen News Service - CNS Civil society networks, United Nations agencies and other partners in Asia and the Pacific are urging a rapid...

Giving drug users a path

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Sumita Thapar - CNS Oral substitution therapy (OST) saves lives, improves quality of life, and helps people who use drugs to lead functi...

Communities are combatting the Alternative Three Zeroes: Zero Funding, Zero Political Will, and Zero Legal Reform

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Ishdeep Kohli - CNS In line with the UNAIDS campaign to achieve the 'Three Zeroes' -- Zero new infections, Zero new deaths and Z...

Domestic AIDS funding has increased since the 10th ICAAP: President ASAP

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Bobby Ramakant - CNS “One of the positive developments since the 10th ICAAP (held in Busan, South Korea in 2011) is that national govern...

CNS and Inis Communication managed 11th ICAAP offiical conference newsletter

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11th ICAAP official daily conference newspaper (English and Thai: November 2013): During the 11th International Congress on AIDS in Asia ...

Intellectual property and decriminalization: Don't have to wait for laws to be changed

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Anand Grover is a lawyer from India who is known for his legal activism in Indian law relating to HIV. He is a co-founder member of the L...

Yearning youths of ICAAP

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Le Nguyen - CNS A female Interpol officer–wannabe and a former male sex worker. They hug and admire each other for their sharing and the...

Complex barriers to tackling HIV transmission among MSM

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Craig Knowles and Ani Lamont Asia and the Pacific faces enormous challenges if it is to arrest rapidly rising  rates of HIV infection am...

New infections outstrip the region's HIV responses

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Swapna Majumdar - CNS Despite a 26% overall reduction in new HIV infections in Asia and the Pacific since 2001, the epidemic still outpace...

"My husband is HIV-positive, and I live with him. Why not?"

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Le Nguyen - CNS Halong Bay, one of Vietnam's UNESCO-recognized Natural Heritage, located in northern Quang Ninh province, about 120 km...

Vietnam urges more methadone treatment for people who use drugs

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 Le Nguyen - CNS Statistics by the HIV/AIDS Prevention Department of the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Vietnam shows that currently there ar...

Moving Towards the Triple Zero Goal

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Swapna Majumdar – CNS "Why wouldn't you want to share my chocolate?" What would be your answer if a young five year old gi...

MDR-TB: a global challenge

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Chhatra Karki, Nepal (First published in Kapan Online , Kathmandu, Nepal on 13 November 2013) It is believed that  tuberculosis (TB) is...

Community volunteers making a difference in addressing TB and HIV

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Lwin Lwin Thant, Myanmar Had it not been for community volunteers, a person co-infected with TB and HIV would not have been able to get ...

HIV, drug-resistant TB, Hepatitis B Virus: Story of struggle and hope

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Lwin Lwin Thant, Myanmar   [Lwin Lwin interviewed a person living with HIV, drug-resistant TB and Hepatitis B Virus in Myanmar. She is p...

Pneumonia: a disease for all ages

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World Pneumonia Day is observed on 12 November every year since 2009 to bring awareness to this leading killer of children below 5 years ...

Who gets to the finish line first?

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Carolyn Kavita Tauro, India It was a casual sit-in with some of my friends back home when one of them who is a mother of a three-year ol...

Multi-Drug Resistant-Tuberculosis (TB) - A Global Challenge

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Alice Tembe, Swaziland It is common labour practice that sick leave is fourteen days with full pay, followed by another fourteen days of...

Smoke, smoke everywhere, not a puff to breathe

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The air around us has been riddled with so much of dirt that it is increasingly becoming unfit for consumption. And yet we cannot survive i...

Innovation is crucial in fight against AIDS

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India has the world's third-largest population of people living with HIV (PLHIV) - 2.4 million. However, it has been able to make sig...

Falling Walls advance innovation, sustainability and social impact

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A young scientist was awarded the third prize at Falling Walls Labs 2013 for her research aimed to reduce mortality and complication rate ...

WHO says 450,000 people are resistant to TB drugs globally

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Okeoghene Oghenekaro, Nigeria  (First published in News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on 30th October 2013)  The 2013 WHO Global Tuberculos...

US $48 Million To Help The Fight Against Tuberculosis

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At the close of the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health , held in Paris, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Dis...

Orchids Bloom: Best practices on harm reduction shared

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L-R: Dr Swarup Sarkar, Dr Santhosh Matthew,  Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Lov Verma,  Dr M Suresh, Dr Sundararaman, Taufik Bakkali Sumita Tha...

New diagnostic tools help Cambodia tackle MDR-TB

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Shobha Shukla - CNS (Based on an exclusive interview given to CNS by Dr Mao Tan Eang, NTP Manager, Cambodia, during the 44th Union World...

Story of struggle of MDR-TB survivor

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Shobha Shukla - CNS (As told by her to CNS during the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health held in Paris) My name is Xolelwa Jon...

A call for urgent regulation of e-cigarettes

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The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) issued a position statement at the 44th Union World Conference...