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Published in: 50.50Preventing HIV: the decriminalisation of sex workA new bill, together with moves by some police departments in American cities to end the use of condoms as evidence...
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Published in: 50.50AIDS and adolescents: denying access to health
With a 50% increase in AIDS-related deaths among young people, AIDS is now the second leading cause of their deaths....
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Published in: 50.50Women who use drugs: resistance and resilience in the face of HIV
In 2011 the UN General Assembly resolved to halve the number of people who inject drugs being diagnosed with HIV....
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Published in: 50.50HIV, homophobia and historical regression: where next for Uganda?
President Yoweri Museveni was once globally admired for mobilising an HIV response in Uganda founded upon compassion...
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Published in: 50.50HIV disclosure: changing ourselves, changing others
When will policy makers, politicians and academics start to think upstream, in order to change their own and their...
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Published in: 50.50Bio-insecurity and HIV/AIDS
Science and global funding of HIV prevention is seen as an investment in biosecurity, but unless prevention and...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: a call for solidarity with the transgender community
With the prevalence of HIV 50 times higher than that of the general population, societal acceptance and family...
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Published in: 50.50AIDS 2014: Where are the women we need to step up the pace?
With scientific advances in controlling HIV we need a strong community-based response now more than ever to ensure...
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Published in: 50.50AIDS 2014 Conference: stepping up the pace and still on the wrong path
As the 20th International AIDS Conference opens in Melbourne this weekend, Alice Welbourn reflects on how global...
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Published in: 50.50Indonesia: facing life with HIV
Strategies, no matter how well intentioned, are not enough without the knowledge, insights and experiences of people...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: Violations or investments in women’s rights?
In the context of widespread sexual violence and its reciprocal links to HIV, Alice Welbourn reports on how the...
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Published in: 50.50An end to AIDS?: Not through medication alone
In the world of HIV, the allure of the bio-medical techno-fix still attracts many policy makers. Meanwhile a...
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Published in: 50.50Compulsion versus compassion: HIV treatment for women and children
Alice Welbourn and Louise Binder consider whether the new World Health Organisation treatment guidelines for women...
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Published in: 50.50Women and the post-2015 agenda: are you on board the ark?
With the roller-coaster of the CSW just finished and the resignation of UNWomen Director Michelle Bachelet, the next...
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Published in: 50.50Sex work, violence and HIV: experience from rural Karnataka
In the final days of the CSW meeting in New York, arguments over the language to be used in the Outcome Document are...
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Published in: 50.50CSW: from the global to the local - an extraordinary opportunity
Walking the bustling corridors of the UN headquarters with my Ugandan colleagues, I realise that I am situated –...
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Published in: 50.50Criminal law: HIV and violence against women
Recent court decisions in Canada on HIV non-disclosure are bad science, bad public health policy, and bad medicine...
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Published in: 50.50The gender politics of funding women human rights defenders
Lack of funding for women’s rights is a form of gender-based violence which is so pervasive that it goes largely...
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Published in: 50.50Against coerced sterilisation: a resounding victory in Namibia
Are autonomous feminist movements more important for tackling violence against women than the wealth of a country...
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Published in: 50.50Global mechanism, regional solution: ending forced sterilisation
For the first time in south-east Asia, an HIV-positive women's group in Indonesia is using the CEDAW Shadow Report...
