Indian parliamentarian doubts if tobacco kills! Do not reinvent the wheel

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Indian parliamentarian who is chairing the committee which told the government not to implement stronger pictorial graphic health warnings ...

Appeal to unite to form a pro-people political front

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An appeal has been issued by many citizens from across the country calling upon sincere and socially-conscious pro-people activists to un...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Islawati

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Photo credit: Rahul D/ CNS [ CNS image library ] 42 years old Islawati is the mother of fi...

Why is counseling important in TB treatment?

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Dr Carolyn Kavita Tauro, CNS Correspondent, India Rohani (name changed) was one of those quieter female TB patients. But they almost all...

TB in pregnant women

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Isaac Eranga, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria There were an estimated 3.3 million new cases of TB and an estimated 510 000 TB deaths among w...

Nepalese women with TB face unique challenges

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Chhatra Karki, CNS Correspondent, Nepal TB victimized Pabitra Tamang (name changed), a resident of a village in Dhading, Jawang, in the ...

Need for continued conversations on TB

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Diana Wangari, CNS Correspondent, Kenya (First published in The Star , Kenya)  On March 24 we marked World TB Day and, as we have come to...

Vietnam's major regional thrust for a malaria-free Asia Pacific by 2030

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Vietnam signals greater regional leadership in malaria elimination by hosting health officials and experts to discuss challenges to achie...

Tuberculosis: A rocky road for women’s health

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Owen Nyaka, CNS Correspondent, Malawi “TB needs to be taken seriously as a women’s health issue because it kills more than half a millio...

What's in a name? Tobacco in any form is deadly!

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service (CNS) Photo credit CNS: citizen-news.org Just as a rose would smell as sweet if called by anot...

Nepal leading tobacco control in South Asia: Will it spiral domino effect on other nations?

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South Asian region has very high levels of tobacco use, and thus not surprisingly, rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and other toba...

Progress made but work remains on firewalling health policy from tobacco industry

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service (CNS) Cloe Franko, NATT/ Corporate Accountability International Considerable progress has been ma...

Hold tobacco industry liable: Turn the cost-benefit ratio upside down

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS WCTOH session on FCTC Art.19: Neil Collishaw and Cloe Franko Photo credit: CNS: citizen-news...

Where there is a will there is a way: Teeja Devi

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Photo credit: Rahul D/ CNS [ CNS image library ] 55 years old Teeja Devi was born in villag...

Women with TB have the right to live too

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Clarity Sibanda, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe Twenty years have passed since the signing of the Beijing Declaration on women but issues s...

Gender dimension of TB: Voices from the field

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS      TB is the third leading cause of death for women worldwide, with women accounting for 3.3 m...

From adversity to prosperity

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Photo credit: Rahul D/ CNS [ CNS image library ] It is not uncommon to hear about tales of m...

TB, the silent killer of women

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Pretty Chavango, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe TB, an airborne infectious disease, is the third leading cause of death in women worldwide. ...

When will the good times (achhe din) come for women in India?

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS While stone statues of the female form (Saraswati, Lakshmi, Durga/Kali) are worshipped in temp...

More lung cancer awareness among women needed

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Babs Verblackt, CNS Special Correspondent, Belgium While cancer in women often gets associated with breast cancer, there is an equal threa...

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. ...