Keep people before profit: Comments on the draft National Health Policy 2015

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[ Download ] The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, is seeking comments and feedback on the draft National Health...

Medicines Patent Pool brings hope for kids living With HIV

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Citizen News Service - CNS The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), an organization founded by UNITAID, and backed by the United Nations,  signe...

Report: Christian response to AIDS, homophobia and violence against women

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[ Download report ] A two-days consultation on " Christian response to AIDS, Homophobia and the Violence against Women " was ...

Lung cancer and smoking are best friends

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John Yengkhom, CNS Correspondent, Nagaland A cancer is a growth in the body, which becomes large with time due to various reasons. It pa...

Increasing lung cancer cases in women ring alarm bells

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Diana Wangari, CNS Special Correspondent, Kenya (First published in The Star , Kenya)  I remember one time when my grandmother paid us a ...

TB Alliance advances next-generation TB drug candidate into clinical testing

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS CNS Image Library (March 2013) The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development ( TB Alliance )...

Is too much health research - unnecessary, unethical, unscientific, wasteful?

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Too much health and medical research may be unnecessary, unethical, unscientific, and wasteful, warns a new global network, ' Evidence-...

Patients struggle to access quality diabetes care

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Owen Nyaka, CNS Correspondent, Malawi Diabetes in Malawi seems to be nobody’s baby. Speaking from personal experience, Mariam Ladi, a di...

A suitable prescription for an unfit nation

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Dr Anoop Misra, Chairman of Fortis C-DOC Hospital   (First published in the LiveMint News ) “Doctor, I cannot exercise because of cold/h...

Lung cancer: Difficult to diagnose, difficult to treat, easy to prevent

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Dr Surya Kant, KGMU Just a few days before World Cancer Day this year, an acquaintance of...

Childhood pneumonia - the forgotten killer

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Diana Wangari, CNS Special Correspondent,  Kenya (First published in The Star , Kenya) If you were asked what were the leading infectious...

Deworm to not lose gains made on child health and nutrition

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Dr Raghav Gattani, CNS Medical Correspondent National Deworming Day is on 10th February 2015 Government of India is observing Nation...

Lung cancer - deadly and yet preventable

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Chhatra Karki, CNS Correspondent, Nepal Since the last decade, the number of lung cancer patients has been rapidly increasing in Nepal. ...

Lung cancer - the bane of smokers

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Pretty Chavango , CNS Correspondent,  Zimbabwe  Elizabeth (R):lung cancer victim:   Photo credit: ECCT Millions of people from all ov...

Better to prevent rather than treat lung cancer

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - C NS  Every 30 seconds, someone, somewhere in the world dies of lung cancer. According to the World...

Why prefer AAP over BJP and Congress?

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Dr Sandeep Pandey and Dr Rahul Pandey , CNS Columnists For the first time since Narendra Modi government has come to power in the centre ...

Tobacco smoking ruining lives: Lung cancer rates alarming

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Clarity Sibanda , CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe Many engage in smoking just for the fun of it and unfortunately get caught in the nicotine...

Government warns churches over HIV cure claims

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Garikai Chaunza, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe (First published in New Zimbabwe ) The government has warned churches led by so-called prop...

Biting the hands that feed all?

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CNS Image Library/2015 Amidst deafening echoes of promised good times by Narendra Modi led government, one of the seldom heard voices i...

Stepping up access to healthcare

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Pretty Chavango, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe CNS Image Library/2013 Health has been recognized as central to human development as both...

New HIV treatment regimen introduced in Zimbabwe

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Garikai Chaunza, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe (First published in New Zimbabwe )  The government of Zimbabwe is, with effect from January...

Access to health services for everyone, everywhere!

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Babs Verblackt, CNS Special Correspondent, Belgium Achieving access to health services for all citizens remains challenging for many coun...

Implementing universal health coverage in Nigeria

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Isaac Eranga, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria Universal health coverage (UHC) means that every person, everywhere, has access to quality heal...

The possibility of universal health coverage

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Alice Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland CNS image library/2013 The Government of the Kingdom of Swaziland, through its Ministry of...

Integrated programme on HIV/TB in Nepal

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CNS image library/2010 Chhatra Karki, CNS Correspondent, Nepal There was no integrated government programme for people living with HIV...

HIV has claimed 500,000 lives, government official

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Garikai Chaunza, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe (First published in New Zimbabwe )  At least half a million Zimbabweans have died of HIV/A...

Home demolition victims denied ARVs

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Garikai Chaunza, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe   (First published in New Zimbabwe ) Victims of Epworth housing demolitions are being deni...

When will health-for-all become a reality in UP?

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Citizen News Service - CNS [ Hindi ] Although health-for-all has been the mission of government of India as well since years, a large pa...

Stop water privatisation and strengthen public water supply

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Dr Sandeep Pandey Photo credit: Jittima J/CNS A new report by Corporate Accountability International uncovers how the World Bank us...

Human Rights Day: What is wrong with a rights-based approach to TB care?

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS panel discussion on TB & Human rights Photo credit: S Shukla/ CNS Well nothing! In fac...

Thalassaemia on the blind spot? Call to improve prevention, treatment and care

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Dr Michael Angastiniotis (CNS image library) "It is not only about preventing new bir...

Breaking taboos, reaping dividends

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Swapna Majumdar, CNS Special Correspondent Photo credit: CNS Image Library Consider these statistics: Globally, 370,000 million childr...

'Studies underway for possible ebola treatment option '

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Diana Wangari, Special Correspondent, Kenya (First published in The Star News , Kenya) Recently, on a flight in Europe, I was seated next...