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SHARE Sunday, November 23, 2025 Schooling ourselves to protect our present and secure our future
Please consider the below article that is a grim reminder that we are slipping back 97 years ago to pre-antibiotic era if we do not prevent AMR along with a AMR survivor story who got infected with drug-resistant fungal infection in 2012 (from fungus-infested soil) and continues to battle AMR.
SHARE Tuesday, November 18, 2025 Will governments make Big Tobacco pay and kick Big Polluters out from Treaty meets?
Please consider an important article around intergovernmental treaty meetings on climate and tobacco control (UNFCCC and WHO FCTC) where Big Polluters and Big Tobacco industry interferences are rampant. Experts call to firewall treaty negotiations from industry interference (so that governments can adapt strong and legally binding policy measures) and hold corporations liable for harm to human health, environment and planet...
SHARE Thursday, November 6, 2025 Gateway to universal access to SRHR is human right to health
Please consider the below article based on insights from United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right To Health as well as several other experts who call for ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health services and recognise right to health as a human right.
SHARE Sunday, November 2, 2025 World's largest TB prize illuminates Indian Molbios tech innovation reaching the unreached
Please consider the below article based on a breaking news from Manila that world's largest TB prize has once again (for 3rd time) gone to India. Earlier, in 2006, and 2017, Indian head of govt's TB programme and medical research council (ICMR) had got the award. This award recognised Indian group that made a TB test that needs NO lab infra or stable power supply. Can reach those at risk of diseases and serve...
SHARE Friday, October 31, 2025 Transforming teachers and teaching for adolescent health, well-being and gender equality
Shobha (author) taught physics to young girls for over 30 years. When she heard experts calling for transforming teachers and teaching for young people's health, well-being and gender equality, it resonated with her very strongly and brought back several memories of successful and not-so-successful efforts to help her students with life skills, health, well-being and to strive for equality and justice.
SHARE Thursday, October 23, 2025 Preserving hard-won gains: Feminist voices on the future of gender equality
Please consider the below article based on insights from two feminist leaders who underline that while we must struggle to preserve the hard-won gains made on gender equality, we also have to counter pushbacks and strive to achieve gender justice and human right to health.
SHARE Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Amidst anti-gender push, hope pins on ICFP 2025 to shift gears towards SRHRJ for all
Please consider the below article based on insights from womens rights activists who share ups and downs on gender equality at 80th United Nations General Assembly (some progress made but some pushbacks too) and also pin hope to the upcoming global meet to advance progress towards SDG-5 (gender equality for all by 2030).
SHARE Friday, October 17, 2025 WHO sounds the alarm on rising antibiotic resistance that is threatening health security
Please consider the below article based on data from WHO report launched today and insights from experts who work on preventing drug resistance or antimicrobial resistance. Misuse and overuse of medicines, are making disease-causing microbes drug-resistant which makes diseases or infections difficult to treat (or even untreatable). We need to save the medicines
SHARE Thursday, October 9, 2025 Tobacco-Vendor Licensing Plugs the Loopholes in Implementing Life-Saving Health Laws
Please consider the below article based on insights from health experts calling for tobacco vendor licensing laws for retailers, importers and wholesalers, so that lifesaving tobacco control and health policies and laws can be enforced. Singapore is among the countries that has successfully enforced such laws since 1998 and helped save lives. Intergovernmental meeting of global tobacco treaty (FCTC) begins next month,
SHARE Sunday, October 5, 2025 USA versus most world: Will human right to health and gender equality take primacy?
Please consider the below article. USA has torpedoed the draft Political Declaration at the 80th UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health, citing reasons that are not backed by science, evidence or rights.
Over 70% of deaths are due to NCDs and most of the major NCDs are preventable. We need to act now to save lives from preventable NCDs (like heart diseases and stroke, cancers, diabetes, etc).
SHARE Tuesday, September 30, 2025 Multi-disease elimination approach in action when services go closer to the communities
Please consider the below article on recent major initiatives to take state-of-the-art standard screening and diagnostics to the most underserved for multiple diseases. Along with this, such efforts also prioritise disease-prevention initiatives, along with linkage to treatment, care and support to those who need it for a range of disease-conditions.
We need integrated health responses. Period. One-stop service.
SHARE Friday, September 19, 2025 Breaking barriers by deploying artificial intelligence-enabled health technologies for the underserved
Please consider the below article based on ground deployment of cutting-edge WHO-recommended artificial intelligence-enabled health technologies in India and other countries for a range of diseases, including TB, breast cancer, cervical cancer, among others.
It is important to highlight that these AI-enabled health techs are taken closer to most underserved communities or at their doorstep!
SHARE Monday, September 15, 2025 Will 80th UNGA theme of Better Together unite all world leaders on safe abortion rights?
Please consider an article around 80th UN general assembly and ahead of Safe Abortion Day this month. World leaders adopted SDGs at UNGA2015 - 10 years ago, promising health (SDG3) and gender equality (SDG5). Will they take stock of progress and will accountability be there at UNGA 2025 this month?
SHARE Saturday, September 13, 2025 Call for stronger response in Asia Pacific that is home to half of global AMR burden
Please consider the below article based on insights from several experts and survivors dedicated to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which is making infections, simpler to treat earlier, difficult or impossible to treat.
Disease-causing microbes like bacteria, virus, fungi or parasites, become resistant to medicines (so they become ineffective). Drug-resistant infections or AMR is among top 10 global health threats.
SHARE Tuesday, September 9, 2025 Access to abortion is a human rights issue says UN SR on Right To Health
Ahead of 80th United Nations General Assembly, Contraception Day and Safe Abortion Day, please consider the below article based on insights from Dr Mabel who was instrumental in observing world's first Safe Abortion Day in 1990, United Nations Special Rapporteur (UN SR) on Right To Health Dr Tlaleng and CeHDI's leader Kelcey.
SHARE Wednesday, September 3, 2025 80th UNGA must act to stop regressive pushbacks against health and gender
The 80th United Nations General Assembly where world leaders will convene and SDGs review is on the agenda. Pushbacks against SDG-3 (health) and SDG-5 (gender equality) is of deep concern progress off track, and receding on some goals and targets too.
SHARE Saturday, August 30, 2025 Will Nepal's leadership on health spur more action on SDG-3 globally?
Please consider the below article. Nepal is among the least developed countries globally but due to its progress on range of human development indices, in 2026 it is on its way to do-away with this tag of least developed. Its progress on range of health indices is best in Asia Pacific for example, it is the only country in Asia Pacific (and among 4 globally) to reduce new HIV infections by 75% during 2010-2024.
SHARE Tuesday, August 26, 2025 Are health services sensitive to needs of young persons in all their diversities?
Please consider the below article based on insights from 9 youth leaders from diverse backgrounds, such as, living with hearing disability or deafness, living with HIV, indigenous peoples and violence survivors, transgender peoples, among others. When governments committed for SDGs, promise was to Leave no one behind. Time to walk the talk on this.