[World #NoTobacco Day Webinar] Holding tobacco industry liable will be a game-changer for health and development
2018 World No Tobacco Day Webinar: Heart disease and tobacco
[Watch webinar recording] [Download or listen to the podcast] The thematic focus of 2018 World No Tobacco Day is "Tobacco and heart disease." Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) kill more people than any other cause of
death worldwide, and tobacco use and second-hand smoke exposure
contribute to approximately 12% of all heart disease deaths.
Is Zimbabwe on track to combat malaria?
Locadia Mavhudzi, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe
At the turn of the millennium, Zimbabwe recorded an estimated 2 million cases of malaria per year, ranking as one of the countries with the highest incidence rate of the disease. The country has since stepped up efforts to eradicate the disease, with over three million insecticide treated mosquito nets having been distributed to households in all of the country’s 47 malaria prone districts.
Yoga can help control asthma symptoms
A research study done under the guidance of Professor (Dr) Surya Kant, Head, Department of Respiratory Medicine, King George’s Medical University (KGMU), in collaboration with Lucknow University, found that 30 minutes of daily practice of yoga, along with standard medical treatment, improves the quality of life of asthma patients, by increasing their antioxidants’ levels, improving their lung functions, symptom scores and reducing the dose of inhaled medications.
Fixing minimum and maximum income bars is vital for equitable society
Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant, Sandeep Pandey
[First published in Socialist Party (India)]
[Hindi] Government doctors (and other employees) demanding salary hike is a common news. Succumbing to the temptation of greener pastures, government doctors moving to private hospitals in the country or migrating abroad is also fairly common.
[First published in Socialist Party (India)]
Countdown is on: 32 months left to achieve 90:90:90 HIV targets
Zimbabwe scales up fight against TB
Locadia Mavhudzi, CNS Correspondent, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe remains a country with a high burden of TB. It ranks amongst the world’s top 30 high TB burden countries, with the mining communities and prisons registering a high prevalence rate for this infectious disease. As the country joined the rest of the world to commemorate World TB Day
2018, the government showcased its significant strides towards reducing
new TB cases and deaths.
Ending TB is a multisectoral assignment, not a one-person job
Alice Sagwidza-Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland
The world gathers every year on World TB Day to commemorate and celebrate the milestones achieved so far towards reversing TB trends. There has indeed been a continuous remodeling of consolidated interventions from 1994-2005 focusing on directly observed treatment short course (DOTS), to the Stop TB strategies during 2006-2015, and now for 2016 -2030 focusing on the End TB strategy, noted Dr Mario Raviglione, Director at Global Health Centre with the University of Milan.
The world gathers every year on World TB Day to commemorate and celebrate the milestones achieved so far towards reversing TB trends. There has indeed been a continuous remodeling of consolidated interventions from 1994-2005 focusing on directly observed treatment short course (DOTS), to the Stop TB strategies during 2006-2015, and now for 2016 -2030 focusing on the End TB strategy, noted Dr Mario Raviglione, Director at Global Health Centre with the University of Milan.
Air pollution is an invisible killer: Denial will cost lives!
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| Source: WHO Air Pollution monitor |
Bad politics put people at risk of TB, but is TB on the political agenda?
Addressing gender inequity to eradicate TB in India
Pritha Roy Choudhury, CNS Correspondent, India
Rajni, the 19 year old girl who helps us with the domestic chores, suffers from some physical disability. She cannot walk properly. Hailing from a financially challenged family, her father drives a rickshaw while her mother contributes to the household income by ironing clothes. She and her two sisters work as domestic helps.
Rajni, the 19 year old girl who helps us with the domestic chores, suffers from some physical disability. She cannot walk properly. Hailing from a financially challenged family, her father drives a rickshaw while her mother contributes to the household income by ironing clothes. She and her two sisters work as domestic helps.
Partnerships should be based on solidarity and trust and not on greed
Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)
[Click here to listen or download the audio podcast] Partnerships that are critically important to progress towards a better world where a just social order is a reality for everyone, must be based on solidarity and trust, and not on greed. So believes Wardarina Thaib, who works at Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) and is co-chair of Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism (AP-RCEM), which is a platform for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Asia Pacific region to engage with different processes at the United Nations (UN).
