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COLUMNIST: SHOBHA SHUKLA

Cuts to prevention and community-led services could spark HIV resurgence in Asia Pacific

Cuts to prevention and community-led services could spark HIV resurgence in Asia Pacific

Jul 29, 2026 | Feature Article

Latest report of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) show that one-in-four people living with HIV wo ...

Jul 27, 2026 | Feature Article

As World Hepatitis Day falls on 28 July, the global health community confronts a stark reality: the scienceto eliminate ...

Jul 27, 2026 | Feature Article

From India to Eswatini, Kenya to Georgia, Nepal to South Africa, people living with HIV and TB survivors warn that sloga ...

Jul 24, 2026 | Feature Article

As the world grapples with the final stretch toward the 2030 goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat, Thailand rsq ...

Jul 22, 2026 | Feature Article

As the global HIV response faces shrinking funding, increasing pressure on civil society, and growing attacks on human r ...

Jul 8, 2026 | Feature Article

To this day 23 years-old Sneha (name changed to respect confidentiality) does not know with certainty how she got infect ...

Jun 27, 2026 | Feature Article

Only 54 months are left to deliver on the promise of gender equality (SDG-5), and health and wellbeing (SDG-3) by 2030. ...

Jun 13, 2026 | Feature Article

It all started with a road accident in Indian state of Punjab on 25th November 2001 which killed home maker Reshma - a m ...

Jun 2, 2026 | Feature Article

How can we allow the tobacco industry to fill its coffers while we the people have to empty our pockets to fend for and ...

May 31, 2026 | Feature Article

This year 39;s Menstrual Hygiene Day as well International Day of Action for Women rsquo;s Health is a grim reminder th ...

May 24, 2026 | Feature Article

An important Declaration endorsed by over 1500 experts has called upon Indonesia to ratify the lifesaving global tobacco ...

May 12, 2026 | Feature Article

The common phrase 39;good girls take care of family 39; reflects a deeply ingrained social expectation, often ...

May 2, 2026 | Feature Article

Despite growing backlash against women rsquo;s rights and feminist movements globally, it gives hope to see that world r ...

Apr 25, 2026 | Feature Article

Change calls us here to gather, strategise and shift power, so says the theme of Women Deliver Conference 2026, which ...

Apr 23, 2026 | Feature Article

High level ministerial delegations from over 100 countries (mostly from the Global South) are expected to converge in Ni ...

Mar 21, 2026 | Feature Article

With only 56 months left to end TB globally by 2030, the progress is way off the mark. To end TB, we have to protect peo ...

Mar 18, 2026 | Feature Article

The 70th session of the intergovernmental UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) - UN 39;s largest annual forum on ...

Shobha Shukla
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).