‘COVID-19 brought realization of scale of NTDs, but also obscured them’

July 12, 2023

Dr Kishor Wasan is a Co-Director and Co-Founder, Neglected Global Diseases Initiative at the University of British Columbia. He is credited with developing an...

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‘Tuberculosis can affect everybody, as like COVID it’s an airborne disease’

May 29, 2023

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Dr Suvanand Sahu is the Deputy Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership, a global partnership committed to eliminating Tuberculosis as a public health...

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‘Private healthcare dominates India’s medical landscape’

May 5, 2023

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Prof Sanjay Zodpey, the President of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), stresses that an effective public health system is key to improving...

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‘Tuberculosis has been known to mankind since 20,000 years ago’

March 24, 2023

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Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva is the Regional Director for South East Asia of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), a global...

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‘Our cities need walking and cycling paths to promote healthy living’

February 13, 2023

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Dr. Chandrakant Lahariya is a noted physician and public health and policy expert. He is the founder-director of the Foundation For People-Centric Health...

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More children in need of humanitarian assistance than at any other time since World War II

January 24, 2023

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UNICEF identifies eleven countries facing emergencies that need more attention and support in 2023 With crises, conflict and displacement, disease outbreaks...

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‘Ending Zero-Covid policy was like flipping a pancake’

January 24, 2023

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Qian Sun, a Chinese freelance journalist based in Berlin, describes the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak in her country as severe. In an interview, she tells...

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‘India is better prepared for the next pandemic’

January 17, 2023

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Neeraj Jain is the Country Director of Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) India, an international, nonprofit global health organization based...

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‘We take great care of our physical well-being, but do little for our mental health’

January 12, 2023

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Komal Narang is a counsellor and mind-body therapist at Anna Chandy & Associates. She also holds certifications as a trauma therapist and a transactional...

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‘Genetic factors are not primary cause of cancer, lifestyle is’

January 3, 2023

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Dr Sameer Kaul, one of India’s leading surgical oncologists, terms the lifestyle as a major contributor to cancer than genetic susceptibility. The simple...