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[ Listen or download the audio podcast ] [ Watch the video interview ] Having invested over 30 years in fight against TB, Dr KK Chopra who is the present Director of New Delhi TB Centre in India's capital, shares key insights on how to accelerate the battle to #endTB by 2030. Reflecting on the past decades, he shares key game-changing pivots that propelled the fight against TB and some things that could have done better. [ Listen or download the audio podcast ] [ Watch the video interview ]

[ Listen or download this audio podcast ] This is the recording of a special webinar in lead up to World TB Day 2017 where experts shared experiences on the role of faith in the fight against TB, and explored opportunities of how faith can help to expedite efforts to #endTB by 2030. [ Listen or download this audio podcast ]

[ Listen or download this podcast ] Catherine Mwauyakufa is an award-winning journalist and CNS Correspondent from Zimbabwe as well. She is among CNS Fellow awardees too. She shared her personal experience of role of faith in caring for the HIV affected communities and cautions against blind faith while acknowledging the pivotal role faith can play in "road to recovery" as well. Listen to her experience here (or download the podcast ). This audio podcast was broadcasted on a webinar on 28th February 2017 on "Does faith help in fighting TB? " [ Listen or download this podcast ]

[ Listen or dowload this audio podcast ] Dr Chitra Chandrashekar, recipient of prestigious Professor OA Sarma Oration Award 2016 spoke with Shobha Shukla, Managing Editor of CNS (Citizen News Service).  She shared her study findings that got her the coveted recognition. Preventing TB from spreading any further is indeed a compelling public health imperative. TB hotspots cannot be on blindspots. [ Listen or dowload this audio podcast ] [ Watch video ]

[ Listen or download the audio podcast ] This is a recording of the webinar in lead up to 2017 World Cancer Day ( watch its recording ). Panel of experts included: Anne Jones OAM, senior tobacco control expert with the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union); former CEO of ASH Australia; and Medal of the order of Australia (OAM) awardee    Dr Navneet Singh , Lung cancer expert; Associate Professor, Pulmonary Medicine Department, PGIMER; Secretary of Indian Society for Study of Lung Cancer;  Nita Mullick , cancer survivor and senior educationist   Moderators: Ashok Ramsarup , award-winning senior journalist from Durban, South Africa and former Senior Producer at SABC; and  Shobha Shukla , CNS Managing Editor   [ Listen or download the audio podcast ]

[ Listen or download this audio podcast ] World Cancer Day 2017 is on 4th February 2017. CNS presents an exclusive and very interesting panel discussion moderated by CNS Managing Editor, Shobha Shukla. Two noted experts on the panel: Dr Navneet Singh from Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER (Secretary of Indian Society for the Study of Lung Cancer); and Dr Marzi Mehta , senior surgical oncologist from Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai [ Listen or download this audio podcast ].

[ Listen or download this podcast ] Jerome Pons, Head of Cooperation (Malaysia and Thailand) at the European Union spoke with CNS (Citizen News Service) in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 19th January 2017. He raised important ageing related issues and made a strong case calling upon countries to not ignore the elderly and adapt development responses to meet the unique needs of changing population demographics. Thanks to the HelpAge International's East Asia Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO) for helping facilitate this interview. [ Listen or download this podcast ]

[ Listen or download this podcast ] Dr BB Rewari is widely acknowledged for his decade-long stewardship of Indian government's roll-out of antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme beginning from ART provision to the first person living with HIV to over a million now. Now he is the focal person for HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Office and helping accelerate ART and other efforts to #endAIDS by 2030 (#SDGs). This interview is part of CNS Inspire Series . [ Listen or download this podcast ]

Looking back at over 50 audio podcasts based upon interviews conducted by CNS Correspondents in Asian and African countries in 2016, we are compelled to say that each one of them, and the issue it focussed on, is so very important, even today! We cannot overemphasize the importance of each of these spotlight podcasts and critical issues they highlighted. Having said that, for CNS Rewind-2016 sake, if we look at some indicators such as the interaction on CNS website (reads, likes, comments, or other analytics), listens, downloads, interaction on Twitter, Facebook page, LinkedIn, email listservs, editorial markers, among others, here are top-5 CNS podcasts from 2016 . Ending TB warrants integrated responses beyond ministries of health To end AIDS we have to stop neglecting TB Tobacco industry interference in WHO FCTC Challenging nevertheless but possible to make a difference in public health Dr Jonathan Cranston shares personal experience with bovine TB CNS Editor's 2016-p...

