Columnist: SHOBHA SHUKLA

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 ...

Gender-affirming care: Thailand's transgender people lead by example

Jul 24, 2022 | Feature Article

According to the article published in The Lancet last year, ldquo;transgender-specific data could benefit efforts i ...

AIDS 2022: Children and young people turning adversities into stepping stones

Jul 23, 2022 | Feature Article

In the lead up to this year rsquo;s 24th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2022), which is being held in Montreal, ...

HIV care is essential and lifesaving, but not enough for living normal lives

Jul 22, 2022 | Feature Article

Lifesaving antiretroviral therapy, as well as the full range of HIV care and support services are indeed essential b ...

Pandemic treaty talks resume amidst lurking corporate pressure

Jul 20, 2022 | Feature Article

Unless profiteering from illness stops, corporations which are becoming richer even during disasters and pandemics, ...

New global plan launched to #endTB in next 101 months

Jul 12, 2022 | Feature Article

Despite the promise by all countries to end TB by 2030 (and India to end TB by 2025), decline in TB rates, deaths, a ...

During the lockdown, community led from the front in ensuring HIV treatment reac...

Jun 20, 2022 | Feature Article

HIV treatment and care could continue during COVID-19, thanks to intense community participation, said Daxa Patel, ...

Far from the promise of endgame, tobacco epidemic continues...

May 20, 2022 | Feature Article

Tobacco industry-propelled epidemic of tobacco-caused diseases and untimely deaths continue to plague human developm ...

About Author
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).