Trump’s devastating effect on global health
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSusan Kihika’s phone was ringing off the hook last month. “I was getting calls from Nigeria, from South Africa, from the UK…
Short Film Saving Chintu Beautifully Explores Societal Issues Around Homosexuality, Child Adoption And HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSaving 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 minuteThe 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 minuteSome 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 minuteAround 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 minuteThe 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 minuteDapaong 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 minuteWomen 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 minuteA key lesson from the HIV epidemic is that stigma and discrimination often send people with symptoms underground, Read More