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Right to health and gender equality are fundamental human right for all - where no one is left behind, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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.
AMR and NCDs warrant urgent attention to address interconnected threats they pose to global health, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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.
Gender equality and right to health must be guaranteed to everyone - where no one is left behind, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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?
Antimicrobial Resistance - a global health threat today - can be PREVENTED., From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 16, 2025
United action is warranted for antimicrobial resistance which threatens everyone Please consider an important article based on insights from 13 leaders (and few survivors) of antimicrobial resistance or AMR where medicines stop working because of drug resistance. Let us all save the medicines that protect us,
Deliver on gender equality and human rights and all other SDGs, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Not capitalist but economically, socially and ecologically just order can deliver on SDGs Please consider the article below based on insights from three leaders from gender diverse communities who call for a just world order which is socially, economically and ecologically just and sustainable. Kind regards, bobby/ CNS
End AIDS now., From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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.
Reform the healthcare service delivery model based on person-centred care approach, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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.
Economic justice is critical to achieve development justice where no one is left behind, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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?
Asia Pacific region needs a HIV prevention revolution: HIV new infection rates decline has flatlined, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 27, 2025
Will we-the-quails unite to lift the net or wither away the gains made in AIDS response? Please consider the below article based on the latest UN report on global AIDS update 2025 released few days ago - and insights from 3 leaders in regional HIV response.
Shobha Shukla, SDG-3 Lead Discussant at UN HLPF 2025 says NO HEALTH WITHOUT RIGHTS, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 22, 2025
No health without rights, says Shobha Shukla SDG-3 Lead Discussant at UN meet Please consider the below article based on intervention made in UN HQ at intergovernmental meet to review SDG-3 (health and wellbeing) by Shobha Shukla, who was the official Lead Discussant on SDG-3 at this meet.
Development justice framework is critical to deliver on SDGs, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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 More Sharing        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
No one needs to get newly infected with HIV because we have science-based range of Combination HIV prevention options which can be made accessible to all, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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
It is time to make big tobacco pay, endorse now: www.makeBigTobaccoPay.org, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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
(L to R) Dr Ishwar Gilada (India), Dr Praphan Phanuphak (Thailand), From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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.
Human rights are indivisible, foundational and unconditional, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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.
Gender equality is a bedrock for advancing progress towards all other SDGs goals and targets and global peace, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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,
Take lab to the unreached people and serve them with equity and rights, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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,
Key population or community-led health services are critical to end AIDS and make progress towards delivering on SDGs, From Uploaded
SHARE More Sharing        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.

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