News and blogs

blog Sex work: holding the knife on the sharpest edge

Impossible choices - work and risk getting or passing on COVID-19, or starve. How the COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions have made life very difficult for sex workers....

4 min read | 02 Jun 2020

blog READY for universal health coverage

We hear from four youth advocates on their efforts to ensure young people’s voices are heard in universal health coverage discussions....

5 min read | 29 May 2020

news World Health Assembly agrees to protect the ‘most vulnerable’ – but who are they?

There is much to be celebrated about the outcome of last week’s virtual World Health Assembly, which brought together ministers and heads of state around a single resolution: the response to COVID-19....

3 min read | 29 May 2020

blog The seven Myanmar villages supporting people who use drugs

Insights from the first community-based harm reduction, treatment and care pilot to be recognised by the country’s Ministry of Health....

4 min read | 28 May 2020

news COVID-19 and HIV webinar

COVID-19 & HIV webinar: Continuing services with and for marginalised people...

1 min read | 20 May 2020

blog New pandemic, same blame game

Rights-based organisations in Africa are reporting that stigma against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people is on the rise as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic....

3 min read | 15 May 2020

news Sustain, Adapt, Protect: A Call to Action on HIV, TB and COVID-19

Call to Action: sustain access to HIV and TB services during COVID-19,...

7 min read | 14 May 2020

news Concerns raised over impact of COVID-19 on HIV treatment access

Statement from Christine Stegling, Executive Director on the impact of...

1 min read | 11 May 2020

blog Reaching the most marginalised in the time of COVID-19

In Ecuador, one of the countries hardest-hit by the crisis, one community organisation has adapted at speed to ensure marginalised groups have the support they need....

3 min read | 07 May 2020