COLUMNIST: SHOBHA SHUKLA

Feminist world-building: Creative energies, collective journeys

Aug 30, 2024 | Feature Article

... So goes the theme of the 4th Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) which will be held in Chiang Mai in northern Thailan ...

Move from rhetoric to action on #PutPeopleFirst

Aug 26, 2024 | Feature Article

Transformative empowerment is mostly not given by lsquo;experts from the outside, rsquo; but happens when the most affe ...

No one is safe from drug-resistant microbes until everyone is safe

Aug 22, 2024 | Feature Article

No one is safe until everyone is safe, said Dr Umesh Dahal, Director General, Department of Livestock Services, Govern ...

Reaching the unreached migrants in unorganised workforce with health services

Aug 19, 2024 | Feature Article

According to the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Government of India, the workers in the unorganised sector constit ...

AIDS deaths declining globally except in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Aug 15, 2024 | Feature Article

AIDS-related deaths have declined worldwide except in Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. The latest data from joint ...

AIDS response caught in a debt trap

Aug 12, 2024 | Feature Article

When countries are unable to repay debts, domestic financing for health, education or social protection gets slashed whi ...

No one is immune to antimicrobial resistance

Aug 10, 2024 | Feature Article

Even the healthiest amongst us could face a life-threatening situation through a minor injury, routine surgery, or comm ...

The power of profit: People-led social enterprises

Aug 5, 2024 | Feature Article

While community-led organisations are playing a critical role in the people-centred delivery of HIV prevention, care and ...

Youth-led initiatives spark hope for children and adolescents living with HIV

Jul 31, 2024 | Feature Article

As a young person living with HIV, I had self-stigmatised myself due to the fear of discrimination hellip; fear of disc ...

Alarm rings in Asia Pacific for not making U-equals-U and HIV prevention accessi...

Jul 25, 2024 | Feature Article

The latest 2024 data from United Nations joint programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) show that highest number of people who got ...

A-for-Accountability is missing in responses to HIV, hepatitis, STIs and TB

Jul 23, 2024 | Feature Article

We have the science-based tools to prevent, diagnose, treat and manage all four infections: HIV, hepatitis, sexually tra ...

Advanced HIV disease threatens to wither away the gains made in fight against AI...

Jul 21, 2024 | Feature Article

No one needs to die of AIDS because, thanks to science, lifesaving antiretroviral therapy and viral suppression can gift ...

We have more infection-prevention options now but are they actual choices for th...

Jul 19, 2024 | Feature Article

Scientific research and development has thankfully increased the number of prevention options we have today to stop the ...

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).