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[podcast] Co-Chairs of WHO Civil Society Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance share insights

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:21:00 +0000

This Podcast features both co-chairs of first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Katherine Urbaez and Tracie Muraya.

Katherine Urbaez is a former diplomat from the Dominican Republic, who has been instrumental throughout her career in numerous negotiations and in developing public policies within various multilateral processes, with a specific focus on health, human rights, and environmental issues. She also served on the Executive Board Membership to WHO.

Tracie Muraya is the Deputy Director for Policy & Strategy for ReAct Africa. She engages with policymakers, AMR stakeholders, and national and local AMR Coordinating Committees, including at the Regional Quadripartite and Africa CDC. Tracie coordinates in-country projects in Africa which are implementing National Action Plans on AMR.

They were in conversation with Shobha Shukla, Chairperson of Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA) and CNS Executive Director.

Background piano music credit: Ms Reya Shukla Iyer and Tara Shukla Iyer.

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[podcast] Reaching the unreached people with TB services in Kangra Dharamshala

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:57:00 +0000

First podcast of 2025 features Dr Rajesh Kumar Sood, District Programme Officer, National Health Mission and District TB Officer (National TB Elimination Programme) Kangra Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is in conversation with CNS founder Managing Editor and Executive Director Shobha Shukla on the ongoing #100Days focussed campaign to #ReachTheUnreached people with best of TB diagnostics, treatment and prevention services in India.

Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by a young feminist Ms Tara Shukla Iyer from UK.

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CNS team

[podcast] Reality check on gender justice in Kyrgyzstan: Nurgul Dzhanaeva speaks

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:33:00 +0000

This podcast features Nurgul Dzhanaeva, President of the Forum of Women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, who has worked on SDG-related issues at the local, national, regional and global levels. From 2016-2019, she was instrumental in initiating the campaign “From Global to Local” which sought to integrate SDG Goal 5 – to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls – into Kyrgyzstan’s local sustainable development strategies and plans.

She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, CNS Founder Executive Director and feminist development justice leader, at the Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF 2024) in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by young feminist Ms Tara Shukla Iyer from UK.

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CNS team

[podcast] Reality check on gender justice in the Pacific: Nalini Singh of Fiji Women's Rights Movements speaks

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 12:55:00 +0000

This podcast features Nalini Singh, a noted Fiji's human rights activist and Executive Director of Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM). She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, a feminist development justice activist and CNS Founder Executive Director around the 4th Asia Pacific Feminist Forum on the theme of: Feminist world building - creative energies, collective journeys in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by young feminists Ms Tara Shukla Iyer and Ms Reya Shukla Iyer from UK.

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CNS team

[podcast] Asia Pacific not on track to end AIDS, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:31:00 +0000

This special Podcast features Dr Po-Lin Chan, Regional Advisor (HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections - STIs) at World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Office, and Dr Ishwar Gilada, who is a part of Organising Committee of 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) and Governing Council of International AIDS Society (IAS). They were in conversation with CNS Founder Executive Director and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla in Munich Germany. CNS is among the official media partners of AIDS 2024.

Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by Ms Reya Shukla Iyer from UK.

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CNS team

[podcast] 2024 Asia Pacific Feminist Forum to focus on "Feminist world-building: Creative energies, collective journeys"

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:44:00 +0000

This special Podcast features leaders from 2024 Asia Pacific Feminist Forum #APFF4 (Chiang Mai, Thailand: 12-14 September 2024). The theme of APFF4 is "Feminist world-building: Creative energies, collective journeys." Panelists include: Abia Akram, a disability rights activist and the founder and CEO of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; Eni Lestari, a migrant rights activist and the Chairperson of International Migrants Alliance; Ivy Josiah, a women's rights activist who has led Malaysia’s Women’s Aid Organisation for 20 years as its Past President and Executive Director. They are in conversation with CNS founder Executive Director and feminist leader Shobha Shukla.

For more information on APFF4, click here.
Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by a 7 years old feminist Ms Tara Shukla Iyer from UK.

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CNS team

[podcast] Are we focussing on those struggling to access health services with equity & right?

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:58:00 +0000

This podcast features Sumit Mitra, President (International Sales), Molbio Diagnostics. He is speaking in lead up to 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) on what #PutPeopleFirst means to him.

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CNS team

[podcast] #PutPeopleFirst means walking the talk on "Nothing About Us Without Us"

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:51:00 +0000

This podcast features Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, former head of Indian government's TB and HIV programmes (DDG), former South-East Asia Regional Director of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and currently serving as President-CMO of Molbio Diagnostics. He is speaking in lead up to 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) on what #PutPeopleFirst means to him.