[ Listen or download this podcast here ] This is the audio recording of a webinar in lead up to World Cancer Day 2017, on breast cancer related issues. Panel of experts included: Priya Kanayson, Advocacy Officer, NCD Alliance; Dr Pooja Ramakant, Associate Professor, Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, King George's Medical University (KGMU); Prof Anand Mishra, Head of the Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, KGMU; and Bret Miller, 6 years breast-cancer-survivor and founder of Male Breast Cancer Coalition. [ Listen or download this podcast here ]

[ Click here to listen or download this audio recording/ podcast ] This is a audio recording of a webinar [ watch recording ] on world's leading infectious killer of children under the age of five years: Pneumonia. Click here to listen or download this audio recording/ podcast .

[ Click here to listen or download the podcast ] This webinar for media was held on 30th November 2016 featuring experts from the AIDS Society of India; People's Health Organisation; and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union); who shared why TB and HIV collaborative activities are so critically important to help the world end TB and AIDS both by 2030. [ Click here to listen or download the podcast ]

[ Listen or download this podcast ] One of the most recognized Indian film-stars globally, 60 years old Anil Kapoor, was made the Grand Ambassador for Clean Air and Healthy Lungs at the 18th National Conference on Pulmonary Diseases (NAPCON 2016). Emeritus Director Professor (Dr) KC Mohanty, Chairman of NAPCON 2016 and Dr Ishwar Gilada, Co-Chairman of NAPCON 2016 and President of AIDS Society of India, appealed to Bollywood film-icon to bolster the cause of clean air and healthy lungs. Anil Kapoor is perhaps one of the most fit and healthy actors in the film industry and a champion advocate for health. [ Listen or download this podcast ]

[ Listen or download the podcast ] Dr Ishwar Gilada is among the first medical doctors who came forward to care for people living with HIV in India. Success breeds complacency and complacency may breed failure. Dr Gilada calls on NOT letting off our feet from gas pedal and instead keep striving hard to keep the promise to end AIDS by 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs).This interview is part of CNS Inspire Series . [ Listen or download the podcast ]

FCTC Art.19 expert Daniel Dorado, Corporate Accountability International Daniel Dorado a senior technical expert on WHO FCTC Article 19 delivering his intervention at the seventh Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization (7th COP to WHO FCTC) in India: 7th November 2016. Click here to listen or download this podcast in Spanish . Daniel is part of the Corporate Accountability International team onsite.  He spoke in Spanish. He hails from Columbia and lives in Ecuador. His work is also a living tribute to the invaluable legacy he holds close to his heart: he is the son of tireless human rights crusader and tobacco control leader Yul Francisco Dorado from Columbia. Yul was Latin America Director of Corporate Accountability International.

[ Click here to listen or download this podcast ] Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar , Director in-charge of National AIDS Research Institute of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has worked on HIV since 1989, few years after first case got diagnosed in India. He has played a key role in shaping India's health policy on a range of aspects related to HIV care and management. [ Click here to listen or download this podcast ]

Dr Tara Singh Bam Dr Tara Singh Bam, Regional Advisor for tobacco control at the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) spoke with CNS Managing Editor Shobha Shukla on the sidelines of the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Liverpool, UK. Click here to listen or download this podcast . He reflects on past game-changing successes in tobacco control and calls for accelerating progress in implementing effective tobacco control in countries. He also advocates for broader partnerships among public health programmes across the board for improving outcomes. [ Click here to listen or download this podcast ]

Dr Jonathan Cranston , a veterinary surgeon since past 10 years with mixed animal practice across the United Kingdom shared his personal lived experience with tuberculosis: not human TB but bovine TB. [ Listen or download this audio podcast here ]. He was in conversation with CNS Managing Editor Shobha Shukla on the sidelines of 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Liverpool, UK. [ Click here to download or listen to this podcast ]

Dr Mario Raviglione , Director of the Global Tuberculosis Programme at the World Health Organization (WHO) was in conversation with CNS Managing Editor Shobha Shukla at the sidelines of 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Liverpool, UK. This interview is part of CNS Inspire series. [ To listen or download the podcast, click here ]

Dr KS Sachdeva is the Deputy Director General at National AIDS Control Programme of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Prior to that he made seminal contribution to shaping the national tuberculosis programme of India and also had two decades of clinical work at a prestigious tertiary level hospital in India's capital Delhi. This audio podcast features his interview as part of CNS Inspire series. [ Click here to download or listen to this podcast ]