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Published in: 50.50Older women living with HIV in the UK: discrimination and broken confidentiality
Women accessing HIV care services in the UK report being told to use separate cutlery, being refused help to shower,...
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Published in: 50.50Rhetoric meets reality: ending HIV and AIDS
Ending AIDS by 2030 is redundant rhetoric. It is meaningless without investment in community participation. Code red...
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Published in: openIndiaHIV community condemns witch-hunt against civil society in India
It is imperative that Governments, while committing to ending AIDS by 2030, remain alive to the indispensable role...
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Published in: 50.50The diary of an AIDS activist: lost to temper and hungry for hope
“The real reason we haven’t beaten this epidemic boils down to one simple fact: we value some lives more than...
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Published in: 50.50Crosstalk: HIV and linking across areas of criminalisation
In a moment of global attacks on civil society, an intersectional approach linking issues across HIV, sexuality,...
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Published in: 50.50Tanzanian pastoralist women: HIV and health rights
Vertical health service provision alone will not solve the gender-based violence and HIV challenges facing...
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Published in: 50.50HIV, AIDS and holistic healthcare: can spirituality and science meet?
The theme of next week's World Aids Conference in Durban, South Africa is 'Access, Equity, Rights Now'. Will its...
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Published in: 50.50Ending HIV: UN slogans vs the voices of civil society
Last week’s UN meeting exposed the deep divide about whether HIV responses should commit to respecting, protecting...
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Published in: 50.50Ending HIV: ideology vs evidence at the UN
This week’s negotiations over the UN’s Political Declaration Ending AIDS are rife with circular debates, and sex,...
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Published in: 50.50CSW: groundbreaking US support for sexual rights
With the 60th UN Commission on the Status of Women underway in New York, the decision by the US to support sexual...
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Published in: 50.50The confinement of Eve: resolving Ebola, Zika and HIV with women’s bodies?
There are parallels between three major newsworthy viruses, Ebola, HIV and Zika, in relation to the global public...
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Published in: 50.50Welcome to our house: women living with HIV
The largest survey on women living with HIV, commissioned by the World Health Organisation, has revealed the stark...
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Published in: 50.50Amnesty International: should sex work be decriminalized?
As Amnesty International meets to consider a resolution that calls for the decriminalization of sex work, those in...
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Published in: 50.50Nobody Left Behind? The lives of indigenous women with HIV
HIV rates are driven by widespread global inequalities. What will it take to put the human rights of indigenous...
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Published in: 50.50HIV and AIDS: language and the blame game
The negative and dehumanizing language used by scientists discussing global HIV policy is sapping the soul of those...
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Published in: 50.50No experts, saviours or victims: women living with HIV
Beyond bio-medical models, recent research has enabled a better psycho-social understanding of how women can access...
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Published in: 50.50The sexual and reproductive health issue you’ve probably never heard of….
Why is one of the most common gynaecological conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, schistosomiasis, misunderstood,...
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Published in: 50.50"I am one of those foreigners": living with HIV in the UK
HIV is easily treatable with pills. But there are no pills for stigma. Stigma grows on the ignorance behind the...
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Published in: 50.50Women living with HIV: a matter of safety and respect
Last month the results of a global survey on women living with HIV were published. The survey was designed and...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: witnessing the realisation of raw human rights
Fear of HIV disclosure and subsequent violent reactions are experienced globally. We know that rights-based...