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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.
SHARE Friday, August 22, 2025 Will world leaders at UNGA act on urgent interconnected threats posed by NCDs and AMR?
Please consider the below article ahead of 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 2025) next month where UN High Level Meeting on NCDs would take place. But draft text is very weak and disappointing which would be up for the discussion next month will world leaders at UNGA act on urgent interconnected threats posed by NCDs and AMR? Read insights from AMR and NCD survivors and other experts.
SHARE Wednesday, August 20, 2025 Rohingya women carry not just a story of pain but a plan for change
Please consider the below article based on insights from a young rohingya woman on status of health and gender equality. Governments have promised to deliver on health for all and gender equality by 2030 (SDG-3 and SDG-5) where no one is left behind. She questions why the health and gender programmes and other determinants are not addressed equitably for Rohingya?
SHARE Tuesday, August 5, 2025 Prevention revolution and policy harmonisation are critical to end AIDS
Please consider the below article based on insights from 3 public health leaders (2 from key populations and communities). As per latest UNAIDS 2025 report data (and compared to 2024 report data), there is hardly any change in number of new HIV infections globally in 2023 when compared to 2024 levels (1.3 million each year). Same goes for AIDS-related deaths in 2023 and 2024 (630,000 each year). Business as usual MUST END
SHARE Monday, August 4, 2025 Protect the lifelines of youth and community-led HIV programmes
Please consider the below article ahead of International Youth Day. Young people living with HIV (and some of them were born with HIV) came together to call for youth-led, rights-based and gender transformative health and social welfare responses. UN says "community-led programmes are lifelines of the HIV response". Let us protect these lifelines.
SHARE Sunday, August 3, 2025 Person-centred care is the gateway to health for all
Health is a fundamental human right, but reality on the ground is often farthest from this. Kindly consider the below article where noted public health expert shares his experience and learning that instead of clinical approach, we need person-centred care model to reform healthcare service delivery model so that we can reach those currently unreached with equity and rights-based manner.
SHARE Saturday, August 2, 2025 Remove systemic blockers to enable access for women to economic and labour markets
Please consider the below article based on insights from a range of feminist leaders who unequivocally call for removing systemic discrimination, disadvantages and patriarchal barriers that prevent women and gender diverse peoples from accessing economic and labour markets in the first place. Governments agreed this month on women's acces to economic and labour markets, but how can we achieve this without removing barriers?
SHARE Monday, July 21, 2025 Reforming global financial architecture is critical for gender equality and right to health
Please consider the below article based on insights from noted feminist and development justice leader Sai Jyothirmai Racherla. She strongly advocates for gender-transformative reformation of global financial architecture without which we cannot make much progress on gender equality and right to health. For example, countries in Global South end up servicing debt & taking resources away from public services for health...
SHARE Wednesday, July 16, 2025 Richest 1% people have enough new wealth to end annual poverty 22 times over
Please consider the below article. A recent Oxfam report shows that since 2015 the top 1% people in the world have amassed US$ 33.9 Trillion in new wealth which is enough to end annual poverty 22 times over. Imagine the inequalities and injustices that plague our so-called 'world order'. Unless we address this, how will we deliver on a range of health or gender equality targets such as to end AIDS or end gender inequality
SHARE Thursday, July 10, 2025 Cambodia is 2nd Asian country to roll out long-acting injectable HIV-prevention option
Please consider an important article based on interview with UN head in Cambodia of joint programme on HIV/AIDS. She speaks about first-ever rollout of long-acting and injectable medicine (cabotegravir) for HIV prevention in Cambodia - which is 2nd country now to do so in Asian region (after Thailand). Offering the full range of science-based HIV prevention options for people to choose from as per their own contexts & needs
SHARE Friday, July 4, 2025 Will governments firewall public health from tobacco industry's lies and deceptive tactics?
Please consider the below article based on key highlights of latest WHO report launched ~week ago and a strong declaration adopted to call for stopping tobacco industry interference in public policy AND holding industry legally and financially liable for the harm it has caused to human health and lives and our planet. Global tobacco treaty is legally binding treaty (WHO FCTC) Article 5.3 & 19 give govt power to save lives
SHARE Thursday, July 3, 2025 40 years back when first few people in Mumbai and Bangkok were diagnosed with HIV
Please consider the below article based on insights from 2 longest-serving HIV medical experts in India and Thailand - who had diagnosed first few people with HIV 40 years back (1985). They both have contributed immensely to AIDS response since then but world is not on track to end AIDS by 2030. We need to follow the science and ensure that HIV responses get on track to meet the goals.
SHARE Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Gender equality and human rights are indivisible, foundational and unconditional
Please consider the below article based on insights from several survivors of gender inequality and violence and rights-violations and other experts including UN Rapporteur on Right to Health who rightly says, that rights are indivisible, foundational and unconditional.
SHARE Monday, June 23, 2025 Finding strength in struggle for gender equality and human rights
Please consider the below article as this year marks 30 years of promises that governments committed to by adopting Beijing Platform For Action in 1995. There is some progress but still a long walk to delivering on them all.
Delivering on these promises is fundamental to universal health coverage as well as SDGs,
SHARE Friday, June 20, 2025 Design health services around people, not the disease
Please consider the below article based on insights from several experts who call for designing health services around people, and not the disease. They call for person-centred approaches to serve people's healthcare needs and take services closer to the unreached people with equity and rights,
SHARE Thursday, June 19, 2025 Legalising key population led health services in Thailand is a gamechanger
Please consider the below article based on insights from Dr Praphan Phanuphak who had diagnosed first 3 HIV cases in Thailand (1985) and since then has played a defining role in shaping science-based HIV responses in Thailand, Asia Pacific as well as globally.