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CNS team

[podcast] Finding all people with TB especially those more at risk and linking them to care is key to end TB

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 08:46:00 +0000

This podcast features Dr Kamal Kishore Chopra who is a senior TB expert and former Director of New Delhi TB Centre, State Training and Demonstration Centre, and also part of the leadership of TB Association of India. He is speaking in lead up to 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) on what #PutPeopleFirst means to him.

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CNS team

[podcast] AIDS responses must be grounded in human rights

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:20:00 +0000

This podcast features Dr Ishwar Gilada who had established India's first AIDS clinic in 1986 when first HIV case had got diagnosed in the country.

Dr Gilada is the longest serving HIV medical expert in India, President-Emeritus of AIDS Society of India, part of Governing Council of IAS (International AIDS Society) and 25th International AIDS Conference organising committee. He is in conversation with CNS Founder and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla.

[podcast] Perspectives of people living with HIV must be central to AIDS response

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:12:00 +0000

This podcast features UNAIDS India Country Director David Bridger who shares what #PutPeopleFirst means to him in lead up to 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) to be held in Munich, Germany. He is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, CNS founder Managing Editor and Executive Director and Chairperson of Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA).

[podcast] AMR Dialogues | Dr Sangeeta Sharma speaks on diagnostic stewardship and Antimicrobial Resistance

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:25:00 +0000

This podcast features Dr Sangeeta Sharma, Professor and Head, Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India. She is also the President of Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs. Dr Sangeeta Sharma is in conversation with CNS founder and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla (who Chairs Global AMR Media Alliance - GAMA).

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CNS team

[podcast] AMR Dialogues | Bhakti Chavan, a member of WHO Task Force of AMR Survivors

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:17:00 +0000

This podcast features Bhakti Chavan who is a part of World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Survivors. She is in conversation with CNS founder and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla. Shobha is the Chairperson of Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA).

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CNS team

[podcast] Decentralise people-centred services to find all, treat all and prevent all TB among people living with HIV

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This podcast features Dr Rajesh Kumar Sood, District Programme Officer, National Health Mission, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. He shares what #PutPeopleFirst means to him in the lead up to the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024).

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CNS team

[podcast] Are we on track to end malaria by 2030?

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 07:28:00 +0000

This podcast features insights from a range of experts who spoke in End Malaria Dialogues held around the 77th World Health Assembly of World Health Organization (WHO). Experts include: Dr Michael Adekunle Charles, CEO RBM Partnership to End Malaria; Dr Marijke Wijnroks, Head of Strategic Investment and Impact Division, The Global Fund; Sriram Natarajan, co-founder and CEO Molbio Diagnostics; Prof Maxine Whittaker, Community Representative at the Global Fund Regional Artemisinin Resistance Initiative; and CSO Platform advisor; Aloyce Urassa, Chairperson African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) Youth Advisory Council; Louis Da Gama, board member, Communities Delegation Unitaid and CSO Platform advisor; and Shobha Shukla, founder Managing Editor and Executive Director, CNS (moderator).

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CNS team

[podcast] WHO Director for HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Dr Meg Doherty in conversation with CNS

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Thu, 23 May 2024 05:28:00 +0000

In lead up to the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) in Munich, Germany, listen to this podcast featuring Dr Meg Doherty, World Health Organization (WHO) Director of Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes. She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, CNS founder, Managing Editor and Executive Director.

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CNS team

[podcast] Finding TB is central to ending TB: Prof Kogie Naidoo of CAPRISA

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Wed, 01 May 2024 03:59:00 +0000

This podcast features Prof Kogie Naidoo, Head of the Treatment Research Programme, and Deputy Director of Centre of the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). She was awarded the coveted 2013 Union Scientific Prize for her contribution to advancing TB science worldwide.

She is in conversation with Ashok Ramsarup who is among the senior-most journalists of South Africa and has served South Africa Broadcasting Corporation as senior Producer of Lotus FM Newsbreak; and other media houses for over 45 years.

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CNS team

[podcast] Dr Bornali Datta shares high impact journey of Medanta vans reaching the unreached with TB services

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:03:00 +0000

Listen to this podcast featuring Dr Bornali Datta, Director, Respiratory Medicine at Medanta, and Project Lead of Mission TB Free Haryana. She shares insights of the incredible and high-impact journey of Medanta vans since 2015 onwards of how they are reaching the unreached with WHO recommended and quality assured TB diagnostics and services in Haryana, Delhi, and other parts of India. She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, CNS founder Managing Editor and Chairperson of Global Antimicrobial Resistance Media Alliance.

