Latest from the frontline
From 20-24 October 2020, the world’s largest gathering on lung disease will take place – and COVID-19 will take centre stage.
All over the world, community-based organisations are initiating innovations in HIV services to continue reaching people with what they need most, be it medicine, food, psychosocial support or emergency accommodation.
Despite no official data on people who use drugs in Zimbabwe, evidence suggests the population is significant and particularly vulnerable to HIV. Yet harm reduction services do not currently exist....
Many marginalised communities are using Frontline AIDS’ Rights – Evidence – ACTion (REAct) tool to monitor and respond to the daily human rights violations people experience....
Our Executive Director, Christine Stegling, reports back from a subdued International AIDS Conference....
Responding to the rising levels of intimate partner violence experienced by women who use drugs in Kenya during COVID-19...
For sex workers and people who use drugs – who are already living precariously – COVID-19 is having a devastating impact and we are calling for urgent action to address their health needs....
Alongside this year’s International AIDS Conference, Frontline AIDS and our partners hosted two virtual side events to focus conversation on the human rights impacts of COVID-19 and what the new pandemic means for marginalised communities and progress on HIV prevention. Here are five key takeaways....
Eddie Mkhatshwa, our READY+ programme coordinator in eSwatini, reflects on how we adapted the programme to COVID-19, and what the secondary effects of the pandemic may be for young people living with HIV. ...
The war on drugs has wreaked havoc on millions of people across the world for half a century, but remains uncontested by all but a few. It has become an established part of the world order, even when its devastating impacts – not to mention its lack of success – are all too obvious....
