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Alice Sagwidza-Tembe, CNS Correspondent, Swaziland On September 25th 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all, as part of a new sustainable development agenda. Each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society and ordinary people. Of these 17 goals, the 3rd goal is dedicated to Good Health and Well-being. One of its targets envisages to reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—like cancer—by 2030. It has been more than 1 year since then, but with 8.8 million cancer related deaths in 2015, there does not seem to be any major change towards reduction and prevention of cancers. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about one third of cancer cases are preventable.  Anne Jones , Senior Tobacco Control Expert with t...

In a webinar (recording , podcast ) experts raised key concerns around cancer deaths not declining fast enough in order to keep the governments' commitments of reducing cancer deaths (and of other non-communicable diseases or NCDs) by one-third by 2030. Towards the end of March 2017, Asia Pacific governments will meet in Thailand at Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development and later in July 2017 review progress made on some of these Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which includes the SDG-3 (one of the targets of which is to reduce NCD deaths by 1/3rd). Fighting cancer-related stigma is critical Lucknow-based senior educationist and breast cancer survivor Nita Mullick insisted that early and accurate diagnosis of cancer is as important as access to affordable standard anti-cancer treatment without delay. Raising awareness among women (and also among men and transgender) about breast cancer symptoms, regular self-examination and when and where to go for screening, etc, w...

[ 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 .

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 ]

Pritha Roy Choudhury, CNS Correspondent, India A chance meeting with Rosalina Diengdoh (name changed), a 50 year old woman  from the north eastern state of Meghalaya in India, who is in Delhi for the treatment of her son, reaffirmed my doubts regarding the impact of pictorial warnings on packed tobacco products to dissuade people from using the same. It was in April 2016, after a two year battle, that the Indian government  finally acceded to quadruple in size the graphic health warnings on tobacco packaging. Harrowing images of the health consequences of tobacco use must now be displayed across 85% of the surface area of all tobacco packets -- a measure proven to help users quit and prevent others taking up the habit. I met Rosalina, outside the All India Institute for Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Even though I live in Delhi, I was born and brought up in Shillong—A North eastern state of India. Seeing a lady in front of me, who was dressed in the traditional attire of that state...