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Fully funding the TB response is a smart investment

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

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As per WHO’s Global TB Report 2018 financing for TB prevention, diagnosis and treatment continues to fall short of the amount needed and commitments from both domestic and international donor sources need to be stepped up.

Ending antimicrobial resistance is the lynchpin to #endTB as well as health security

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

[हिंदी] While reaffirming their commitment to end TB by 2030, the draft Political Declaration in the fight against tuberculosis by governments at the first UN High-Level Meeting on TB (#UNHLM to #endTB) acknowledges that "TB, including its drug-resistant forms, is a critical challenge and the leading infectious disease cause of death, the most common form of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) globally."

Despite challenges, Indonesia makes progress in fight against TB

Sustained financing is critical cog in the wheel to #endTB

[Podcast] Will world leaders fully fund the fight to #endTB?

Dr Sandeep Pandey's message to 73rd UNGA and UNHLM for a nuclear-free world

[Podcast] Sustainable societies are not possible without a nuclear-free world

Is it the final countdown to #endTB?

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

Firewalling tobacco control laws from industry interference is critical for SDGs

Rotation of pictorial health warnings on tobacco products

Manjari Peiris, Sri Lanka

[First published in Asian Tribune]
Sri Lanka initiated implementation of Article 11- as envisaged in WHO’s Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)- on packaging and labelling of tobacco products, in early 2015. Eight pictures on Pictorial Health Warnings (PHWs ), that covered 80% of the surface area of cigarette packets, were introduced.

Roll-out of new TB drugs with safeguards to check drug resistance

[Podcast] Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is posing serious threat not only to health security but also to #SDGs

Is AMR a threat? Health security is central to sustainable development

[Podcast] Tobacco industry's deception goes online: Digital marketing luring youth to deadly tobacco products

Tobacco industry exploits social media and digital tools to expand markets

[Podcast] Tobacco surveillance is key for accelerating progress to #endTobacco, #beatNCDs

Know your epidemic and know your response to #EndTobacco

[18/9 Webinar] Health security is central to "sustainable societies"

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Tip of the iceberg? Not just a health hazard, tobacco devastates development

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

(हिंदी) Tobacco kills over 7 million people annually. Every tobacco-related disease is preventable, and every tobacco related untimely death could have been averted.

Will SimpliciTB make TB treatment simpler?

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service)

(हिंदी) Taking the encouraging results of its NC-005 study one step forward, TB Alliance has initiated SimpliciTB a pivotal clinical study to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of a novel and potentially shorter 4 drug regimen for patients with drug-sensitive (DS) as well as multi drug-resistant (MDR) pulmonary TB.

Innovation is key to #endTB: A disease riddled with myths

Roger Paul Kamugasha, CNS Correspondent, Uganda

Photo credit: Roger Paul, Uganda

Tuberculosis (TB) — the silent killer — has found its place on the agenda of one of the forthcoming United Nations High Level Meetings (UNHLM on TB), for the first time in the annals of history. This has been made possible through the combined efforts of the Stop TB Partnership, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (The Global Fund), United Nations, G-20 nations, UNITAID, Russian Government, media, TB advocates who include TB survivors, celebrities who have spearheaded the campaign against TB, religious institutions and international/ regional/ national development partners.

Webinar: Why 73rd UN General Assembly must not ignore tobacco control

Tobacco causing epidemic of preventable diseases, untimely deaths

Tobacco industry interference continues to be big obstacle for sustainable societies

[Podcast] Why endgame of tobacco is vital for sustainable societies

Environment and lung health are vital for sustainable societies

[हिंदी] The 24th National Conference on Environmental Sciences and Pulmonary Diseases (NESCON 2018) will be held in Mumbai, India during 24-26 August 2018. “Environment and lung health are inalienable, if we are to deliver on promises made in National Health Policy 2017 (NHP 2017) as well as UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, said Dr Ishwar Gilada, Co-Chair of NESCON 2018 and President of AIDS Society of India (ASI), which is a national network of doctors and researchers in HIV care.

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Existence of civil society is under threat

Dr Ian Hodgson, CNS (Citizen News Service)

Gandhi ji's Talisman
CNS Image Library: Gandhi Settlement, Durban/ 2018

The increasing repression of civil society was a major theme that emerged during the recently concluded 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) in Amsterdam. A range of presentations and discussions confirmed that, in many countries, like Hungary, Russia, Venezuela, and the Philippines, the civil society space for HIV prevention is diminishing with the introduction of new laws and policies that are aimed at minimising access to human rights and jeopardising the health and well-being of key populations.