Citizen News Service - CNS: The chasm between TB and HIV continues 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?

Citizen News Service - CNS: May you be the woman you want to be in a man's world 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.

Angela May: Outing policies being passed by school districts will cause more more harm than good 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 

Citizen News Service - CNS: Blunting of AIDS epidemic: It's time for zero-complacency and stronger action 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 complacency 1 

Citizen News Service - CNS: Is HIV self-test among the missing links to reach the #endAIDS goal? 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.

Alan Hodge: Becoming Behavior Today's stretch goal: realizing very few of us fit either binary stereotype, and being happy about it. 11 

Citizen News Service - CNS: Will global family planning meet galvanise governments to deliver on gender equality? 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,

Citizen News Service - CNS: Are HIV programmes missing the young who need them the most? 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.

Citizen News Service - CNS: Growing support globally to end HIV medicine stockouts in India 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

Thomas Knapp: The Respect for Marriage Act Doesn't Go Far Enough 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 

Citizen News Service - CNS: People living with HIV demand end of medicine stockout: Indefinite sit-in begins 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!

Citizen News Service - CNS: HIV care is essential and lifesaving, but not enough for living normal lives 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

Citizen News Service - CNS: When people with HIV can live normal lives then why 680,000 AIDS deaths in 2020? 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.

Kari Ann Owen: Dorothy Bryant: Prophet? 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. . 1 

Citizen News Service - CNS: Moving HIV prevention and treatment tools from the lab to all those in need 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! .