New insights into treatment and prevention of HIV

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS The 8th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention , that was recently held in...

Early TB testing is vital to saving lives

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Pretty Chavango, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe Photo credit: CNS: citizen-news.org According to the WHO Global Tuberculosis report 2014,...

Detecting anti-TB drug resistance upfront is a public health imperative

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Lwin Lwin Thant, CNS Correspondent, Myanmar Photo credit: CNS: citizen-news.org TB is a curable disease, but only when treated with co...

Call to register: Webinar for media - Lung health beyond 2015

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[ Webinar recording ] We welcome you to register for an exclusive media webinar, on: Lung health beyond 2015 , in the wake of intergovern...

Xpert MTB/RIF: Will it help end TB ?

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Dr Richa Sharma, CNS Correspondent, India Photo credit: CNS: citizen-news.org TB continues to scar the face of public health even toda...

Nigeria adopts new strategy to end spread of TB

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Humphery Chikezie, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria Photo credit: CNS: citizen-news.org Nigeria is ranked third among the 22 high TB burden ...

The elusive goal of education for all

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Dr Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Awardee and CNS Columnist Image credit:CNS:citizen-news.org Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen in their book ...

Early detection of MDR-TB is important

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Catherine Mwauyakufa, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe Photo credit: CNS In Zimbabwe, cases of multi drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) have report...

Early diagnosis of drug resistance is crucial to ending TB

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Image credit: CNS: citizen-news.org  Despite being treatable, TB remains a major global pu...

Sending them home to die: Tuberculosis in the mines

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Photo credit: CNS Alice Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland “You could easily share a room with sixteen other mine workers, if one dev...

Drug Resistant TB: Healthcare delayed is healthcare denied

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Alice Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland Photo credit: CNS   Tuberculosis (TB), has been around for centuries, but drug resistant TB ...

Warmongering?

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Dr Sandeep Pandey and Bobby Ramakant, CNS Photo credit: CNS: citizen-news.org On June 4, 2015, twenty Indian soldiers of 6 Dogra Regi...

Wrong development priority in spite of Socio-Economic Census and National Sample Survey findings

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Dr Rahul Pandey, CNS Columnist Graph credit: Dr Rahul Pandey Partial results of two important official surveys were released recently....

Long walk to justice: Transgender voices from across India

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service (CNS)   Photo credit: Shobha/ CNS [ CNS images ] I had been there at the 1st National Hijra Habba...

Join the crusade: Big push for transgender and hijra welfare

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service (CNS) Photo credit: Shobha/ CNS [ CNS images ] It was indeed a humbling experience for me to be pa...

'Pehchan' has given transgender people a new 'Pehchan' (Identity)...

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service (CNS) Priya, Transgender leader Photo credit: Shobha/CNS So said Priya when I met her at the com...

Why is tobacco still an issue ?

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Diana Wangari, CNS Correspondent, Kenya   (First published in The Star , Kenya)  I must confess, there are health concerns that amaze m...

Call to register: Webinar for media - Is detecting drug resistance at the time of TB diagnosis important?

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[ Webinar recording ] We welcome you to register for an exclusive media webinar in wake of largest-study published recently to guide us...

"A woman of substance": Kalawati

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Photo credit: Rahul/ CNS [ CNS Images ] Kalawati comes from a family of small farmers. Her...

Parliamentarians on 'world we want beyond 2015': Sexual and reproductive health and rights in focus

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS The Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs are a new, universal set of 17 proposed goals, with...

Periyar is no Ambedkar

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Dr Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Awardee and CNS Columnist   The Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani coerced the IIT Madras De...

Call for applications for CNS Young Correspondents Programme

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Citizen News Service (CNS) is pleased to announce that it is currently accepting applications for CNS Young Correspondents Programme . C...

Turning tables: Growing support against corporate capture of climate policy-making

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In the final days of the Bonn Climate Change Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Corporate ...

People are living longer but sicker and unhealthier lives

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Photo credit: CNS: citizen-news.org So says a report published recently in the Lancet by an ...

"Be the change you want to see in the world": Pushpa Devi

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS Photo credit: Rahul/CNS [ CNS images ] Pushpa lives with her skilled-worker husband and fou...

Cannabis smoking-a risk factor for lung cancer

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Zehru Nissa, Jammu and Kashmir (First published in The Greater Kashmir )  Cannabis abuse is reaching alarming levels across Kashmir. Ac...

Road Safety Bill: Dying due to slow drive

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Alka Pande, CNS Correspondent Photo credit: CNS: citizen-news.org On June 3, 2014, the Indian Minister for Rural Development, Gopinath...

Stop illicit trade of tobacco products

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Carolyn Kavita Tauro, CNS Special Correspondent Tobacco kills 6 million people annually of whom more than 600,000 are non-smokers dying fr...

Hitting roadblocks to tobacco endgame

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Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS   With one person dying every six seconds from a tobacco-related disease -- almost 5.4 million...

Will countries 'walk the talk' to end the tobacco epidemic?

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Despite unprecedented pressure from tobacco industry to delay, dilute or thwart progress on a range of tobacco control measures globally, c...

Efforts to silence dissent dangerous for democracy

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Dr Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Awardee and CNS Columnist The decision by IIT Madras to de-recognise Ambedkar Periyar Student Circle is conde...

No relation between learning and examination

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Dr Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Awardee and CNS Columnist Photo credit: CNS: citizen-news.org Some of my teacher friends are quite conce...

My first encounter with asthma

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CNS image Library/2014 Diana Wangari, CNS Correspondent, Kenya (First published in The Sta r, Kenya) Do you remember when you were yo...