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Video: Not even a pandemic can stop the fight for Pride 10 Sep 2021

In 2021 most in-person Pride festivals are cancelled due to the pandemic. But it’s also worth remembering, that for millions of LGBT+ people around ...

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Pride – it’s worth fighting for 17 Jun 2021

This Pride Month we celebrate the achievements of three LGBT+ activists from the Frontline AIDS partnership. Each of them embodies and is the very def...

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Sex work: holding the knife on the sharpest edge 02 Jun 2020

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

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Gender-based violence and the ‘other’ women 27 Nov 2017

Dianne Massawe of the AIDS Legal Network on gender-based violence and the ‘other’...

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A person-centred approach to preventing HIV among sex workers 19 Oct 2017

Effective HIV prevention for sex workers stems from treating them as people with diverse needs like anyone...

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How I survived as a transgender woman from Nigeria 13 Oct 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, g...

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A person-centred approach to preventing HIV in Khayelitsha’s children 09 Oct 2017

Protecting the next generation from HIV must involve prevention programming that is centred around the child as they...

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Tinashe’s story: hope after persecution for being gay 06 Jun 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 ...

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