#EndTBDialogues #TB #FindallTB #treatallTB #preventallTB #diagnosis #detectTB #findTB #treatTB #preventTB #drugresistance #YesWeCanEndTB #TBMukt #TBMuktBharat #TBFreeWorld #TBFreeIndia #DiagnosticDelay #CatastrophicCost #TBMuktHaryana #TBFreeHaryana #Medanta #LabonWheels #MissionTBFreeHaryana #BornaliDatta #Conversation #Dialogue

[podcast] TB diagnosis and treatment is free but people face unacceptable catastrophic costs, diagnostic delays

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:29:00 +0000

This World Health Day Podcast features Dr Susmita Chatterjee, Programme Lead - Health Economics, Health Systems Science, The George Institute for Global Health, India. She is also a Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales; DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Clinical and Public Health Intermediate Fellow; and Professor, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal University. Read this article which is referenced in the podcast "Deconstructing the economic burden of tuberculosis in India."

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[podcast] TB science simplified

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 07:02:00 +0000

TB Science Simplified podcast: Prof Urvashi B Singh explains TB diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Prof Urvashi is in-charge of Tuberculosis Division, and Professor, Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (AIIMS Delhi) is speaking in End TB Dialogues. She is also the Co-Chair of Diagnostic Committee, National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP, Government of India, and member of Diagnostic Committee, India TB Research Consortium, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and ICMR Task Force on Genital Tuberculosis. Prof Singh is in conversation with CNS Founder, Managing Editor and Executive Director Shobha Shukla.

[podcast] Find all TB → treat all TB → prevent all TB → End TB | Shobha Shukla speaks

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 06:27:00 +0000

Listen to this exclusive podcast on the theme: "Find all TB → treat all TB → prevent all TB → End TB" produced by CNS head Shobha Shukla. This is an exclusive and powerful science- and evidence-backed narrative on why critical building blocks of #EndTB agenda are: #FindAllTB, #TreatAllTB and #PreventAllTB - grounded in people-centred and human-rights-based and gender transformative approaches.

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CNS team

[podcast] Science has gifted us tools to find, treat and prevent TB but are we using them?

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 11:05:00 +0000

This podcast features Professor (Dr) Rajendra Prasad, who was conferred upon the coveted Dr BC Roy National Award by the President of India; and has been the President of all important respiratory medicine professional associations such as National College of Chest Physicians, Indian Chest Society, or Indian College of Allergy, Asthma and Applied Immunology. Earlier he has been the Director of Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute in Delhi and UP Rural Institute of Medical Sciences in Safai; former Head of the Respiratory Medicine Department of prestigious King George's Medical University (KGMU); and leads National TB Task Force for TB Elimination. He is also part of the leadership of TB Association of India, and continues to play a seminal role in shaping India's response to end TB. He spoke with CNS on sidelines of 78th National Conference of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases (NATCON) in Thrissur, Kerala, India.

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CNS team

[podcast] With determination and persistence we can transform #EndTB dreams into reality

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:07:00 +0000

This podcast features Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva who is speaking in CNS INSPIRE series, which features those who have done commendable work in helping shape responses to improve public health and gender equity. Dr Sachdeva has earlier led India's TB and AIDS programmes, has been the former Southeast Asia Regional Director of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), and currently leads Molbio Diagnostics as President - Chief Medical Officer. He is in conversation with CNS founder Executive Director and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla, who is a noted feminist and development justice leader.

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CNS team

[podcast] Why cannot all people in need have access to best of TB tests and treatments?

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:21:00 +0000

In this podcast, Manitosh Ghildiyal, TB and HIV human rights activist, shares his personal lived experience with HIV as well as TB - and how he is advocating for people-centred responses to end TB and end AIDS. Why cannot all people-in-need get better tests and new shorter and more effective treatments for TB? he asks.

[podcast] Ending inequity is imperative to end TB and deliver on #HealthForAll

bobbyramakant@gmail.com (CNS www.citizen-news.org) — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:25:00 +0000

This podcast features Sumit Mitra, a thought leader on reaching the unreached with best of evidence-based diagnostics and health services, and President of Molbio Diagnostics (makers of Truenat). He is speaking at the World Social Forum (WSF 2024) in Kathmandu, Nepal, in a session entitled "Ending inequity is imperative if we are to end TB and deliver on health for all." This WSF 2024 session is being held in Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal.

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CNS team