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Reaching the people who are the most marginalised in any given setting is one of the greatest challenges development and humanitarian actors face.
A financial pledge to advance gender equality will change the lives of millions of women and girls and gender-diverse people around the world. But what will really change for those most impacted by HIV?
Years ago, when I was part of a team introducing harm reduction programming into a country where at that time it was a new concept, we described our work as reducing the negative consequences of drug use. But over the years I have come to realise that the ills which harm reduction mitigates are not the consequences of drug use, but rather of drug policies.
Frontline AIDS’ Black and people of colour group formed shortly after George Floyd’s murder amid a global outpouring of solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement. They share why his death has triggered a new hope where unpacking race and HIV, and holding people to account are key to ending AIDS.
As the second wave of COVID-19 engulfs India, Alliance India is getting critical help to the frontline of the HIV response. ...
The new UNAIDS strategy puts forward a bold and transformational approach for addressing the inequalities that stand in the way of ending AIDS....
The COVID-19 pandemic and its restrictive measures are negatively impacting the testing and treatment of millions of people living with TB and HIV co-infection. The World Health Organization estimates an additional 400,000 lives could be lost....
COVID-19 threatens to derail the HIV response, but a new agenda on gender equality brings new hope for women and girls affected by HIV. ...
Despite the enormous challenges posed by COVID-19, many scientists attending this year's virtual HIV Research 4 Prevention conference voiced optimism that we are entering a golden age for HIV prevention....
January marked an important step on the path to the first fully female-controlled HIV prevention method, after the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended use of the dapivirine vaginal ring for cisgender women at ‘substantial risk’ of HIV, as part of combination prevention approaches....
Divya Bajpai, Director: Programmes at Frontline AIDS, gives her perspective on how the ongoing movement for racial equality could be transformative for organisations working in international development....
This World AIDS Day, organisations at the forefront of the HIV response are sounding the alarm that a shift in focus to COVID-19 risks creating a sharp rise in new infections....
In Myanmar, if you are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) existing laws leave you open to arrest, abuse and extortion at the hands of the police. Not only does this violate LGBT people’s human rights, it sanctions stigma and abuse from others and prevents LGBT people from accessing life-saving HIV services....