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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.
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?