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Tribute to Braveheart
By Shobha Shukla  
29 December, 2012

Strong mandate for fast-track judicial process for cases of sexual violence
By Bobby Ramakant  
29 December, 2012

Smoking Is A Big Health Risk For Women
By Dr Shoma A Chatterji  
27 December, 2012

Rejoice For Giving Birth And Bringing Life To This Earth
By Shobha Shukla  
23 December, 2012

Change The Old Order—Stop These Barbaric Acts
By Shobha Shukla  
21 December, 2012

TB Alliance to Develop Pediatric TB Drugs With Support From UNITAID
By Citizen News Service  
21 December, 2012

Union model leads to successful TB-HIV collaborative care
By Citizen News Service  
19 December, 2012

Down With Formula Milk And Tobacco For A Healthy World
By Shobha Shukla  
17 December, 2012

People Are Leading Longer But Sicker Lives
By Shobha Shukla  
14 December, 2012

Come Join The Fight...
By Shobha Shukla  
10 December, 2012

Can Uganda achieve zero new HIV infections and AIDS deaths by 2015?
By Kakaire Ayub Kirunda  
9 December, 2012

Myth of Gujarat’s Economic Performance under Modi
By Dr Rahul Pandey  
9 December, 2012

Meeting the targets: Are we doing better in HIV than in TB?
By Shobha Shukla  
9 December, 2012

Operational strategy to stop TB despite tight purse strings
By Bobby Ramakant  
8 December, 2012

Global network to target asthma
By Citizen News Service  
8 December, 2012

Tuberculosis Control: Are We On Our Way?
By Shobha Shukla  
1 December, 2012

When a virus (HIV) and a bacteria (TB) can work so well together, why can't we?
By Bobby Ramakant  
1 December, 2012

Spotlight on Tuberculosis control in Thailand
By Shobha Shukla  
30 November, 2012

Top-five critical global priority actions on AIDS in 2013
By Bobby Ramakant  
29 November, 2012

Is There Hope For MDR-TB Patients?
By Shobha Shukla  
29 November, 2012

Has Childhood TB Come Of Age?
By Shobha Shukla  
27 November, 2012

Empowered Communities And Accountable Health Systems: Need Of The Hour
By Shobha Shukla  
26 November, 2012

Diabetes is a public health disaster
By Shobha Shukla  
26 November, 2012

Addressing The Double Burden of TB-Diabetes: Better Late Than Never
By Shobha Shukla  
26 November, 2012

Global tobacco treaty meetings marred by industry interference
By Citizen News Service  
21 November, 2012

No longer business as usual for tuberculosis response
By Shobha Shukla  
21 November, 2012

Civil Society Call For Urgency In TB Control
By Shobha Shukla  
16 November, 2012

Bi-directional TB Diabetes Screening in India and China
By Shobha Shukla  
16 November, 2012

Lung health: Cough is not normal
By Kakaire Ayub Kirunda  
15 November, 2012

Give TB A Human Face And Not Mere Statistics
By Shobha Shukla  
15 November, 2012

Uganda in plan to vaccinate 3 million children against pneumonia
By Kakaire Ayub Kirunda  
14 November, 2012

Despite the odds, countries adopt illicit trade protocol of global tobacco treaty
By Citizen News Service  
14 November, 2012

Role of community healthcare workers in caring for children with pneumonia is key
By Bobby Ramakant  
11 November, 2012

What Killed Vedavalli - TB Or Sheer Negligence Of Doctors?
By Shobha Shukla  
10 November, 2012

Call For A Comprehensive Approach To Childhood Pneumonia
By Shobha Shukla  
10 November, 2012

Unless We Breathe Well We Cannot Live
By Shobha Shukla  
8 November, 2012

Preparing the leaders of change for sanitation
By Alka Pande  
7 November, 2012

Patients Overturn First Ever Product Patent On Medicine In India
By Shobha Shukla  
5 November, 2012

New Roll Back Malaria report highlights malaria burden in Asia - Pacific
By Citizen News Service  
2 November, 2012

When Will We Have A Surer Safer And Shorter Cure For MDR TB?
By Shobha Shukla  
2 November, 2012

Preventing an epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis in India
By Dr Madhukar Pai  
31 October, 2012

Beware: All Forms of Tobacco Are Harmful
By Shobha Shukla  
17 October, 2012

Save Human Lives And Not The Tobacco Industry
By Shobha Shukla  
15 October, 2012

Health Programmes must collaboratively address TB–Diabetes
By Bobby Ramakant  
12 October, 2012

The Dangerous Communion of Tuberculosis and Diabetes
By Shobha Shukla  
8 October, 2012

New Interventions To Treat Diabetic Foot Infections
By Shobha Shukla  
5 October, 2012

MDR-TB, tobacco control, Lung diseases to be in focus at 2012 global meet
By Shobha Shukla  
28 September, 2012

