Give child pneumonia the attention it deserves

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Diana E Wangari, CNS Special Correspondent When most people are asked about lung health and infectious diseases, the first condition that ...

Preparing frontline health workers for community-led change

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Nenet L Ortega, CNS Special Correspondent Photo credit: Nenet L Ortega/CNS If care for people affected by TB is going to be truly pat...

Tuberculosis does not recognize borders

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS It is time indeed high time to recognize that globally we have today a 1 billion mobile populat...

Alarm rings to contain drug-resistant TB

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Retrograde policies and practices and critical gaps in care for multidrug-resistant tuberculosi...

Embarrassment of riches in HIV prevention response?

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Dr Mitchell Warren, AVAC "There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inac...

TB-Diabetes: the looming co-epidemic

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Carolyn Kavita Tauro, CNS Special Correspondent Dr A Harries (L), Dr A Kapur (R) On the opening day of the 45th Union World Conference...

TB-Diabetes: "An issue relevant all over"

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Babs Verblackt, CNS Special Correspondent The international action against the looming co-epidemic of diabetes and TB should speed up, avo...

Meaningful community participation to end TB

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Nenet L Ortega, CNS Special Correspondent Photo credit: Nenet Ortega/CNS The theme for this year’s  45th Union World Conference on Lun...

Regular HIV prevention counselling reduces risk of infection

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Dr Wipas Wimonsate at HIVR4P "Foundation of HIV prevention is infact HIV testing" said Dr Anthony Fauci of National Institute...

Call to action to halt the looming TB-diabetes co-epidemic

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Babs Verblackt, CNS Special Correspondent Dr Anthony Harries, The Union (L), Dr Anil Kapur, WDF (R) It is time to act and no time to ...

Tackling the Challenges of TB-Diabetes co-infection

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Eranga Isaac, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria TB is an infectious disease caused by the Mycobacterium TB. While it typically affects the lun...

Bold and audacious steps needed for TB control

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Diana E Wangari, CNS Special Correspondent Photo credit: Diana Wangari/CNS When the Indian Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr. H...

WHO launches new guidelines on management of latent TB infection

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued guidelines on testing, treat...

No single HIV prevention method can end AIDS: Combination prevention is key

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As HIV prevention needs and contexts vary, it is important to expand the range of effective prevention options that people can use. Archbis...

Health Experts Call For International Action Against Diabetes And TB

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Owen Nyaka, CNS Correspondent, Malawi   The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and the World Diabete...

Nepal gearing to protect public health from tobacco industry interference

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There is a direct and irreconcilable conflict of interest between tobacco industry and public health policy. This conflict of interest is a...

No longer business as usual: Out of the box solutions needed to end TB

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS  In May 2014, the World Health Assembly approved the WHO's new post-2015 global TB strateg...

VIP visits proving catastrophic for this slum

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Dr Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Awardee and CNS Columnist [ Video of burning slum ] Some 160 families live in a slum opposite the ‘ Bhavishy...

Cerebral Abscess can damage Brain Functions

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Chhatra Karki, CNS Correspondent, Nepal Are you suffering from an ear-abscess? Be careful if you have not undergone treatment for a long...

The torment of common citizens

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Dr Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Awardee and CNS Columnist Shanti devi is a stone cutter belonging to scheduled caste community. She lives in ...

Transforming Women’s Lives Through Radio and TV

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Swapna Majumdar, CNS Special Correspondent Photo Credit: Swapna Majumdar In 2008, in De Mugogo, an impoverished village in the Democra...

Towards tobacco control…Better Late Than Never

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Photo Credit: Carolyn Kavita Carolyn Kavita Tauro, CNS Correspondent, India For those who have been fighting for tobacco control, Wedn...

Diabetes And TB: Double Trouble

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Chhatra Karki, CNS Correspondent, Nepal TB has established its strong foothold as an epidemic, especially in the low and middle income co...

WHO cautions: "Do not let fox guard chickens"

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[ Audio podcast ] This the first time ever when global tobacco treaty negotiations are taking place in Russian Federation. While sharing an...

Strong tobacco taxation policy adopted despite industry interference

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Allies of tobacco industry had tried to persuade government delegations before the global tobacco treaty negotiations began in Moscow earli...

Tuberculosis and Diabetes -Lessons From The Past

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Alice Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland As the world mobilizes for the world’s largest global conference on lung health issues in Barc...

Programmatic Management of MDR-TB by Private Health Sector in the Philippines

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Nenet Ortega, CNS Correspondent, Philippines Several Asian countries, including Philippines, come in the bracket of 22 high TB burden coun...

Will diabetes add the last straw on the burdened back of TB?

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS According to a new Series about TB and diabetes, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinol...

Do doctors engage patients? Consumers central to evidence-informed healthcare

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Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant, CNS Dr Kay Dickersin, Director US Cochrane Center Who decides the questions health scientists resea...

Evidence shows we can prevent obesity in children: E Waters, Anne Anderson Awardee 2014

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Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant, CNS Prof Elizabeth Waters Anne Anderson Awardee 2014 Researchers have demonstrated that childhood ...

Humid houses pose health hazards

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Babs Verblackt, CNS Correspondent Indoor air quality concerns more than just the fumes and smoke in the house. Dampness and mould pose h...

Modi's economic policy at loggerheads with Gandhi's vision

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Dr Rahul Pandey and Dr Sandeep Pandey, CNS Columnist Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary is an opportune time to assess Prime Minister (PM...

Those who 'own little, live on little' carry highest burden of climate change

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Photo credit: Alina Saba Shobha Shukla, CNS Columnist Climate change seems to be the new food for thought for world leaders to chew u...