COLUMNIST: SHOBHA SHUKLA

Is patriarchy petrifying governments to deliver on gender equality?

Mar 11, 2025 | Feature Article

Despite a legally binding treaty and several other declarations, agreements and promises on gender equality and human ri ...

Change happens when gender inequality survivors join hands to stop TB

Mar 9, 2025 | Feature Article

Before 2025 World TB Day I spent a day accompanying TB affected street activists (TASA) - women who help homeless women ...

SDGs warrant breakthroughs not breakdowns in development financing

Feb 11, 2025 | Feature Article

Decisions of US President Trump have precipitated a funding crisis in many low- and middle-income countries for health a ...

Right wing policies threaten gender equality and health security

Feb 9, 2025 | Feature Article

Donald Trump rsquo;s presidency is likely to have far-reaching consequences for sexual and reproductive health, bodil ...

Frontline healthcare workers dispelling darkness below the lamp

Jan 22, 2025 | Feature Article

If we assume that a person who lives a few hundred metres away from one of the best TB clinics would have no problems in ...

Will the drive to find-treat-prevent TB continue till we end TB?

Jan 12, 2025 | Feature Article

Despite being the most populous district of Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh in India, Kangra has also led from the f ...

We cannot promote family life by restricting women's rights

Dec 26, 2024 | Feature Article

An anti-rights movement that is surreptitiously spreading its tentacles under the garb of 39;protecting family values ...

Engaging youth in tackling antimicrobial resistance to protect health and food s...

Dec 14, 2024 | Feature Article

Youth are critical change-makers not only as future prescribers and users of antimicrobials but also as influencers of t ...

Failure to find all TB cases defeats us in #endTB efforts

Dec 10, 2024 | Feature Article

If we fail to find all cases of an infectious disease (and put them on care), then it will keep spreading. We are not a ...

Reaching the unreached to find missing TB cases

Dec 1, 2024 | Feature Article

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it 39;s the only thing ...

Antimicrobial resistance is not a silent pandemic

Nov 24, 2024 | Feature Article

Antimicrobial Resistance directly kills more than 1 million people and is associated with almost 5 million deaths every ...

Decades of failure to end TB and tobacco use

Nov 20, 2024 | Feature Article

Despite strong scientific and community-based evidence to support tobacco and TB control, 1.1 million people died of TB ...

Are we on the wrong side of the #endTB track?

Nov 17, 2024 | Feature Article

It is time to stop decades of failure. We have a lot to do to EndTB by 2030, said Professor (Dr) Guy Marks, President ...

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).