Never Fall In Love With Technology
By Shobha Shukla  
28 September, 2012

ICPS Roll out in Uttar Pradesh Possible within the next three months?
By Anjali Singh  
26 September, 2012

No getting to zero new HIV infections in ASEAN without women
By Citizen News Service  
26 September, 2012

Look At Your Feet And Listen To Them
By Shobha Shukla  
26 September, 2012

Charcot Foot In Diabetes: An Enigma
By Shobha Shukla  
26 September, 2012

Comprehensive and integrated action must to control heart disease
By Bobby Ramakant  
25 September, 2012

An HIV vaccine will never work in isolation
By Kakaire Ayub Kirunda  
15 September, 2012

Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision partially protects against HIV, HPV and Herpes
By Bobby Ramakant  
15 September, 2012

Vaccines: Final Nail In HIV Coffin?
By Shobha Shukla  
13 September, 2012

Celebrating The First Ever Global Female Condom Day
By Shobha Shukla  
12 September, 2012

Vaginal Microbicide offers hope for partial anti-HIV protection
By Bobby Ramakant  
12 September, 2012

Avoid Amputation: Manage The Diabetic Foot
By Shobha Shukla  
11 September, 2012

Combination Prevention: Can it turn the HIV tide?
By Bobby Ramakant  
11 September, 2012

Indoor Air Pollution Not A Public Health Issue in Zimbabwe
By Chief K Masimba Biriwasha  
8 September, 2012

Staff accountability is defined in Juvenile Justice Act
By Anjali Singh  
5 September, 2012

The Sick House Syndrome: Indoor Air Pollution
By Shobha Shukla  
4 September, 2012

Time for multiple prevention technologies (MPTs) is now
By Shobha Shukla  
24 August, 2012

Women suffer more with rising trade globalization
By Shobha Shukla  
17 August, 2012

Anal health is not just a gay issue: Women need rectal microbicides too
By Bobby Ramakant  
14 August, 2012

Translating clinical efficacy into public health effectiveness
By Bobby Ramakant  
14 August, 2012

Community engagement is key as rectal microbicides research progresses ahead
By Bobby Ramakant  
13 August, 2012

Mother's Milk Is The Best Nutrition For The Child
By Shobha Shukla  
9 August, 2012

Childhood tuberculosis in spotlight at AIDS 2012
By Shobha Shukla  
5 August, 2012

Legal barriers and stereotypes block care services for same sex couples
By Jittima Jantanamalaka  
31 July, 2012

AIDS 2012: Call for access to HCV treatment
By Shona Shonning  
31 July, 2012

Punitive laws block access to health services for injecting drug users
By Shobha Shukla  
31 July, 2012

Project ARM: Addressing HIV prevention needs of those practicing anal sex
By Bobby Ramakant  
31 July, 2012

Double-Trouble: HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV)
By Ishdeep Kohli  
31 July, 2012

After 19 years of neglect, female condoms in spotlight at AIDS 2012
By Ishdeep Kohli  
31 July, 2012

Partners In Crime: MDR TB and HIV
By Shobha Shukla  
28 July, 2012

Anti-HIV rectal microbicide research moves ahead
By Bobby Ramakant  
28 July, 2012

Improving treatment adherence in hard to reach populations: it CAN be done
By Ian Hodgson  
28 July, 2012

Research Consortium to Address Structural Drivers of HIV Epidemic
By Megan Gottemoeller  
28 July, 2012

Access to treatment – mapping the progress, seeing the gaps
By Ian Hodgson  
28 July, 2012

Uganda AIDS Activist Sees Hope in Rectal Microbicides
By Chief K Masimba Biriwasha  
28 July, 2012

Supporting adolescents and youth living with HIV
By Ian Hodgson  
28 July, 2012

AIDS-free generation is within reach
By Ishdeep Kohli  
27 July, 2012

Where Is The TB Quilt, Nay Mask?
By Shobha Shukla  
27 July, 2012

Addressing the Challenges To Transform The HIV-TB Response
By Shobha Shukla  
26 July, 2012

"...And Lubes" in spotlight at AIDS 2012
By Bobby Ramakant  
26 July, 2012

School programmes for deworming may not be that effective: Research
By Citizen News Service  
25 July, 2012

New Scientific Strategy In The Quest For An HIV Cure
By Shobha Shukla  
25 July, 2012

Integrating TB/HIV Services in Zimbabwe: A Key Public Health Priority
By Chief K Masimba Biriwasha  
19 July, 2012

Turning The Tide of TB-HIV Co-infection In Children
By Shobha Shukla  
17 July, 2012

Let Me Be Myself As I Walk Together With You
By Shobha Shukla  
13 July, 2012

Eradicate TB Through Public Awareness Campaigns: Educate The Public
By Shobha Shukla  
13 July, 2012

Turn The Tide: Treat HIV and cure TB
By Shobha Shukla  
8 July, 2012

Rectal microbicide research gives hope for HIV protection
By Somya Arora  
6 July, 2012

