[video] Finding strength in struggle: HIV long-term survivors of India: Hope lies in you

[video] Story-telling and media engagement around AMR

Tobacco-free and nicotine-free future is a bedrock to deliver on #EndTB and SDGs

According to the latest WHO Global TB Report 2025 released a week ago, tobacco smoking is among the top-5 risk factors for the deadliest of all infectious diseases worldwide - tuberculosis (TB). In countries with alarmingly high tobacco use, like Indonesia, tobacco use is the biggest risk factor for TB. Tobacco is also among the major common risk factors for a range of other non-infectious (or non-communicable) diseases, such as heart diseases and stroke, cancers, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, among others.

Zimbabwe and Cambodia getting return on investment by addressing AMR

Right to health is a fundamental human right. There is no doubt that everyone - without any exception or exclusion - should be able to live healthily in a rights-based manner - everywhere. Along with ensuring high to health is a reality for all, it is also important to recognise health financing as a smart investment.

From shadow to light: Supporting unhoused persons to access lifesaving TB services

The risk of getting TB disease is among the highest in unhoused and other marginalised persons but the likelihood of them seeking public TB services is low – and finishing lifesaving TB therapy is even lower. The delay is long – very long – for them to get right diagnosis (if at all) – and so are the catastrophic costs which they may incur until getting correctly diagnosed. Not being able to finish lifesaving TB treatment is not helping either- the person suffers and so does the TB response - because we collectively fail to disrupt TB transmission.

Schooling ourselves to protect our present and secure our future

Let us go back in time 97 years ago and dare to imagine the plight of those who suffered with bacterial infections before the discovery of world's first antibiotic in 1928 (penicillin). Without lifesaving medicines, curable or treatable infections could become deadly - once again. Today, a lot of medicines are failing to treat infections because disease-causing bacteria, virus, fungi and/or parasites are becoming drug-resistant - largely because of human-made misuse and overuse of medicines. Choice is ours: Do we want to slip back in time when there were not enough medicines around, or would we stop misuse and overuse of medicines and use them responsibly?

Will governments make Big Tobacco pay and kick Big Polluters out from Treaty meets?

[watch the recording] As intergovernmental Treaty meetings open on climate (UNFCCC) and tobacco control (WHO FCTC), there is a growing call to make Big Tobacco pay and kick Big Polluters out of these Treaty negotiations. Experts have underpinned the critical importance of firewalling intergovernmental health and climate policy negotiations from corporate interference and called for advancing progress towards holding abusive corporations to account.

[video] Governments must prioritise accountability and urgent actions at climate and tobacco control Treaties

1st inaugural India AMR Media Awards 2025

Watch the recording of 1st inaugural India AMR Media Awards 2025

Watch the recording of 1st inaugural India AMR Media Awards 2025, which was part of 5th Annual Global Media Forum on Antimicrobial Resistance, organised ahead of World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW 2025).

2nd Global AMR Media Awards 2025

Watch the recording of 2nd Global AMR Media Awards Ceremony 2025

2nd Global AMR Media Awards Ceremony 2025 was held as part of 5th Annual Global Media Forum on Antimicrobial Resistance, ahead of World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW 2025).

[video] 5th Annual Global Media Forum ahead of World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW 2025), 2nd Global AMR Media Awards 2025 and 1st India AMR Media Awards 2025

Gateway to universal access to SRHR is human right to health

[watch the recording] The human right to health is not a privilege, it is a legal obligation - rooted in international human rights law - and must form the foundation of all efforts toward universal access, equity, and justice. Protecting, implementing, and enforcing this right is essential for the wellbeing of women, girls, and all gender-diverse peoples.

2nd SHE & Rights Media Awards 2025

Watch the recording of SHE & Rights Media Awards Ceremony at International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP 2025) in Bogota, Colombia

SHE & Rights Media Awards Ceremony at ICFP 2025

A brewing crisis: Millions of women still lack access to family planning

The landscape of sexual and reproductive health and rights is shifting: millions of women want to avoid pregnancy but are not using a modern method of contraception.

World's largest TB prize illuminates Indian Molbio’s tech innovation reaching the unreached

[Read official announcement] World's largest prize devoted to TB, the coveted Kochon Prize, was awarded to India's Molbio Diagnostics for its technological innovation which is helping over 90 governments worldwide to reach the unreached with best of multi-disease molecular diagnostics. This is the third time India won Kochon Prize with previous two recipients being 2006-head of Indian government's TB programme Dr LS Chauhan, and country's apex medical research body - Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in 2017.

