Columnist: SHOBHA SHUKLA

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 ...

Game-changing HIV research offers hope for people with HIV and to end AIDS

Feb 25, 2022 | Feature Article

Remarkable progress has been made in prevention and treatment of HIV infections since the first AIDS case was diagno ...

A bouquet of novel compounds: New treatment options for HIV

Aug 1, 2021 | Feature Article

It was 40 years ago when the first case of HIV infection was diagnosed. Since then, 77.5 million people have been in ...

One size does not fit all: Expanding the buffet of choices for preventing HIV

Jul 26, 2021 | Feature Article

Great strides have been made in HIV prevention, treatment and care, since the first case of the viral infection was ...

Tale of two pandemics: Follow the science and do not forget one at the cost of t...

Jul 20, 2021 | Feature Article

Covid-19 has posed innumerable health, economic, and social challenges for all, including people living with HIV. It ...

Governments must adopt a strong political declaration that the global crisis man...

Jul 9, 2021 | Feature Article

Because if they do not, then we are doomed to fail to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 (f ...

Gender equality and human rights: "Let different flowers bloom in the garden of ...

Dec 28, 2020 | Feature Article

...All must be encouraged in an understanding of the fact that all human beings are born good, but they may be endowed ...

Ending gender-based violence is a human rights imperative

Dec 14, 2020 | Feature Article

There is a global epidemic of violence against women - both within conflict zones and within societies at peace ...

We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing

Sep 20, 2020 | Feature Article

...So said the famous playwright and political activist George Bernard Shaw. Alas, instead of being celebrated, olde ...

Gender stereotypes plaguing the pandemic response

Jul 31, 2020 | Feature Article

As per a recent news, a senior bureaucrat in Lucknow said, The increase in female infection (of COVID-19) ratio is ...

Public services are essential to COVID-19 response and for fairer and equitable ...

Jun 25, 2020 | Feature Article

The United Nations marked this year 39;s Public Service Day online celebrations by honouring the women and men who ...

Universal Access To Sexual And Reproductive Health Services Is A Human Rights Im...

Mar 6, 2020 | Feature Article

The Asia Pacific region is home to more than half of the global population and many low-income countries. While the regi ...

A new formulation of life-saving medicines on the anvil for children living with...

Dec 8, 2019 | Feature Article

An easy to consume, heat-stable, fixed-dose combination of four antiretrovirals (ARVs) developed for HIV infected infant ...

Inside out: Climate change-induced migration

Sep 21, 2019 | Feature Article

Climate change greatly impacts the lives of migrants in different parts of the world. According to the United Nations, b ...

A Tale Of Two Positives Attracting Each Other

Jul 28, 2019 | Feature Article

I met the two of them at the Clinica Condesa Iztapalapa, in Mexico City, where I had gone to attend the 10th IAS Confere ...

Complacency kills: Prevention cannot take a backseat while we scale up treatment...

Dec 11, 2018 | Feature Article

The global health system is only as strong as its weakest parts had said UNDP rsquo;s Mandeep Dhaliwal in her arti ...

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).