Voices at People's Forum: Development justice is the lynchpin to #SDGs
Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)
The Asia-Pacific Civil Society Forum on Sustainable Development 2018 (more commonly known as the People’s Forum) was organized by civil society, whose secretariat is represented by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) as a coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism: AP-RCEM), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment).
Migrants trapped in quagmire: Neglected by their own country, mistreated by the host country
Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)
[Listen or download the podcast] This pretty well sums up the pathetic situation in which many migrants find themselves today. And while immigration refers to people who legally relocate to another country, the word migration can also be used in the context of birds and animals. In the case of human beings, migration is not a choice for most migrants. It is a condition forced upon them by their country of origin, as a result of weak economic conditions, poor social structures, conflict situations, and even environmental disasters.
[Listen or download the podcast] This pretty well sums up the pathetic situation in which many migrants find themselves today. And while immigration refers to people who legally relocate to another country, the word migration can also be used in the context of birds and animals. In the case of human beings, migration is not a choice for most migrants. It is a condition forced upon them by their country of origin, as a result of weak economic conditions, poor social structures, conflict situations, and even environmental disasters.
Mind-energy technique for management of challenging ailments
Dr Ajit Kumar Varma, CNS Columnist
A 55 year old male, suffering from Type 2 diabetes for the last 12 years, presented with pain, swelling and dark necrotic patches over his right leg. He gave a history of minor trauma to the leg about two weeks before admission to this hospital (Aster Medcity, Kochi), for which he was being treated earlier in another hospital. He developed fever with chills, increasing infection of the right leg, and was then transferred to our institute for onward management.
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| Dr A K Varma |
Stopping the allergic march
Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)
It begins within the first few months of life with skin allergy or dermatitis (eczema) and food allergy in infancy, and as the children grow up, the allergic march may progress to the development of allergic rhinitis (nasal allergy) and/or allergic asthma. So this Allergic March, refers to the natural history or typical progression of allergic diseases that often begin early in life. These allergic conditions could primarily be genetically inherited; however, the conditions or environment in which a child grows up also affects their development.
It begins within the first few months of life with skin allergy or dermatitis (eczema) and food allergy in infancy, and as the children grow up, the allergic march may progress to the development of allergic rhinitis (nasal allergy) and/or allergic asthma. So this Allergic March, refers to the natural history or typical progression of allergic diseases that often begin early in life. These allergic conditions could primarily be genetically inherited; however, the conditions or environment in which a child grows up also affects their development.
[Call to register] World TB Day Webinar: Politics of TB in 2018: Multisectoral accountability
[Watch webinar recording] [Listen or download podcast] In lead up to 2018 World TB Day, we invite you to have a direct interface with noted experts on why a multisectoral response is critically important if we are to end TB by 2030. The theme of World TB Day 2018 - "Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world" - focuses on building commitment to end TB, not only at the political level with heads of State, and ministers of health, but at all levels. All can be leaders of efforts to end TB in their own work or terrain.
She stood up to defeat TB
Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)
The youngest of 3 sisters, Ingrid Schoeman grew up in Pretoria and later started working as a dietician in a government hospital in Port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. She especially enjoys working in children’s wards in hospitals as part of her dietician’s job. But the year 2012 nearly shattered her happy and peaceful existence.
The youngest of 3 sisters, Ingrid Schoeman grew up in Pretoria and later started working as a dietician in a government hospital in Port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. She especially enjoys working in children’s wards in hospitals as part of her dietician’s job. But the year 2012 nearly shattered her happy and peaceful existence.
A tale with a difference
Shobha Shukla - CNS (Citizen News Service)
This is the story of Razia, a girl from village Bahpur in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. It has all the ingredients of a fairy tale, but with a difference. Razia might not be a run-of the-mill delicate princess depicted in fairy tales, rather she is the warrior princess of a modern day real story. Razia comes from a very poor Muslim family belonging to the barber
community. Abject poverty, an unemployed and visually challenged father;
a daily wage-earning mother, striving unsuccessfully to make ends
meet—all these were enough to snatch away a carefree childhood from her.
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