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AUTHOR: SHOBHA SHUKLA

It is time to hold governments to account for ending tobacco

It is time to hold governments to account for ending tobacco

Feb 7, 2024 | Feature Article

Currently the intergovernmental talks on the legally binding global tobacco treaty are taking place in Panama. This meet ...

Jan 9, 2024 | Feature Article

Gender-based violence is among the most prevalent human rights violations globally. Urgency is palpable as governments w ...

Nov 6, 2023 | Feature Article

Tobacco industry interference in its myriad sinister forms is one of the biggest obstacles to implement the legally-bind ...

Jun 22, 2023 | Feature Article

We need food, not tobacco, was the theme of the World No Tobacco Day 2023. The UN health agency, the World Health Orga ...

Jun 18, 2023 | Feature Article

We are about to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the first-ever United Nations High Level Meeting (UN HLM) on the fight ...

May 4, 2023 | Feature Article

As per the latest Global TB Report of the World Health Organization (WHO), globally 10.6 million people developed TB in ...

Mar 12, 2023 | Feature Article

Patients in India and other countries are falling ill with drug-resistant TB every day. We believe these patients shoul ...

Mar 9, 2023 | Feature Article

Despite an alarming TB burden among the older people, programmatic response to address it is far from optimal, said Dr V ...

Feb 2, 2023 | Feature Article

Although the world gave unprecedented attention to the COVID-19 pandemic, yet it has long ignored paying heed to one of ...

Dec 12, 2022 | Feature Article

Violence against women and girls remains the most pervasive human rights violation around the world. It manifests itself ...

Nov 28, 2022 | Feature Article

Antimicrobials have been widely used to fight diseases, including sexually transmitted infections (STIs), for nearly ...

Nov 21, 2022 | Feature Article

As the world observes the annual World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) from November 18 to 24, the spotlight is ...

Nov 17, 2022 | Feature Article

India is a leading consumer of antibiotics and hence also carries a huge burden of drug-resistant pathogens. Between ...

Nov 7, 2022 | Feature Article

Gender equality is an essential cog-in-the-wheel of human development which is socially just and ecologically sustai ...

Aug 1, 2022 | Feature Article

Science has gifted us tools and evidence-based approaches to ensure that there is minimal risk of transmission of HI ...

Jul 29, 2022 | Feature Article

Indigenous peoples are among those in Canada where disproportionately high numbers of new HIV infections occur. Indi ...

Shobha Shukla
Shobha Shukla

Shobha Shukla is the founding Managing Editor of CNS (Citizen News Service) and is a feminist, health and development justice advocate. She is a former senior Physics faculty of Loreto Convent College and current Coordinator of Asia Pacific Media Network to end TB & tobacco and prevent NCDs (APCAT Media). The Author has 202 publications on modernghana.com