UNAIDS: Children left out of HIV planning
Children remain vulnerable despite gains in HIV prevention and treatment
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#AIDS2020Virtual: Covid-1919 impacts 17.7 million people on ARVs
The World Health Organization and UNAIDS has warned that if efforts are not made to mitigate health services and supply interruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic,the disruption of antiretroviral therapy could cause 500 000 more deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020–2021.
#AIDS2020Virtual: Pills, vaccines and the road towards the HIV cure
"In the face of a seemingly hopeless scientific and humanitarian challenge, scientists and activists joined together to accelerate the development of breakthrough treatment and biomedical prevention tools," reads the 23rd International Aids Conference website.
#AIDS2020VIRTUAL: Community involvement key to addressing disparities after 40-years of HIV pandemic
“Communities are important – as some of great ideas might not generally come from the top, but they can come from the bottom,” says Gregorio Millett of the American Foundation for Aids Research.
#AIDS2020VIRTUAL: Setting the path for new HIV targets
All countries should set the same 2025 goals to work towards eradicating HIV in the next ten years.
#Aids2020Virtual: How to improve PrEP delivery
The lesson taken from the Covid-19 pandemic to treating HIV/Aids is to make delivery of medication simpler and diverse to save more lives.
Gains in battle against HIV under threat
UNAIDS says the 90-90-90 targets for 2020 will not be met, citing COVID-19 as a major contributor to the delays
#AIDS2020Virtual:Impact of COVID19 on HIV services a worry
The world’s largest conference on HIV opened today in a special virtual format due to COVID-19. It kicked off with a focus on the links between the two viruses, and a recognition of global debates around racism.
“London Patient” HIV free for 34-months now
Don’t give up hope is the message from the “London Patient”, who remains HIV-free after three years
Gauteng doctor ‘brings the beauty back into medicine’
Dr Ellenore Meyer is the lynchpin for multiple community-based and person-centric care programs in Tshwane, and uses clinic services for the greater good.
The evolution to healthy eating
Food is fuel, but this concept is relatively new to me. I wasn’t always conscious of what I ate and I would often wolf down food because I was either hungry, bored, or emotional. That was me in 2017, writes Reesha Chibba.
[Op-ed]: A day in the life of a Somali Covid-19 community mobiliser
Covid-19 messaging in Somalia saves lives but there’s still those who don’t take the virus seriously, writes Zahra Mahamoud Jama, UNICEF community social mobiliser.
[Op-ed] Even when we cry blood, our country doesn’t answer
After tweeting to the presidency about her numerous gender-based violence (GBV) experiences, Sihle Bolani has only been met with a deafening silence despite a resounding response from South Africa. She asks why there hasn't been decisive action to tackle GBV with the same gusto as the Covid-19 pandemic. By: Sihle Bolani.
‘The extreme sport of killing and raping women and children’
I am driven to the darkest place of despair inside my head, every women killed is a knife to my heart and a scar on my already tattered soul, writes Vanessa Tedder. She encourages everyone to speak up when they see or suspect abuse taking place
[Op-ed]: New PrEP injection testament to HIV research and community partnership
With the development of a new delivery form of PrEP, HIV advocacy and research communities bolster itself after the HVTN 702 clinical trial’s premature ending, writes Ntando Yola.