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Will The Drive To Find-Treat-Prevent TB Continue Till We End TB? – OpEd

Despite being the most populous district of Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh in India, Kangra has also led from the front in caring for largest...

13.01.2025 8

Eurasia Review

Shobha Shukla

Engaging Youth In Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance To Protect Health And Food Security – OpEd

Youth are critical change-makers not only as future prescribers and users of antimicrobials but also as influencers of the behaviour of their...

15.12.2024 3

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Shobha Shukla

Failure To Find All TB Cases Defeats Us In #endTB Efforts – OpEd

If we fail to find all cases of an infectious disease (and put them on care), then it will keep spreading. “We are not able to find all TB cases as...

10.12.2024 4

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Shobha Shukla

Reaching The Unreached To Find Missing TB Cases – OpEd

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has,” had said the...

02.12.2024 3

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Shobha Shukla

Medicines Save Lives But Not When They Stop Working – OpEd

Despite dealing with drug-resistant infections herself since birth and being fully aware of the looming danger of running out of options to treat...

30.11.2024 6

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Shobha Shukla

Antimicrobial Resistance Is Not A Silent Pandemic – OpEd

Antimicrobial Resistance directly kills more than 1 million people and is associated with almost 5 million deaths every year, that are expected to...

25.11.2024 5

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Shobha Shukla

Decades Of Failure To End TB And Tobacco Use – OpEd

Despite strong scientific and community-based evidence to support tobacco and TB control, 1.1 million people died of TB in 2023 and over 8 million...

20.11.2024 6

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Shobha Shukla

Inconvenient Question: Science Is Gifting Us New HIV Prevention Tools But Is It Expanding Choices For The People? – OpEd

Any new HIV prevention method is not meant to sit on the shelf but to be used by the people who need it to protect themselves from HIV. We have to...

14.11.2024 5

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Shobha Shukla

Firewall Gender Equality From Threats Like Anti-Rights Geneva Consensus Declaration – OpEd

Trump’s earlier tenure as President of the United States was marred by the infamous jolt to abortion rights and broader sexual and...

11.11.2024 3

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Shobha Shukla

Hospital-Acquired Infections Are Fuelling Antimicrobial Resistance – OpEd

When we go to seek healthcare in hospitals or other healthcare settings, getting infected with hospital-acquired infections instead, is not

30.10.2024 5

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Shobha Shukla

Young People Do Not Want A Future With Looming Threat Of Antimicrobial Resistance – OpEd

Who would we ever want to deal with infections that are difficult (or impossible) to treat! Young people are right when they call on world leaders...

21.10.2024 2

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Shobha Shukla

HIV Response Under Lens Of Indigenous Rights – OpEd

It is alarming to note that as per UNAIDS data the annual number of new HIV infections in the Latin American countries increased by 9% between 2010...

16.10.2024 4

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Shobha Shukla

Are We Delivering New HIV Prevention Tools With Speed, Scale And Equity? – OpEd

Imagine failing 1.3 million times in a year: Failure to ensure that everyone has access to prevention options to protect oneself from HIV...

15.10.2024 4

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Shobha Shukla

Are We On The Path To End AIDS By 2030? – OpEd

The reality is a mix of YES and NO. While the facts and figures shared in the latest report by UNAIDS reveal that as a world we are NOT already on...

03.10.2024 5

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Shobha Shukla

Feminism Is The Bedrock For A Socially Just And Ecologically Sustainable World – OpEd

Recently, over 500 feminist leaders from 38 countries across Asia and the Pacific region gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand at the 4th Asia Pacific...

19.09.2024 5

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Shobha Shukla

Rocking Chair Syndrome Gripping The TB Response? – OpEd

Akin to a rocking chair that moves forwards and backwards without any real progress, we cannot assume busy TB programmes which may appear to have a...

11.09.2024 5

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Shobha Shukla

One Step Towards Making The World Free Of TB – OpEd

Let us share an old story you might have read it already. But guiding lights always guide. This is one of them for us: “Once upon a time, there was...

04.09.2024 4

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Shobha Shukla

Feminist World-Building: Creative Energies, Collective Journeys – OpEd

… So goes the theme of the 4th Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) which will be held in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand next month. This theme is a...

02.09.2024 6

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Shobha Shukla

Move From Rhetoric To Action On #PutPeopleFirst – OpEd

Transformative empowerment is mostly not given by ‘experts from the outside,’ but happens when the most affected people themselves rise to take...

27.08.2024 4

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Shobha Shukla

No One Is Safe From Drug-Resistant Microbes Until Everyone Is Safe – OpEd

“No one is safe until everyone is safe,” said Dr Umesh Dahal, Director General, Department of Livestock Services, Government of Nepal. He was...

22.08.2024 4

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Shobha Shukla

Reaching Unreached Migrants In Unorganised Workforce With Health Services – OpEd

According to the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Government of India, the workers in the unorganised sector constitute about 93% of the total...

20.08.2024 6

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Shobha Shukla

AIDS Deaths Declining Globally Except In Eastern Europe And Central Asia

AIDS-related deaths have declined worldwide except in Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. The latest data from joint United Nations programme...

15.08.2024 3

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Shobha Shukla

The Power Of Profit: People-Led Social Enterprises – OpEd

While community-led organisations are playing a critical role in the people-centred delivery of HIV prevention, care and treatment services,...

06.08.2024 5

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Shobha Shukla

Youth-Led Initiatives Spark Hope For Children And Adolescents Living With HIV – OpEd

“As a young person living with HIV, I had self-stigmatised myself due to the fear of discrimination… fear of discrimination if I dare disclose my...

31.07.2024 3

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Shobha Shukla

Alarm Rings In Asia Pacific For Not Making U-Equals-U And HIV Prevention Accessible To All – OpEd

The latest 2024 data from United Nations joint programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) show that highest number of people who got newly infected with HIV in...

25.07.2024 3

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Shobha Shukla

Advanced HIV Disease Threatens To Wither Away The Gains Made In Fight Against AIDS – OpEd

No one needs to die of AIDS because, thanks to science, lifesaving antiretroviral therapy and viral suppression can gift all people living with HIV...

22.07.2024 9

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Shobha Shukla

We Have More Infection-Prevention Options Now But Are They Actual Choices For The People? – OpEd

Scientific research and development has thankfully increased the number of prevention options we have today to stop the spread of several...

19.07.2024 4

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Shobha Shukla

Putting People First Means Following Gandhi’s Talisman – OPED

What can be a better explanation of what #PutPeopleFirst means than what was explained so candidly by Mahatma Gandhi. He had said: “I will give you...

17.07.2024 4

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Shobha Shukla

Will #PutPeopleFirst Mantra Drive HIV Responses? – OpEd

Science has gifted us proven tools to stop the spread of HIV infection, as well as to ensure that all people living with HIV live healthy and...

10.07.2024 2

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Shobha Shukla