Myanmar implements standardised plain packaging to curb deadly tobacco's 'appeal'

Tobacco use poses a severe burden on Myanmar’s health and economy, killing about 64,000 people each year. Myanmar has marked a significant milestone in protecting public health and advancing global tobacco control efforts with the successful implementation of standardised plain packaging on tobacco products.

Transforming teachers and teaching for adolescent health, well-being and gender equality

Having taught Physics for over 30 years to young girls, when experts called for transforming teachers and teaching for young people’s health, well-being and gender equality, it resonated strongly with me.

Preserving hard-won gains: Feminist voices on the future of gender equality

Gender equality is enshrined in the opening preamble of United Nations Charter 1945. But despite progress and some setbacks, not a single country has delivered 100% on gender equality. Is the sinister link between patriarchy, capitalism, corporate capture, religious fundamentalism, militarisation, and politics of power, the reason why progress on gender equality remains off the mark?

[video] Study proves strong impact of molecular test at primary care level versus hub-and-spoke model lab

Amidst anti-gender push, hope pins on ICFP 2025 to shift gears towards SRHRJ for all

Despite right to health and gender equality being fundamental human rights, the world is off the track from delivering on these goals in the next 62 months (by 2030). Anti-rights and anti-gender pushbacks have made the situation even more grim. Activists are pinning hope on an upcoming global meet to galvanise a stronger and equitable response to deliver on these goals.

Study proves strong impact of taking molecular TB diagnostics closer to the people

Urgent call to replace sputum microscopy completely with true point-of-care molecular tests to #FindAllTB

An important scientific study published in The Lancet shows the strong public health impact of deploying molecular diagnostics closer to the people.

5th Annual Global Media Forum on Antimicrobial Resistance and Global AMR Media Awards Ceremony 2025

[Watch the recording] 5th Annual Global Media Forum ahead of World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) would be organised on 12th November 2025 (begins 11:30AM CET). This year's WAAW is on the theme: "Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future."

WHO sounds the alarm on rising antibiotic resistance which is threatening health security

The world is heading towards widespread resistance to common antibiotics. So indicates the Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report 2025, that was launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO), cautioning that increasing resistance to essential antibiotics poses a growing threat to public health systems globally - especially in countries least equipped to handle it.

[video] It is time for accountability and action after 80th UNGA HLM re: Beijing+30 and Asia Pacific CSE meet

With 62 months left to deliver on #endTB and #endAIDS goals, SAARC TB and HIV/AIDS Centre making a difference

Tobacco vendor licensing plugs the loopholes in implementing lifesaving health laws

Before the intergovernmental global tobacco treaty meet opens next month, experts call for tobacco vendor licensing so that governments can enforce lifesaving tobacco control policies effectively, protect children and youth from misleading tobacco industry tactics and lies, and progress towards ending tobacco use. “No one must suffer from tobacco-related diseases or die of them,” rightly said Dr Tara Singh Bam, noted global health expert and Asia Pacific Director (Tobacco Control) of Vital Strategies.

USA versus most world: Will human right to health and gender equality take primacy?

[हिंदी] It was shocking to see that United States of America (USA) took a position against most other nations and went ahead to “torpedo” the draft political declaration that was about to be adopted with consensus at the 80th United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health.

SHE & Rights | It is time for accountability and action after UNGA High Level Meeting around Beijing+30

[Watch the recording] Join us on 10th October 2025 (Friday) in SHE & Rights session ahead of the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP 2025) in Bogota, Colombia, on the theme: "It is time for accountability and action after UNGA High Level Meeting around Beijing+30."

Multi-disease elimination approach in action when services go closer to the communities

Bringing health and wellbeing services closer to the communities helps breaking barriers they face in accessing them. With this driving intent, few important promising initiatives were spearheaded by the Indian government this fortnight.

Breaking barriers by deploying artificial intelligence-enabled health technologies for the underserved

Artificial intelligence is not only for the rich and famous but it is also deployed in health technologies to serve the poorest of the poor and marginalised communities – with equity and human dignity.

[podcast] Ground Zero Podcast: #FindAllTB→ #TreatAllTB→ #PreventAllTB

[video] Ground Zero: Kangra #EndTB leader Dr RK Sood walks the talk to #FindAllTB → #TreatAllTB → #PreventAllTB