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Advocacy Training Workshop on WHO FCTC Article 5.3 24 Aug 2013 | 11:52 am
A day-long Advocacy Training Workshop on WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 5.3 will be held in Lucknow, India, on Saturday, 7th September 2013. Several civil society and gover...
When he vomited blood one day…… 19 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
48 years old Deepak, was leading a happy normal life with his wife and 3 children. He was working in a government job as a driver in the police department in Ramgarh district of Uttarakhand when, way ...
Tuberculosis: Are Healthcare workers Tuberculosis Proof? 15 Aug 2013 | 12:39 pm
Alice Tembe, Swaziland ‘I had to choose between being deaf and being dead’, this is what Dalene von Delft, a Medical Doctor from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, said in her testimony at a two...
Living with HIV and infected with TB: The Double Struggle 14 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
Diana Esther Wangari - CNS Lying in bed at Kenyatta National hospital, Joshua Lule stared at the ceiling lost in thought. The hospital had been his home for the past three months and while the rest of...
Combating TB-HIV Co-infection 14 Aug 2013 | 08:28 am
Meena (name changed), a 35 years old mother of 3, comes from a village in district Gonda of Uttar Pradesh, India. She is living with HIV and has suffered from TB also. I met her at the antiretroviral...
Rainy season: Curse for diabetic foot 10 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
(First published in THE HINDUSTAN TIMES on Tuesday, 6th August 2013) Diabetes has proved itself a silent killer disease. Today in the world maximum numbers of the patients are suffering from this dise...
Create smoke-free zones, Government urged 9 Aug 2013 | 10:41 am
Paidamoyo Chipunza, Zimbabwe (First published in The Herald, Zimbabwe on 8 August 2013): GOVERNMENT has been urged to create 100 percent smoke-free environments to help reduce the risk of contracting....
Making air free from diseases 9 Aug 2013 | 09:58 am
Okeoghene Oghenekaro, Nigeria (First published in News Agency of Nigeria, on 6 August 2013): Bidemi, a widowed petty trader, feels her life is crumbling because all her children frequently go down wi....
Hiroshima Day: Youth vote for peace and low-carbon, no nuclear energy 7 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm
[Online poster image gallery] [हिन्दी] Over a hundred poster exhibits made on "Lessons From Japan" theme by Lucknow youth had sent a strong message on Hiroshima Day, 6th August 2013 in favour of low c...
Communal Violence: Who is to be blamed? 2 Aug 2013 | 06:12 pm
Dr Ram Puniyani A friend with dogged determination to show that the BJP is a lesser culprit of communal violence and that Congress is the major party to be blamed, listed the major communal riots in I...
