CNS: December 2024

CNS wishes you a very happy 2025

Looking back at over 250 articles published on CNS (English, Hindi) in 2024 (and via CNS news wire syndication network worldwide), we are delighted to say that each of them (and the issues they focussed on) was so very important. Our heartfelt thanks to all those who shared their insights, analysis, reflections and science, evidence and rights-based viewpoints.

Looking back at CNS audio podcasts of 2024 on a range of issues around health and development justice, that streamed via CNS on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox and other podcast streaming platforms, here is a list of top 10!

Looking back at top conferences/ meetings or other events covered by CNS in 2024 on a range of issues around health and development justice, here is a list of top ones! (based on the popularity of the CNS conference coverage).

Looking back at over 150 online sessions (such as, Gender Equality Talks Live, End TB Dialogues, End Malaria Dialogues, SDG Talks Live, Global Media Forum on Antimicrobial Resistance, AIDS 2024 Affiliated independent event, Global Media Briefing before UNHLM on AMR, SHE & Rights (Sexual Health with Equity and Rights), among others) hosted by CNS in 2024 and live streamed, we are delighted to say that each of them (and the issues they focussed on) was so very important. Our heartfelt thanks to all the panelists and participants.

Read 5 more top highlights of CNS and CNS-hosted Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA) from what we did in 2024. We are grateful to all partners who engaged us in policy, advocacy and communications around health, gender and development justice over the years. Here are some more highlights of what we did in 2024:

Faith can move mountains. Thanks to all partners and supporters who believed in us and helped us do what we dare to do best. We look forward to continued solidarity and support in 2025 and beyond.

An anti-rights movement that is surreptitiously spreading its tentacles under the garb of 'protecting family values' is threatening gender equality, even as human rights activists call upon ending gender-based violence and protecting sexual and reproductive health and rights of all girls and women and other gender diverse communities.

Black Angels remind us of centuries of injustices plaguing the TB response

"Taking Care: Black Angels of Seaview Hospital" exhibit is open for all at Staten Island Museum till 29 December 2024

[हिंदी | watch the video photo-story with narration of CNS visit to exhibit] "Death from TB is caused by human choice. It is caused by human-built systems. And so that is terrifying and horrifying and deeply upsetting. It means we are not doing a good job of assigning equal value to every human life," had said the famous American author John Green at a panel discussion during United Nations General Assembly last year.

[watch the launch of AMR toolkit for youth engagement]

Youth are critical change-makers not only as future prescribers and users of antimicrobials but also as influencers of the behaviour of their peers, parents and community. Strengthening youth engagement in our response to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can go a long way in addressing this global threat that is directly responsible for 1.27 million deaths and contributes to nearly 5 million deaths per year, apart from causing a loss of USD 3.4 trillion annually to global economy.