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stories Community advocates can end AIDS

Video: Meet community advocates from around the world who are working to end AIDS.

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stories Video on empowering women who use drugs: Those three words

Meet Halyna and Svitlana, two inspiring activists who are fighting to change a law that can remove the parental rights of women who use drugs in Ukraine. Even if they are able to care for their children.

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stories Tendai’s story: HIV, friendship and true love

When Tendai was diagnosed with HIV as a child, he was ostracised by all his friends. But at age 14, his life changed when the true love of a friend literally saved his life.

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stories Re-imagining women’s sexual and reproductive rights

Using photography, women on the margins are re-writing the dominant narratives and re-claiming power in the fight against AIDS. From young women in Uganda challenging the perceptions of women who use drugs, to former sex workers in Myanmar providing legal advice to others, and transwomen enacting self-care, they are changing the narrative on women’s rights.

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stories The women tackling HIV and violence in Egypt

“I still had the scars from the latest beating 60 days after he died,” says Maha, from Alexandria, Egypt....

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stories Do you know what it’s like to lose a part of yourself? Farah, Egypt

“I always dreamed of having a girl,” says Farah, 39....

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stories Photo story: Action to end gender-based violence.

When maginalised communities are given the chance to depict their experience of gender-based violence via photography, powerful messages arise....

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stories How I overcame loneliness and HIV stigma as a young mother

Sophia has faced isolation, poverty and low self-esteem. But with support from her peers, the future is looking brighter for her and her daughter. ...

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stories Being a woman: a crime in Nigeria?

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stories Photo stories from people who use drugs: our lives, our voices

These photos tell stories of the lives of people who use drugs in Myanmar, Nigeria and Uganda. They were created through a collaboration between Frontline AIDS and PhotoVoice, working with communities of people who use drugs, LGBT people, and adolescent girls and young women in the three countries, within the Partnership to Inspire, Transform and Connect the HIV response (PITCH) programme....

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stories A blossom pink world: Transgender activists in video

Guyana Trans United’s ground-breaking campaign to repeal British colonial ‘buggery laws’ has found support from high-profile government officials....

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stories Photo gallery: raising the status of women who use drugs in India

Introducing WINGS, an Alliance India programme which has set out to prove and document that women who use drugs do exist in India, and that tailored harm reduction services can have a huge impact on their lives....

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stories The systematic abuse of India’s female opiate users

Women who use drugs are at increased risk from HIV and violence, but as they don’t explicitly feature in official national data, their needs largely go unmet....

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