Senior HIV activists who have not only helped shape HIV responses on the ground over the years, but also have been living with the virus for several years, shared their personal battle against self-stigma at a press conference session hosted by The Work For Change (www.theworkforchange.org) and part

Pakistan recently lost another icon, Abdul Sattar Edhi, who died in Karachi at the age of eighty-eight. Edhi’s services for Pakistan shall be long remembered and he joins the ranks of other great South Asian icons, including the late social scientist Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan. This piece highlights the

(Based on an exclusive interview given by Nqobile Zungu, and her doctor Dr Samele Madela to CNS Citizen News Service)
I met 37 years old Nqobile Zungu, at the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) that is being held in Durban. And yes, her looks were deceptive in the sense that one could

In its own interest China should start taking keen and active interest in the solution of Kashmir problem (ii)- China should try to avoid war between nuclear India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
China should shed its false-pretenses and rather should come down from high horse and sit with India to dis

China’s heightened interest understandable due to economic corridor through POK (ii)- If China too is in denial as India on Jihadi factor, no peaceful dialogue possible on Kashmir (iii)- Islam has laid down lives of ~ one hundred thousand Jihadis for Kashmir (iv)- No solution possible on Kashmir oth

"Children are central to where we are heading for in TB control. If we aim to end TB in the next 20 years we should know the trends in infection and disease in the paediatric population and amend it," said Dr Jennifer Furin of Harvard Medical School, at a session in International TB Conference (TB 2

Without asking for retrieve of POK, recommending referendum by STOI in Kashmir, tantamount to asking second partition of India (ii)- Management and owners of Timesgroup doubly guilty of threatening territorial integrity of India.
Sunday Times of India (STOI) has crossed the ‘Laxman Rekha’ on July,

A recent UNAIDS report shows that decline in new HIV infections among adults has stalled. In 2014, key populations, including gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers and their clients, transgender people, people who inject drugs and prisoners, accounted for 35% of new HIV infe

Key lies, in not allowing Sunni Muslims to live alone, mainly through Realized Common Wealth (CW), The condolence messages for 84 killed and prayers [for early recovery of over 120 injured in terrorist attack by a Jihadi (Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel) on July, 14 the Bastille Day at Nice in France] fro

After the Arab Spring started in Middle East in 2011, Turkey was seen as an inspiration for aspiring democracies in the region. Because there was a democratic government that has leaning towards political Islam but did so in a seemingly moderate way, is a member of NATO, a growing economic powerhous

Justice begins with compassionate leadership. Compassion is more than our self-focused passion for what we want and need, but empathy, mercy, and respect for what others need. Compassion allows us to suffer together, and it is a fundamental keystone of a representative democracy and the concept of u

So much for Ban Ki-moon’s heart and possibly even more so his soul. One can only recall the quote in Matthew and the betrayal of Jesus, “When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I am in

Sub:- ‘Watan ki fikr kar nadan musibat aane wali hai, teri barbadiyon ke mashware hain aasmanon me’ (o naïve take care of the country because misfortune is going to come as conspiracies are being hatched in the heavens against mother-land)
---- The ruling BJP’s Member of Parliament Subramanian Swa

AIDS 2016, the XXI International AIDS Conference - (with the theme of 'Access Equity Rights Now') which will be held in Durban, South Africa, from 18 to 22 July 2016, marks a dramatic change in the country’s AIDS response in the 16 years since XIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2000), which wa

Demonstrations and protests are going on since Friday in Kashmir valley (after terrorist Burhan was declared killed by security forces) in which 30 civilians have been killed and over 300 injured by the firing of security forces. The security forces still do not use non-lethal bullets against civil