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| #1 | 4/3/2024 | The chasm between TB and HIV continues (Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider the below article based on insights from global health leaders in the past 2 decades on TB and HIV joint responses (as people with HIV are at high TB risk, and TB is the biggest killer of people with HIV). Despite TB being preventable and curable, how is this acceptable? |
| #2 | 3/5/2024 | May you be the woman you want to be in a man's world (Citizen News Service - CNS) To mark 2024 International Women's Day, please consider this article based upon insights, analysis and advocacy for gender justice. All governments have promised to achieve gender equality by 2030 but progress is sketchy at best. A lot more work needs to be done to achieve gender equality globally. |
| #3 | 10/29/2023 | Outing policies being passed by school districts will cause more more harm than good
(Angela May) Some of my own experiences growing up in a fundamentalist home as a queer individual. The outing policies these school districts are proposing will put children in danger.1  |
| #4 | 8/12/2023 | Long walk to transgender rights and gender equality (Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider the below article based on interviews with two leading transgender rights advocates who assert that despite progress there is a very long way to go in terms of gender equality for transgender people. Most governments see 'gender equality' with a lens of sex binary (man or woman), and lot more work needs to happen to ensure social inclusion and human rights mean the same for trans people too. |
| #5 | 8/8/2023 | State Superintendent of Public Instruction Thrown Out of Public Meeting
(Carl Petersen) The Chino Valley Unified School District showed a lack of respect for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond as he spoke on behalf of the safety of LGBTQ+ students.1 |
| #6 | 7/23/2023 | Midway to Agenda 2030: Why are we off the track on gender equality? (Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider the below article based upon interviews with those struggling to advance gender equality: In 2015, our governments promised to achieve gender equality by 2030. This month in July 2023, it marks half-way point on the way to Agenda 2030 (UN SDGs). But progress is OFF THE TRACK on gender equality - rather massive challenges remain. |
| #7 | 3/18/2023 | Blunting of AIDS epidemic: It's time for zero-complacency and stronger action
(Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider the below article based on insights by key leaders who have contributed over 20-30 years in the fight against AIDS. We have made a significant progress indeed in helping millions of people living with HIV lead a normal healthy life and reducing AIDS deaths - but this is not enough as new infections are happening and even one AIDS death, is a death too many. Last mile needs stronger action, not complacency1 |
| #8 | 3/17/2023 | Is HIV self-test among the missing links to reach the #endAIDS goal? (Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider the below article based on call given by HIV medical experts and researchers to include HIV self-testing in AIDS programmes of all countries that do not include it yet (Only 98 countries include HIV self-testing and 52 do it routinely. India is not one of them yet). Self-testing for pregnancy, COVID-19, or diabetes, has yielded positive public health impact. There is scientific evidence HIV self-tests work. |
| #9 | 2/24/2023 | Becoming Behavior
(Alan Hodge) Today's stretch goal: realizing very few of us fit either binary stereotype, and being happy about it.11 |
| #10 | 11/30/2022 | ACLU and LWV Facilitating Rape of Women in U.S. Prisons
(Kathleen Murphy) It is one thing not to know. But to deliberately ignore something or actively work to cover up a crime against humanity is an entirely different thing. You be the judge: Should convicted violent sex-offenders be allowed to keep their male genitalia when they claim transgender status to be housed in women's prisons?1 |
| #11 | 11/29/2022 | Closing window of opportunity to save the medicines that save us from sexually transmitted infections (Citizen News Service - CNS) This article has insights from global experts who raise the concern on rising antimicrobial resistance among those microbes that cause sexually transmitted infections. |
| #12 | 11/19/2022 | "Respect for Marriage?" Not Really.
(Thomas Knapp) Actual respect for marriage would involve getting both federal and state governments completely out of the business of deciding who can be, or is, married. Not just "on the basis of the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals," but completely.1 |
| #13 | 11/7/2022 | Will global family planning meet galvanise governments to deliver on gender equality? (Citizen News Service - CNS) All governments had committed to ensure gender equality by 2030 but progress on gender justice was abysmal even before the COVID-19 pandemic in most nations. There was some progress and sketchy but surely not on track. With the jolt of COVID-19, the challenge has only become more difficult. Before the global family planning meet opens, here is an article with insights from four leaders, |
| #14 | 10/24/2022 | Are HIV programmes missing the young who need them the most? (Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider this article based on the latest UN report and insights from few leaders on the challenges confronting the efforts to end AIDS by 2030 as promised by all our governments. 26% of new HIV infections are happening in the young people, and almost all of these new infections in the young - are in young key populations. But less than 1 in 4 are receiving prevention services as of now. |
| #15 | 8/28/2022 | Growing support globally to end HIV medicine stockouts in India (Citizen News Service - CNS) Global agencies to groups in India - national and state networks - have officially written to the government of India to end stockouts of HIV lifesaving medicines and dispense minimum one-month supply to over 1.6 million people who are on this treatment in India. Today as on 27 August 2022, it is 38th day of indefinite stir day-night going outside the office of India's AIDS Programme in Delhi |
| #16 | 8/5/2022 | Changing the Gay Marriage Bill to Get It Passed Risks the Very Court Interference It Was Supposed to Prevent
(Tom Hilton) GOP proposed changes to the gay marriage bill before the Senate risks sending the issue right into the laps of the Supreme Court Justices who want to make it illegal.1 |
| #17 | 8/3/2022 | Long-awaited goal of ensuring every child is born HIV-free (Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider the below article based on an interview with Dr Glory Alexander who has dedicated her life for helping HIV positive pregnant women deliver HIV negative babies and taking care of people living with HIV. Few countries have already eliminated parent to child transmission of HIV (so no child is born with HIV). We have the medicines and tools and approaches to help HIV positive parents deliver HIV negative babies |
| #18 | 7/28/2022 | Latest UNAIDS data paint a grim picture of the HIV epidemic (Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider the below article based on release of latest report by United Nations joint programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) yesterday which shows if business as usual continues, world is going to miss the fight against AIDS (to end AIDS by 2030). This new report, IN DANGER, calls upon governments for stronger action against AIDS and efforts to bring back the response to end AIDS on track, |
| #19 | 7/27/2022 | The Respect for Marriage Act Doesn't Go Far Enough
(Thomas Knapp) The Respect for Marriage Act makes sense, at least within the context of "marriage" as a state-sanctioned privilege requiring a "license." It's clearly constitutional, and its likely effect is to protect rights.
