Accountability Gap: Decades of Gender Equality Promises, Violence Rates Barely Shift As 2025 ends, advocates point to an accountability gap at the heart of gender equality. Governments signed long lists of promises. Yet speakers at a recent global session... See more
Put People First Mantra To Drive WHO Task Force To Save The Medicines That Protect Us – OpEd The United Nations apex health agency – the World Health Organization (WHO) – had announced the establishment of its first-ever civil society Task Force on Antimi... See more
Ninety-seven years ago, before penicillin, common bacterial infections could kill. Today, antimicrobial resistance risks taking us back. Without lifesaving medicines, curable or treatable infections could become deadly – once again. Today, a lot of medici... See more
Will Governments Make Big Tobacco Pay And Kick Big Polluters Out From Treaty Meets? – OpEd As intergovernmental Treaty meetings open on climate (UNFCCC) and tobacco control (WHO FCTC), there is a growing call to make Big Tobacco pay and kick Big Polluters... See more
India’s Molbio Diagnostics won the Kochon Prize on 29 October 2025 for taking molecular TB testing to the last mile.
The Stop TB Partnership, hosted by UNOPS, and the Kochon Foundation announced the winner in Geneva, with the prize conferred in Manila the... See more