Is it Asthma or COPD?

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist Both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are chronic diseases involving airflow obstructi...

Raising taxes to reduce tobacco use

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Chhatra Karki, CNS Correspondent, Nepal                                   Image credit: WHO This year’s World No Tobacco Day was major...

Management of respiratory diseases beyond drugs: Pulmonary Rehabilitation

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist A very interesting and informative panel discussion on Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) of patients of respirato...

Oxygen therapy is like a prescription drug: Use it rationally

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist An optimum amount of oxygen is essential for the functioning and survival of all body tissues and even a few ...

Tackle hepatitis C to save people living with HIV

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist The WHO recognizes that the ‘silent epidemic’ of viral hepatitis affects a large part of the world’s populati...

Let us Give Serious Thought To E-cigarettes

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Diana Wangari, CNS Correspomdent, Kenya (First published in The Star , Kenya)   When I was younger, back in those days when my biggest ...

Unhealthy diets are threatening global health

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist An estimated 65% of the world’s population lives in countries where obesity leads to more deaths than und...

Assessing Nigeria’s anti-tobacco campaign

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Okeoghene Oghenekaro, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria  (First published in News Agency of Nigeria )   The World Health Organisation (WHO) esti...

Apply by 30 June for The Union and Otsuka awards

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Photo credit: Jens Jeske The deadline is approaching for the annual Union awards for exceptional contributions to tuberculosis control ...

'Serving the larger good by participating in anti-HIV gel study'

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Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant, CNS One of the most important voices to listen to, and learn from, in a clinical research study are th...

Communities are equal partners in clinical research

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Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant, CNS PIMAN "Community engagement starts before a research trial begins and continues alongside ...

Call to strengthen clinical research trial management in South-East Asia

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Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant, CNS RIHES Laboratory, CMU Since South-East Asian nations share a significant burden of major health...

'Community Advisory Board is a bridge between researchers and community'

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Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant, CNS Engaging communities genuinely in scientific research and keeping them updated is of paramount impo...

Research study to test anti-HIV gel for gay men and transgenders commences in Chiang Mai

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Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant, CNS Dr Suwat Chariyalertsak, RIHES at PIMAN Centre Overall new HIV infection rates have dipped by 2...

Patriarchy is the root cause of gender injustice

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist (Based on an interview given to CNS by Ivy Josiah , Executive Director, Women’s Aid Organization, Malaysia, d...

Follow the money: World No Tobacco Day 2014

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Alice Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland In the effort to curb the over half a million deaths due to second hand smoking which took pla...

Run Away From Tobacco -- Experts Caution Diabetes Patients

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Eranga Isaac, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria As the world marked the World No Tobacco Day 2014, experts cautioned sufferers of diabetes to d...

Despite progress, long way remains for gender justice

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist Despite women’s rights to economic, social and cultural equality, poverty and discrimination still remains t...

Tobacco: A Plant, A Smoke or a Stroke of Death?

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Source: www.premiumtimesng.com Timothy Bamidele, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria Tobacco is a plant within the genus Nicotiana of the Solan...

Malawi reluctant towards anti-smoking campaign

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WHO picture on tobacco tax Owen Nyaka, CNS Correspondent, Malawi While the World Health Organisation (WHO) is championing the anti-smok...

It is easier to stay out than to get out

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Carolyn Kavita Tauro, CNS Correspondent It was World No Tobacco Day on the 31st of May… So what? We, the non-tobacco consumers, carried ...

Connecting the dots: Women, climate change and natural resources

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist There is a growing struggle in communities of the Asia Pacific region for environmental justice. This is true...

Building feminist movements to stimulate change

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist Grassroots women of the Asia Pacific region have borne the brunt of the unrelenting global desire for incr...

Gender Justice to be at the heart of development justice

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist The Asia and the Pacific region contains some of the world’s most powerful economies and the 21st Century is ...

2nd APFF 2014: Creating Waves, Fostering Movements

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist The 2nd Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (2nd APFF 2014), organized by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and D...

Pak tobacco tax reforms could help half million quit, up taxes by Rs 27.2 billion

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[ Report is online here ] A potentially path-breaking report shows that the introduction of a uniform specific tax accounting for 70% of P...

Growing call for strengthening tobacco control in Uganda

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Joseph Elunya, CNS Correspondent, Uganda [First published in The Continent Observer , Uganda] Activists in Uganda are calling for incre...

Reduce Tobacco Consumption, Save Lives

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist With nearly 35% of India’s adult population (age 15+) consuming some form of tobacco, there are around 275 ...

Connecting the dots: Tobacco use, diabetes and tuberculosis

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Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist Tobacco related illness kills nearly 6 million people each year, accounting for 1 in 10 of all deaths globa...

A Tumour In The Spine

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Chhatra Karki, CNS Correspondent, Nepal Photo credit: CNS A spinal tumour is a cancerous (malignant) or noncancerous (benign) growth w...

PICTS accelerating new TB case finding in Myanmar

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Lwin Lwin Thant, CNS Correspondent, Myanmar Photo credit: Lwin Lwin Thant More than nine million people around the world become ill w...

World Asthma Day: Expert recommends tags for asthma patients

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Okeoghene Oghenekaro, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria   (First Published in News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in May 2014)  Photo credit: CNS ...

Asthma Patients in Uganda Resort to Herbs Over High Cost of Treatment

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Joseph Elunya, CNS Correspondent, Uganda  (First published in The Continent Observer , on 14 May 2014) Asthma patients, in Uganda, are ...