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Published in: 50.50An HIV-free generation: human sciences vs plumbing
The top down medical bio-fix behind the new Global Plan for an AIDS-free generation will not work without shifting...
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Published in: 50.50Is there a future for women living with HIV?
Rumours of the closure of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, and a World Bank and USAID meeting of "world...
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Published in: 50.50No test, no arrest: criminal laws to fuel another HIV epidemic
"It is a terrible irony that we have come to a place where the medications we fought for will allow us to live a...
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Published in: 50.50Are hospitals safe for women living with HIV?
There is no shortage of documentation regarding the struggle of women living with HIV to access basic care, support,...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: time for the US to put its own house in order ?
In the US more than 80% of women living with HIV are women of colour and poverty. Funding is drying up for...
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Published in: 50.50HIV, women and abortion rights
Interventions to link HIV-related and reproductive health services must not only include access to modern...
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Published in: 50.50Exploring violence as a consequence of HIV
With HIV now the leading cause of death and disease among women of reproductive age worldwide, Anca Nitulescu asks...
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Published in: 50.50Hope, pain and patience: HIV and sex workers
A year after the UN adopted a declaration in which member states committed to creating “enabling legal, social and...
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Published in: 50.50The right to know: women’s choices, Depo-Provera and HIV
As we enter the fourth decade of AIDS, we need to assert once again the importance of transparency, knowledge and...
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Published in: 50.50HIV in Italy: the epidemic continues growing among women
44,3% of all new diagnoses of HIV are among migrant women. New culturally appropriate approaches are needed to...
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Published in: 50.50L'HIV in Italia: l’epidemia continua a crescere tra le donne
il 44,3% di tutte le nuove diagnosi di infezione da HIV si registra tra le immigrate. C'è bisogno di nuovi approcci...
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Published in: 50.50USA: banning people with HIV from attending the AIDS 2012 conference
Heidemarie Kremer is a medical doctor, psychologist, and scientist. She has been barred from presenting her science...
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Published in: 50.50Positive and pregnant in Asia - How dare you
Extreme discrimination, abuse and abandonment during delivery by maternal health professionals against women with...
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Published in: 50.50Accepted mishaps? Faith healing, HIV and AIDS responses
As the 2012 International AIDS Conference gathers to review “the science”, Jessica Horn examines the powerful role...
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Published in: 50.50HIV and the Global Plan: turning the tide or a wash-out for women?
The 19th International AIDS Conference opens in Washington DC next week. We all seek an HIV-free generation but as...
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Published in: 50.50Let’s get real: female sexual pleasure and HIV prevention
The dominant HIV intervention response assumes that HIV transmission only occurs in contexts of danger and...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: of bombs and banks and transformation...
Thirty years into the AIDS pandemic, an AIDS-free generation is in our grasp at last. Alice Welbourn asks whether we...
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Published in: 50.50The "calm down dear" factor writ large: AIDS, women and the UN
In the words of the African parable, when elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. Then what will they have to...
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Published in: 50.50Rocking the cradle - and the boat
Global funding for HIV/Aids now goes to large international organisations. They need the grassroots organisations to...
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Published in: 50.50Positive women human rights defenders
When the world has come to terms with the reality that HIV is not a morality issue, and that it can affect any one...