Corona virus disease, sexual and reproductive health and rights for all (including sex workers) and SDGs in Asia and the Pacific


This Podcast features Kay Thi Win, Regional Coordinator of Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers (APNSW) and Alexandra Johns, Executive Director of Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (APA). Special voices of Liz Hilton of Empower Foundation of Thailand, Meena Saraswathi Seshu of SANGRAM in India, also enrich the discussion and bring forth key issues.

#COVID19, sexual & reproductive health & rights for all (incl. sex workers) & SDGs in Asia Pacific


5th #APCRSHR10 Dialogues featured Kay Thi Win of APNSW and Alexandra Johns of APA

World TB Day message from head of India's national TB programme


Is HIV epidemic outpacing the AIDS response in Asia Pacific?

[हिंदी] With nine months left to meet the HIV-related 2020 targets, we are not on track to end AIDS by 2030. In Asia Pacific region, despite unprecedented progress initially in scaling up HIV programmes for prevention, treatment, care and support (in different countries and key populations), we are still lagging way behind. The UNAIDS (Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS) report succinctly observes "Asia and the Pacific boasts some of the earliest successes in responding to the HIV epidemic. The region's response, however, is highly uneven, and several national HIV programmes are not keeping pace with their growing HIV epidemics. Creeping complacency in other countries risks squandering gains made thus far."

Urgent unprecedented actions are required to be on track to prevent HIV, STIs and progress on gender equality


This Podcast features Dr Ishwar Gilada, International AIDS Society (IAS) Governing Council member from Asia and the Pacific and President of AIDS Society of India.

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Urgent & unprecedented actions required to be on track to prevent HIV & STIs | #APCRSHR10 Dialogues


Listen to two infectious disease experts on responding effectively to corona virus disease (COVID-19)


This Podcast features two infectious disease experts: Dr R Sajith Kumar, Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases and Head of Medical Education, Government Medical College Kottayam Kerala (India) and Dr Trupti Gilada-Baheti, Infectious Disease expert at Unison Medicare and Research Centre, Mumbai (India).

#Coronavirus disease (#COVID19): #InfectiousDisease experts from #Kerala & #Mumbai share insights



Corona virus disease (COVID-19) webinar: Connect with experts on 16th March

4th #APCRSHR10 Dialogues featured Dr Ishwar Gilada, IAS (International AIDS Society) Governing Council member (Asia Pacific)

Universal access to sexual and reproductive health services is a human rights imperative

(हिंदी) The Asia Pacific region is home to more than half of the global population and many low income countries. While the region is witnessing rapid economic growth, gender inequalities persist and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services are far from being available to all. In the lead up to this year's International Women's Day and the forthcoming 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR10) in Cambodia, CNS Managing Editor Shobha Shukla spoke with Tomoko Fukuda, Regional Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation for East & South-East Asia and Oceania Region, on advancing gender equality and universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in this region.

Universal and rights-based access to sexual and reproductive health services is key for SDGs


This Podcast features Ms Tomoko Fukuda, Regional Director of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) for the East and South-East Asia and Oceania Region (ESEAOR).

"No stepping out" is the life-influencing message of breast cancer "thriver": International Women's Day special

I was born and brought in a happy family in New Delhi. I had a twin sister and a younger brother.  Both my parents were working. I graduated from Hindu College, Delhi University in 1977 and went to Peoples’ Friendship University in Moscow (erstwhile USSR) for an integrated course in Geology. Finally, back home again, I did my Ph.D in Geochemistry. After getting married I stayed in Eastern parts of India and for the first time saw the economic and social difficulties that I had never come across in Delhi.

Universal rights-based access to sexual and reproductive health services is key for SDGs


People with HIV in urban Zimbabwe prefer individual care at a health facility

Personal preferences should drive the scale up of differentiated antiretroviral therapy models