Short Film Saving Chintu Beautifully Explores Societal Issues Around Homosexuality, Child Adoption And HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Saving Chintu is a film that has drawn my interest ever since I read about its making. Read More
How Infectious Diseases Like Covid-19 Get Their Names—And Why It’s Important To Use Them Correctly
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The viruses have official names: SARS-CoV-2 and HIV. The associated diseases also have official names: Covid-19 and AIDS. Read More
4 in 10 Black sexual minority men have faced police discrimination, survey analysis finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Some 43% of Black men who identify as gay, bisexual or other sexual minority say they experienced discrimination from police Read More
Bill Gates: How HIV/AIDS prepared us to tackle COVID-19
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Around 2 million people a year used to die from HIV/AIDS. Now that figure has more than halved. So what changed? Read More
World Hepatitis Day: fast-tracking elimination of hepatitis B among mothers and children
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The proportion of children under five years of age chronically infected with hepatitis B (HBV) dropped to just under 1% in 2019…
A new interactive project map sources the best solutions to COVID-19 in the slums
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Reading Time: < 1 minute UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) along with partner countries and, in cooperation with the Read More
‘I can't give in’: The Togolese nun caring for Aids patients amid Covid-19
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Dapaong is a buzzing, multi-religious city, 13 miles south of Togo’s border with Burkina Faso and more than 300 miles Read More
New PrEP option to support women's fight against HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Women at a high risk of being exposed to HIV will soon have access to a new infection prevention option in the…
Stigma and discrimination undermine epidemic responses’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A key lesson from the HIV epidemic is that stigma and discrimination often send people with symptoms underground, Read More
I’ve Been Taking ARVs Since I Was 2
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Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m Muluba. I was born with HIV and have been taking medications since the age of 2. Read More