#UHCday: Voices of 7 women leaders on boosting HIV prevention to #endAIDS

Strengthening community participation is crucial for ending AIDS

Beryl Osindo, CNS Correspondent, Kenya

Photo credit: Beryl Osindo

HIV/AIDS remains an epidemic in several countries, but major milestones are yet to be reached. In order to achieve the ambitious 90-90-90 targets of UNAIDS by 2020 and to eventually end AIDS by 2030, many countries have incorporated plans that address evidence based studies, systematic scientific findings, and training programs that include people from diverse backgrounds. Notably, key messages around the infection have been shared.

Complacency kills: Prevention cannot take a backseat while we scale up treatment coverage to #endAIDS

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

[Webinar recording, podcast] "The global health system is only as strong as its weakest parts" had said UNDP’s Mandeep Dhaliwal in her article around last year's World AIDS Day. The context has only deepened over the year, not only for ending AIDS but also for health security in general. With Universal Health Coverage Day (UHC Day) on 12th December this year, time is running out to catch up on lost opportunities to advance towards UHC.

Regulate 'new' tobacco products as tobacco products

This Podcast presents our conversation with Dr Tara Singh Bam, who was part of Nepal government delegation at the global tobacco treaty negotiations (formally called the 8th Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control). He is also the Deputy Regional Director at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease or The Union. He also spoke about the importance of the forthcoming 3rd Summit of Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for tobacco control and prevention of non-communicable diseases or AP-CAT in Singapore later this week.

Government of South Africa and other 180 governments who met at the global tobacco treaty negotiations had mandated a research study on new tobacco products, like heat-not-burn, which pose a threat to public health - particularly to children. But world’s biggest tobacco company launched these so-called alternatives to tobacco smoking in South Africa.

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[Podcast] Prevention cannot take a backseat while we progress towards 90-90-90 goals to #endAIDS

World AIDS Day Webinar: More needs to be done alongwith 90-90-90 to #endAIDS!

[World AIDS Day Webinar] More needs to be done alongwith 90-90-90 to #endAIDS!

[Webinar recording] [Podcast] 193 governments have committed to end AIDS by 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs), which aspires to eliminate transmission of HIV and healthy and productive normal lifespans for all people living with HIV (PLHIV). We must ensure that all PLHIVs know their status, all of them receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) and remain virally supressed (irresepective of where they reside), and no further transmission of HIV takes place, thereby making Undetectable = Untransmissible (U=U) a reality!

Paid leave for domestic violence survivors can help break the cycle of violence against women

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

[हिंदी]To mark the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) and 16 Days of Activism (25 November to 10 December), public sector unions launched a campaign to demand paid leave for all survivors of domestic violence. This is a part of efforts to strengthen labour laws and policies that can help stop violence and harassment.

[Podcast] Writing on the wall is clear: PrEP works, make sure it reaches those who may like to use it for HIV prevention!

[Podcast] Linked? AMR (antimicrobial resistance) and SRH (sexual and reproductive health)?

Antimicrobial resistance impacts sexual and reproductive health too!

Antimicrobial resistance: An understated threat

Avantika Chaturvedi, CNS Correspondent, India

Antimicrobial resistance is a condition when a microbe starts resisting the effects of medication that once could successfully treat diseases caused by the microbe. Resistant microbes are more difficult to treat, requiring alternative medications or higher doses of antimicrobials, making treatment more expensive and/or more toxic. Microbes resistant to multiple antimicrobials are called multi-drug resistant.

[Podcast] Will a long-acting & female-initiated HIV prevention option be a game-changer?

[Podcast] Local youth leadership is key for advancing progress on SRHR

Power of local youth leadership is pivotal for sexual health and rights

Overcoming antibiotic resistance is a collective responsibility

Ekwi Ajide, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria

Photo credit: WHO

Antibiotic resistance according to the World Health Organisation is one of the world's most serious health threats. This assertion may not be unconnected with the fact that antibiotic resistant bacterial infections are much harder to treat, just as they leave the sufferer sicker and infectious for longer periods, thereby giving the ‘superbugs’ more  opportunity to spread.

[Podcast] Accelerating R&D of long-acting and short-acting tools to prevent HIV is key to #endAIDS: Interview with Jim Pickett

South Africa’s war against superbugs

Ronel Sewpaul, CNS Correspondent, South Africa

What if the medicines that are used to treat our illnesses became ineffective over time? What if the hitherto curable diseases become untreatable? The peril of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that is looming large, has already started taking its toll and is likely to escalate if not addressed urgently.

[Podcast] Clinical management of HIV is also a vital part of progress towards ending AIDS

ASICON 2018 Co-Chair Prof GD Ravindran shares insights on HIV management and to accelerate response to #endAIDS

[Podcast] Expanding choices to prevent unintended pregnancy, STIs, HIV, is vital

Why expanding options to prevent unintended pregnancy, STIs, HIV, is key

[Podcast] Update on HIV prevention research from Dr Nirupama Sista, HPTN Director

Research for new HIV prevention tools, gives hope

[Podcast] CAPRISA's Dr Kogie Naidoo calls for better intergration of TB and HIV programmmes to #endTB and #endAIDS

TB and HIV programmes must unite better than bacteria and virus

[Podcast] Ending HIV transmission from parents to children is a public health and social justice imperative

Clock is ticking: 26 months to go for AIDS 90-90-90 goals

Is India on track to eliminate parents-to-child transmission of HIV?

Clock is ticking: 26 months left to meet AIDS 90-90-90 targets

[Recording] [Photos] [हिंदी] Governments have promised to end AIDS by 2030 but are we on track? Experts reviewed progress we are making towards some HIV related goals with a deadline earlier, such as the 90-90-90 targets set for 2020.

We want the ring...

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

That seemed to be the resonating refrain of women at the HIV Research for Prevention Conference (HIVR4P2018) held recently in Madrid, Spain. And no, they were not talking about the engagement ring. Their focus of interest was the intra-vaginal dapivirine vaginal ring - a long acting female-initiated, self-administered product that has been found to be highly effective in reducing the risk of HIV infection.

[SABC Newsbreak] Alarming incidence of breast cancer warrants urgent action, says Dr Pooja Ramakant

[SABC News and Current Affairs] By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer among Indian women. Details have the proportional prevalence in younger age-groups in the world's largest democracy is higher than the global average. According to the Indian Ministry of Health Welfare, the incidence of breast cancer is 25.8 per 100,000 women and is expected to rise to 35 per 100,000 women in 2026. Newsbreak's Taliesha Naidoo asked renowned breast cancer surgeon and Associate Professor in Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery of King George's Medical University, Dr Pooja Ramakant - how big a problem breast cancer is in India...

WHO prioritizes AMR: A key issue tackled through multi-sectoral partnership

Manjari Peiris, Sri Lanka
[First published in Asian Tribune]

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a multi-sectoral problem affecting human and animal health, agriculture, as well as the global environment and trade. Clean water, sustainable food production and poverty alleviation are but a few of the challenges it poses. It is learnt that AMR threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi.