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COLUMNIST: SHOBHA SHUKLA

Put people first: Indonesian advocates demand community-led HIV, TB responses

Put people first: Indonesian advocates demand community-led HIV, TB responses

Aug 22, 2026 | Feature Article

As the world approaches the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, Indonesian health officials and community advocates are ...

Aug 18, 2026 | Feature Article

TB continues to be the most common opportunistic infection as well as biggest cause of deaths of people living with HIV ...

Aug 14, 2026 | Feature Article

Cambodia 39;s recent achievement of achieving the 95-95-95 HIV-related targets demonstrates what determined national le ...

Aug 11, 2026 | Feature Article

Some of the most important lessons from the recently concluded AIDS 2026 Conference were learnt not inside the conferenc ...

Aug 5, 2026 | Feature Article

At a recent global meet, a session cut through the usual conference optimism with a stark warning: the global AID ...

Aug 1, 2026 | Feature Article

Rising attacks against health and gender rights are threatening the global AIDS response. No wonder, a special session o ...

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 ...

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).