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Frontline AIDS launches its Global Plan of Action for...
Following their participation in the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum in South Africa, Gracias Atwiine (PITCH country focal point in Uganda) and Rio Babirye (Ugandan Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (UNYPA), a PITCH partner), reflect on why we cannot ignore gender-based violence in the efforts to tackle HIV....
Around the world, women are taking action in an invigorated effort to end gender-based violence. We are supporting communities most affected, to challenge laws and attitudes that fail to protect people from violence and rape....
A new film contest launched in Myanmar last year, supported by Frontline AIDS, calling for films from sex workers, people who use drugs and those living with HIV....
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....
Thousands of people converged on Kigali for Africa’s largest conference on AIDS. But what difference will it make to bringing the continent closer to tackling one of it’s biggest health issues? From an audience with Winnie Byanyima to breaking out of the echo chamber, community advocates Gracias Atwiine, D’bora de Carvalho and Lloyd Dembure reflect on the challenges and opportunities. ...
Last month, Zimbabwe Civil Liberties Drug Network hosted the Health for Justice, Justice for Health Youth Concert. We learn why we can't ignore the rights of young people who use drugs....
What is the real impact of drug decriminalisation on the health and rights of people who use drugs? A new interactive online map from the International Drug Policy Consortium, Release and Talking Drugs explores successes and failures of different drug decriminalisation models. It asks: what makes a decriminalisation model successful in protecting the health and rights of people who use drugs?...
