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Published in: 50.50"More than just a pound of flesh"?It is time to move beyond the 'objective' evidence base to rights and justice for women with HIV. Will the...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: nothing about us, without us
I am almost at peace with HIV. I am used to my reality. The “why me” days are over. The timing is never right, as...
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Published in: 50.50From Barcelona to Vienna: the delegates who do not know we exist
The city becomes a giant hotel, hundreds of activities happen simultaneously, thousands of people talk HIV, millions...
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Published in: 50.50Where power resides, the epidemic recedes
When I entered the meeting room I was welcomed by smiles and greetings in different languages. A dark woman with...
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Published in: 50.50Romania: living with HIV
Unscreened blood transfusions, institutionalization - and now the economic crisis, mean that those who survived...
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Published in: 50.50Why I don't test for HIV
The International AIDS Conference is not only about medical science, it is also about prevention. If prevention...
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Published in: 50.50The only positive woman in Vienna
Women with HIV are part of the solution, not part of the problem in tackling this pandemic
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Published in: 50.50How do you spend your time as an old age pensioner ?
I work as a glorified concierge, answering questions as to where and when the test can be done, I encourage those...
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Published in: 50.50African women with HIV in Europe: from isolation to involvement
African women living in the UK still have to deal with a number of harmful cultural practices. Many of these women...
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Published in: 50.50Saving Sakineh
This is a tragedy that belongs to modern powerplay and the current moment, and that calls for a much more thoughtful...
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Published in: 50.50Spirit, hope, money and a dose of patriarchy
A growing movement of African Christians are making waves at home and abroad with their ultra conservative...
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Published in: 50.50Migration: playing the numbers game
The British coalition government wants to halve net migration into Britain. Not only is there no economic or social...
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Published in: 50.50The Tea Party and the new right-wing Christian feminismWhy have American women become so active in the right wing Tea Party movement? Could it be that they are drawn to...
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Published in: 50.50Politics vs Delivery: the G8’s maternal health agenda
G20 countries are asking why rich nations should continue to direct the form and substance of development programmes...
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Published in: openEconomyIt's up to You - the economics of openDemocracy
Yes, great, independent content costs and if the readers don't pay for it who will? Why you should want...
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Published in: 50.50A platform for humanity - The UK's Bath experiment
Positive peace is more than the absence of war. Groups campaigning to advance the causes that are vital to building...
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Published in: HomeToward a new Alexandria
The guardians of learning can no longer allow the Library to be surrounded with barbed-wire fences. It is time for...
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Published in: 50.50Dangerous liaisons
We cannot afford the direct or indirect legitimisation of extremist religious forces especially by organisations...
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Published in: HomeOptimism, pessimism and rationality
In a review essay of Matt Ridley's "The rational optimist" and Mark Boyle's "The moneyless man", scavenger and...
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Published in: 50.50"They don't speak English": language, migration and cohesion
Transforming the mechanisms and means to enable an acquisition of English is urgently required. Language is the life...