AUTHOR: SHOBHA SHUKLA

Will governments firewall public health from Big Tobacco at the upcoming FCTC Treaty meet?

Nov 6, 2023 | Feature Article

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

When farmers choose to grow food, not tobacco, sustainable development wins

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 ...

The Head must follow what the hand writes

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 ...

Close the tap: Mopping the floor approach is not enough to end TB

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 ...

Will shorter, safer and more effective TB regimen reach those in need?

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 ...

We cannot end TB if we leave the older people behind

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 ...

Shadow pandemic: Gender-based violence is one of the biggest human rights violat...

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 ...

Violence against women and girls is not cultural but criminal

Dec 12, 2022 | Feature Article

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

Closing window of opportunity to save the medicines that save us from sexually t...

Nov 28, 2022 | Feature Article

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

Fork in the road: Will we protect medicines that protect us or deal with incurab...

Nov 21, 2022 | Feature Article

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

Antimicrobial resistance threatening to reverse progress on women's health

Nov 17, 2022 | Feature Article

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

Will global family planning meet galvanise governments to deliver on gender equa...

Nov 7, 2022 | Feature Article

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

Long-awaited goal of ensuring every child is born HIV-free

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 ...

Nothing about us, without us: Indigenous peoples lead from the front to #endAIDS

Jul 29, 2022 | Feature Article

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

Latest UNAIDS data paint a grim picture of the HIV epidemic

Jul 28, 2022 | Feature Article

A new report, ldquo;In Danger rdquo;, launched by UNAIDS just ahead of the 24th International AIDS Conference (AIDS ...

How will children living with HIV grow up normally when HIV-stigma still lurks?

Jul 25, 2022 | Feature Article

Although over four decades have passed since the first case of HIV got diagnosed globally, and commendable progress ...

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).