Integrating TB and HIV Care
By Citizen News Service  
4 July, 2012

Jail inmates set to adapt holistic way of life
By Anjali Singh  
2 July, 2012

HIV prevention needs more tools such as microbicides
By Somya Arora  
2 July, 2012

Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Protects Against HIV
By Bobby Ramakant  
27 June, 2012

The Noose Tightens Around The Private TB Sector In India
By Shobha Shukla  
24 June, 2012

Please Vote For Me… I Am So And So’s Wife!
By Shobha Shukla  
23 June, 2012

Phooti Kismat Nalayak Zindagi - A Doomed Fate, A Useless Life
By Shobha Shukla  
12 June, 2012

Tobacco - a threat to human health
By Shikha Srivastava  
7 June, 2012

How Healthy Are The healthcare Settings for Transgender or Hijra people?
By Shobha Shukla  
7 June, 2012

Landmark meet on sexual minorities: National Hijra Habba Consultation
By Shobha Shukla  
5 June, 2012

Our Health Policies Cannot Be Decided By Tobacco Companies
By Shobha Shukla  
31 May, 2012

The Cloud Of Tobacco Smoke Is Choking The World
By Shobha Shukla  
30 May, 2012

Chewing Tobacco: A Lethal Menace On The Block
By Shobha Shukla  
28 May, 2012

India’s tobacco challenge
By Shoba John  
23 May, 2012

Report on Rights of Transgender people and HIV vulnerability
By Shobha Shukla  
18 May, 2012

What does making TB a notifiable disease mean to us?
By Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant  
12 May, 2012

Do Not Let Asthma Ruin Your Life
By Shobha Shukla  
3 May, 2012

One More Star Added To The Glory of Bihar
By Rajesh K Shreevastava  
2 May, 2012

You can manage your asthma
By Shobha Shukla  
2 May, 2012

Who pays? Financing for new HIV prevention technologies
By Bobby Ramakant  
19 April, 2012

Be The Change You Want To See
By Shobha Shukla  
17 April, 2012

Making Access to HIV prevention services a reality for all those in need
By Bobby Ramakant  
17 April, 2012

More safety data needed on lubricants used in anal sex
By Bobby Ramakant  
17 April, 2012

For how long will anal health and hygiene be neglected?
By Bobby Ramakant  
17 April, 2012

Better health increases age: World Health Day
By Prof (Dr) Surya Kant  
7 April, 2012

Hello, This Is Nature’s Call From A Garbage Heap!
By Shobha Shukla  
7 April, 2012

A Caring Treatment Conquers All Odds: Story of Shanti
By Shobha Shukla  
5 April, 2012

12th Tele Cine Awards: Kalpana Patowary nominated - BEST PLAYBACK SINGER FEMALE
By BJNS  
3 April, 2012

Love Destiny... and Those Two Days
By Murlidhar Srivastava  
2 April, 2012

Lives before profits: India issues first compulsory license
By Bobby Ramakant  
1 April, 2012

Plan to develop new vaccines could help stop TB in our children’s lifetimes
By Dr Lucica Ditiu  
1 April, 2012

Less than half a per cent Indian villages can be termed clean
By Alka Pande  
1 April, 2012

TB in Children: Why Zimbabwe Must Act Now
By Chief K Masimba Biriwasha  
1 April, 2012

Tuberculosis: Ugly scar on beautiful childhood
By Shobha Shukla  
1 April, 2012

Tuberculosis Is A Women's Issue Too
By Chief K Masimba Biriwasha  
9 March, 2012

TB Germs Thrive On Poor Nutrition
By Shobha Shukla  
7 March, 2012

Whither Our Human Morality?
By Shobha Shukla  
2 March, 2012

Polio eradication has a lesson for TB control
By Blessina Kumar  
29 February, 2012

Preventing Tuberculosis in Children in spotlight: report
By Citizen News Service  
27 February, 2012

Towards A More Enabling Environment For Effective HIV/AIDS Responses
By Shobha Shukla  
24 February, 2012

The Impact of Law On Effective HIV Responses In India
By Shobha Shukla  
23 February, 2012

Patients' Charter for TB Care, and childhood TB
By Bobby Ramakant  
22 February, 2012

Zero children dying from tuberculosis by 2015 is possible, if...
By Hara Mihalea  
21 February, 2012

Childhood Tuberculosis: Act before it is too late
By Shobha Shukla  
7 February, 2012

The Gender Agenda: Making HIV Responses Work for Key Affected Women and Girls
By Shobha Shukla  
6 February, 2012

Why are health workers important?
By Citizen News Service  
6 February, 2012

Deathly friendship of bacteria and virus: TB-HIV co-infection
By Shobha Shukla  
4 February, 2012

Global Health Workforce - Pathways to Health
By Citizen News Service  
4 February, 2012

From despondency to optimism: 25 years of HIV in India
By Shobha Shukla  
3 February, 2012

What's Cooking In The Kitchen: Peace or Conflict?
By Shobha Shukla  
1 January, 2012