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Community Adolescent Treatment Supporters (CATS) provide peer-to-peer...

1 min read | 19 Feb 2018

I never knew about my sexuality, even though growing up my heart’s desire was to be a boy. Having a punky hairstyle was a precious gift that made my Christmas day....

4 min read | 14 Dec 2017

As a young transgender woman, SashaBerry had a highly increased risk of acquiring HIV, which is what happened to her at the age of 18....

3 min read | 08 Dec 2017

In April 2017, Nthabiseng Mokanyane’s close childhood friend Nonkie Smous was raped and murdered because she was a lesbian. Now Nthabiseng, 25, is calling for religious and government leaders to respond to escalating threats against the lesbian community in Kroonstad, South Africa....

4 min read | 19 Nov 2017

My name is Jessica Albert. I wasn't born with that name, but that is what I am now called. Being born in Nigeria, this was a big problem as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) are often rejected by their families, churches and schools....

2 min read | 13 Oct 2017

At the age of 14 Tinashe told his grandmother that he was gay and was kicked out of the house when his grandfather found out. In 2016, age 17, he had to flee his home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in fear of his life....

3 min read | 06 Jun 2017

Superintendent Horace Chabuka, Blantyre’s community policing coordinator, used to think that gay people should not be accepted. But thanks to a small, but ambitious, community organisation in Malawi he has become a key ally in the fight for the protection of sexual minorities....

4 min read | 19 Mar 2017

“I feel I can’t believe I’m this person because I thought my life had really ended with what happened when I was 12.”...

4 min read | 23 Aug 2016

For HIV positive women, giving birth is dangerous. A community mapping...

2 min read | 17 Jul 2014