Voices from the Field
PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis in drier scientific language, is the taking of ARVs to prevent HIV infection. It could be one of the most wonderful scientific advances of recent times – or maybe not?
If you had seen Rukiya when I met her, at age 2, you would not have thought that today she would be alive and well and at school, age 7.
Reflecting on the slogan zero new HIV infections, zero HIV-related discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.
Language has always mattered in the AIDS epidemic. From the outset, stigma was fuelled by blaming phrases like “gay plague” or “African disease”. As early as 1987, sociologist Paula Treichler called AIDS an epidemic of signification, noting [...]
Goaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!!!!!!!!!
Ayeley and I screamed loudly. Ghana had just equalized with a goal in a match against USA. We were watching the 2014 World Cup on television in Accra, my home town.
C’était un vendredi matin ensoleillé en février 2014. Une jeune femme était assise à l’extérieur de l’Hôpital général de référence de Bukavu, la tête tournée vers le ciel, l’air triste et confuse. Elle attire mon attention du fait que deux heures après mon entrée a l’hôpital – je faisais une recherche sur l’accès aux [...]
A few months ago out of interest and as part of my research for my previous blog on teenage pregnancy, I had a chat with a group of teenagers from Soweto. We talked about transactional sex.
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