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Decades Of Failure To End TB And Tobacco Use – OpEd

Despite strong scientific and community-based evidence to support tobacco and TB control, 1.1 million people died of TB in 2023

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Inconvenient Question: Science Is Gifting Us New HIV Prevention Tools But Is It Expanding Choices For The People? – OpEd

Any new HIV prevention method is not meant to sit on the shelf but to be used by the people

14.11.2024 10

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Firewall Gender Equality From Threats Like Anti-Rights Geneva Consensus Declaration – OpEd

Trump’s earlier tenure as President of the United States was marred by the infamous jolt to abortion rights and broader sexual and...

11.11.2024 10

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Hospital-Acquired Infections Are Fuelling Antimicrobial Resistance – OpEd

When we go to seek healthcare in hospitals or other healthcare settings, getting infected with hospital-acquired infections instead, is not

30.10.2024 8

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Young People Do Not Want A Future With Looming Threat Of Antimicrobial Resistance – OpEd

Who would we ever want to deal with infections that are difficult (or impossible) to treat! Young people are right

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HIV Response Under Lens Of Indigenous Rights – OpEd

It is alarming to note that as per UNAIDS data the annual number of new HIV infections in the Latin

16.10.2024 40

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Are We Delivering New HIV Prevention Tools With Speed, Scale And Equity? – OpEd

Imagine failing 1.3 million times in a year: Failure to ensure that everyone has access to prevention options to protect oneself from HIV acquisition,...

15.10.2024 40

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Are We On The Path To End AIDS By 2030? – OpEd

The reality is a mix of YES and NO. While the facts and figures shared in the latest report by UNAIDS reveal that as a world we are NOT already on the...

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Feminism Is The Bedrock For A Socially Just And Ecologically Sustainable World – OpEd

Recently, over 500 feminist leaders from 38 countries across Asia and the Pacific region gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand at

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Rocking Chair Syndrome Gripping The TB Response? – OpEd

Akin to a rocking chair that moves forwards and backwards without any real progress, we cannot assume busy TB programmes

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One Step Towards Making The World Free Of TB – OpEd

Let us share an old story you might have read it already. But guiding lights always guide. This is one

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Feminist World-Building: Creative Energies, Collective Journeys – OpEd

… So goes the theme of the 4th Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) which will be held in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand next month. This theme is a...

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Move From Rhetoric To Action On #PutPeopleFirst – OpEd

Transformative empowerment is mostly not given by ‘experts from the outside,’ but happens when the most affected people themselves rise to take...

27.08.2024 40

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No One Is Safe From Drug-Resistant Microbes Until Everyone Is Safe – OpEd

“No one is safe until everyone is safe,” said Dr Umesh Dahal, Director General, Department of Livestock Services, Government of

22.08.2024 10

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Reaching Unreached Migrants In Unorganised Workforce With Health Services – OpEd

According to the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Government of India, the workers in the unorganised sector constitute about

20.08.2024 90

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AIDS Deaths Declining Globally Except In Eastern Europe And Central Asia

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

15.08.2024 4

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The Power Of Profit: People-Led Social Enterprises – OpEd

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

06.08.2024 90

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Youth-Led Initiatives Spark Hope For Children And Adolescents Living With HIV – OpEd

“As a young person living with HIV, I had self-stigmatised myself due to the fear of discrimination… fear of discrimination

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Alarm Rings In Asia Pacific For Not Making U-Equals-U And HIV Prevention Accessible To All – OpEd

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

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Advanced HIV Disease Threatens To Wither Away The Gains Made In Fight Against AIDS – OpEd

No one needs to die of AIDS because, thanks to science, lifesaving antiretroviral therapy and viral suppression can gift all people living with HIV a...

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We Have More Infection-Prevention Options Now But Are They Actual Choices For The People? – OpEd

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

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Putting People First Means Following Gandhi’s Talisman – OPED

What can be a better explanation of what #PutPeopleFirst means than what was explained so candidly by Mahatma Gandhi. He had said: “I will give you...

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Will #PutPeopleFirst Mantra Drive HIV Responses? – OpEd

Science has gifted us proven tools to stop the spread of HIV infection, as well as to ensure that all people living with HIV live healthy and...

10.07.2024 90

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Timely And Accurate Diagnosis Is The Bedrock To Stop Misuse And Overuse Of Medicines – OpEd

Drug-resistant disease-causing microbes can infect any one of us. Bhakti Chavan, a promising biotechnologist, who never had TB before, got

27.06.2024 90

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Another Feather In The Cap Of Treatment As HIV Prevention – OpEd

Results of a phase 3 PURPOSE 1 HIV prevention study done among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa and Uganda show that there were no...

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Are We On Track To End AIDS, Viral Hepatitis And STIs By 2030? – OpEd

Well, it seems to be a mixed bag of gains and losses. While there are reasons to celebrate, significant gaps

14.06.2024 90

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From The Frontlines: Homeless Person Won Over Alcoholism, Survived Floods And Defeated TB – OpEd

After suffering debilitating TB symptoms for over a year, a homeless person got lifesaving help from a community health worker.

12.06.2024 90

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Protect The Medicines That Protect Us – OpEd

Protect the medicines that protect us and ensure that all those who need them can access them, so said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director...

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Indonesia Is Enforcing Stronger Anti-Tobacco Measures Despite Industry Interference – OpEd

There is plenty of scientific evidence to show that tobacco kills one out of every two of its users (as per the WHO). Tobacco use devastates lives and...

04.06.2024 40

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Candy Flavoured Traps To Hook The Next Generation – OpEd

Young people are using e-cigarettes at rates higher than adults in many countries, as the tobacco industry is specifically targeting youth, says The...

31.05.2024 90

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Youth Uprising Against Antimicrobial Resistance Which Is A Threatening Candidate For Next Global Health Emergency – OpEd

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is already among the top 10 global health threats. “If AMR is going to impact our present and future, then we, the...

20.05.2024 90

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Whither Social Justice And Decent Work For Women? – OpEd

“As we celebrate the Labour Day let us celebrate the women of the world, because it is the women who are holding this world together…” so said...

02.05.2024 100

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After Months Of Diagnostic Delay, Migrant Worker Could Access TB Services Only When Community Health Worker Met Him – OpEd

A migrant worker who was sick for over three months, actively sought medical help and advice, but his health kept deteriorating. Despite having...

22.04.2024 90

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The Chasm Between TB And HIV Continues – OpEd

“The two worst global health problems have combined forces well. But the institutions addressing them have miserably failed to put their act...

02.04.2024 10

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It Is Not Natural Disasters But Manmade Barriers That Block Access To TB Care – OpEd

It is not natural disasters (like hurricanes or storms) which block access to TB care services most times, but manmade barriers that fuel injustices,...

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