But why are state governments regulating and licensing marriage in the first place?9 |
| #20 | 7/26/2022 | People living with HIV demand end of medicine stockout: Indefinite sit-in begins (Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider this article based on 8 interviews with people living with HIV who are on an indefinite sit-in as lifesaving antiretroviral medicines run out of stock in several places across India. Hope supplies resume and drug stockouts never occur! |
| #21 | 7/25/2022 | HIV care is essential and lifesaving, but not enough for living normal lives (Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider the below article based on insights with an expert who has spent over 20 years working with children living with HIV. Dr Raj believes along with ensuring HIV treatment and whole spectrum of care and services (which are essential and lifesaving) we also have to ensure ZERO HIV stigma, discrimination, jobs and employment with dignity, social support and other no-less-essential support services so that every child |
| #22 | 6/20/2022 | During the lockdown, community led from the front in ensuring HIV treatment reaches people (Citizen News Service - CNS) Please consider the below article based on interviews with former president of national network of people living with HIV, and top epidemiologist and HIV scientist. Both share how people living with HIV home delivered (or where people preferred closer to their homes) lifesaving medicines when lockdown was clamped during COVID-19 pandemic. It is important to ensure uninterrupted treatment for those living with HIV |
| #23 | 4/12/2022 | Gender and Sports
(Destinie Johnson) The ongoing gender-related disputes about who should be allowed to participate in sports competitions can be solved very simply. The process of creating sensible competitive guidelines has evolved over decades, and will continue to evolve. The "trans" crisis in sports can be easily handled with no further blood spilled, jaw grinding, or panties in a twist.12 |
| #24 | 4/3/2022 | We can #endAIDS now if undetectable equals untransmittable becomes a reality for all persons living with HIV (Citizen News Service - CNS) This article is based on insights from HIV medical and scientific experts. We have lifesaving antiretroviral therapy for every person living with HIV but everyone with HIV is not aware of his/her status, everyone is not receiving these medicines and that is why, undetectable is not becoming equal to untransmittable too + poor quality of life for those who are left out of HIV care. |
| #25 | 11/30/2021 | When people with HIV can live normal lives then why 680,000 AIDS deaths in 2020? (Citizen News Service - CNS) This article is in lead up to World AIDS Day. We have made the scientific advancements to have the right tools to prevent HIV, and to ensure every person living with HIV can stay healthy and live fulfilling normal lives. But we are failing due to which 680,000 people died of AIDS in 2020, and 1.5 million newly got infected with HIV. We could have done better, we have to because inaction is not a choice anymore. |
| #26 | 11/5/2021 | Dorothy Bryant: Prophet?
(Kari Ann Owen) This article explores and praises the prescience of SF Bay Area novelist Dorothy Bryant in the face of multiple authoritarian movements. Its point is to widen and deepen lens with which we look at the current state of our county, particularly where Covid-19 is concerned.
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| #27 | 8/7/2021 | Moving HIV prevention and treatment tools from the lab to all those in need (Citizen News Service - CNS) It is vital to ensure that scientific breakthroughs (like new drugs or vaccines etc) reach ALL the people in need as soon as possible without any delay - if we are to have a public-health impact. Be it Covid vaccines or HIV prevention and treatment tools, ensuring that these health technologies reach those in need is an imperative for public health impact we want to have! . |
| #28 | 4/28/2021 | Europe must discuss homophobia and nationalism in Latvia (Aleksandrs Kuzmins) Homophobia in Latvia must STOP! European Union must discuss blatant attack on two gay man last week in town Tukums. |
| #29 | 4/27/2021 | Latvian human rights activists condemn homophobia in China, Latvia and the world (Juris Paiders) The issue of human rights of LGBT persons is like a hot potato - hard to spit it out, but also hard to swallow. Despite majority of the public having nothing against the LGBT community, people are afraid to allow them to have the same human rights everyone else has. |
| #30 | 3/31/2021 | Gender and Medicine: Two Questions for Arkansas Legislators
(Thomas Knapp) Whatever happened to the "conservative" Republican lines on business (best operated with minimal government interference or regulation -- yes, medical practices are businesses) and family (e.g. the sanctity of parental authority in nearly every aspect of child-rearing)?
While "conservative" Republicans talk those two lines quite loudly, they seldom walk either line much at all.21 |
