CNS Live with Dr Nittaya Phanuphak on key population led health services and progress towards ending AIDS by 2030

Register for CNS Live session on 9th June

Join us in CNS Live session with Dr Nittaya Phanuphak on latest updates on AIDS and co-infections and co-morbidities, and importance of key population led services to deliver on SDG goals and targets, on 9th June 2025, Monday at 11am Thailand time.

Despite being preventable and curable cervical cancer remains 4th biggest cancer in women

Cervical cancer (cancer of the cervix) is preventable and curable, only if it is detected early and managed effectively. Yet it is the 4th most common cancer among women worldwide, with the disease occurring in 660,000 women and claiming the lives of 350,000 women in 2022 worldwide, as per the World Health Organization (WHO).

Celebrating those who courageously stand with public health and human rights despite tobacco industry interference

photo courtesy: HealthTVonline.com

Before world leaders meet at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025 at the High-Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), it is important to underline that the major common risk factor of most NCDs is tobacco and nicotine use. Tobacco is also a major risk factor for deadliest infectious disease TB (and COVID-19). Unless we decimate (or eliminate) such risk factors, how will we deliver on the promises enshrined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030?

Commitment to end tobacco must translate to bold actions on the ground

Commitment to end tobacco must translate to bold actions on the ground, said Dr Tara Singh Bam. He exhorted the new government of Indonesia to sign and ratify the global tobacco treaty (formally called the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control or WHO FCTC) in the interest of the health and wellbeing of its people.

Toxic politics of selling addiction to children

[हिंदी] The same deceptive tricks and tactics are used by industries that profit from getting our children addicted to ultra-processed foods, high sugar products, tobacco and nicotine. Experts from the United Nations health agency – the World Health Organization (WHO) and Corporate Accountability, call for concerted efforts from the governments to put people before profit, and hold industries that do the reverse (prioritise profit over health) accountable.

SHE & Rights Media Awards 2024-2025

Watch 1st Edition of SHE & Rights Media Awards Ceremony 2024-2025 as part of WHA78 Side Event: "Delivering on UHC in an era of pushback against gender equality and human right to health"

Point-of-care health technologies make a difference when deployed at point-of-need

Vaccines (sitting on a shelf) do not save lives, but vaccination does. Only when people can access vaccines and get vaccinated in a people-centred manner, can we yield desired public health outcomes. Same goes for medicines or diagnostics or other disease prevention tools.

A for Accountability and Audit for TB deaths is missing in #EndTB response

When TB is preventable and curable then why over 1.1 million people died of it worldwide in 2023 (as per the latest WHO Global TB Report 2024)? Even one TB death is a death too many. Most of these deaths took place in low- and middle-income countries. Unless we find what went wrong and what we could have done better, how would we ever improve TB programmes in order to avert these untimely deaths?

[video] Audrey Galawu, Zimbabwe | Special Mention Prize | She & Rights Media Awards 2024-2025

[video] Babacar Sene, Senegal | Special Mention Prize | She & Rights Media Awards 2024-2025

[video] Betty Herlina, Indonesia | Special Mention Prize | She & Rights Media Awards 2024-2025

[video] Hamu Madzedze, Zimbabwe | Special Mention Prize | She & Rights Media Awards 2024-2025

[video] Yecenu Sasetu, Nigeria | Special Mention Prize | She & Rights Media Awards 2024-2025

[video] Kalpana Acharya | 3rd Prize winner | She & Rights Media Awards 2024-2025

[video] Catherine Murombedzi, Zimbabwe | 2nd Prize winner | She & Rights Media Awards 2024-2025

[video] Ojoma Akor, Nigeria | 1st Prize winner | She & Rights Media Awards 2024-2025

[video] Delivering on UHC in an era of pushback against gender equality and human right to health

WHA78 Side Event: Delivering on UHC in an era of pushback against gender equality and human right to health

 

Welcome to hybrid Side Event around 78th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) on 22nd May, 3:30pm Geneva/ CEST time (90 minutes duration) on the theme: "Delivering on UHC in an era of pushback against gender equality and human right to health."

[video] Why is 28th May important?

[video] Live Press Conference of 10th Indonesian Conference on Tobacco Control (ICTOH 2025)

Conflicts and crises intensify the need for gender equality and health equity

[हिंदी] Conflicts and humanitarian crises significantly exacerbate pre-existing gender inequalities for women, girls and gender diverse populations, leading to increased vulnerability to sexual and gender-based violence, reproductive health complications, and mental health challenges, alongside reduced access to basic needs like healthcare and shelter and livelihoods.

[video] Lifesaving importance of cancer screening and linkage to care for women with HIV

On May Day, stand with striking community health workers across Asia Pacific

Public service workers from Kerala to Aotearoa demand dignity, fair pay, and labour rights

This May Day, Public Services International calls on unions, allies, and the public across the Asia-Pacific to stand in solidarity with the region’s most vital yet undervalued workers — community health workers. From India’s frontline ASHA workers to New Zealand’s home support workforce, thousands are rising up against exploitation and demanding the recognition and respect they deserve.

Health equity and inclusion remain fundamental to #endMalaria

Governments have promised to end malaria by 2030. With around five and a half years left to eliminate the vector-borne disease worldwide, it is alarming that progress is off the mark. More worrying is that whatever progress has happened towards ending malaria, can be reversed. Without adequate science-backed and strategic investments and actions, how will countries that have ended malaria, keep the burden below the elimination levels? Climate change worsens the crisis as disease patterns shift.

[video] Inclusion and equity must be central to #EndMalaria and #HealthForAll efforts

[video] Impact on gender justice and health during conflicts or other humanitarian crises

We cannot turn a blind eye to preventable epidemics if we are to deliver on SDGs

The epidemic-proportion diseases and untimely deaths caused by tobacco use are entirely preventable. Likewise, we have science-based tools and approaches to find all TB cases, treat all of them and prevent transmission of the disease. When even one TB or tobacco death is a death too many, how can one explain 1.25 million TB deaths and over 8 million tobacco-related deaths in 2023 alone? How can TB disease, that is entirely preventable (and curable), become the deadliest infectious disease worldwide?

[video] 28th May is International Day of Action for Women's Health | www.may28.org

SHE & Rights | Impact on gender justice and health during conflicts or other humanitarian crises

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The seventh session of SHE & Rights (Sexual Health with Equity & Rights) will be organised on the theme: "Impact on gender justice and health during conflicts or other humanitarian crises." It will also feature highlights of The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health report released earlier this month.

Gender justice and health equity are inextricably linked but are programmes linked?

The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health launched a new report in April 2025 on "achieving gender justice for global health equity" in Delhi, India. The report reflects how a lack of understanding of the link between gender and health is negatively affecting health outcomes.

Will all children be born free of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis-B by 2030?

[हिंदी] Despite knowing how to prevent vertical transmission (from mother to the baby) of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis-B infections, we are failing with every child who is born with either of these preventable infections. We have the science-backed tools to ensure that all children are born free of these three infections. Failing to deploy them with utmost effectiveness is highly unacceptable.

High-Level Roundtable to mark World Health Day: Strengthening South-South partnerships for improving access to health technologies developed by Global South for achieving UHC

Half of women cannot make decisions about their reproductive health and bodily autonomy

In the lead up to 2025 World Health Day, it is important for us to review why almost half of women are not able to make decisions pertaining to their own reproductive health and bodily autonomy.