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Being disabled, HIV positive and having treatment for tuberculosis is a challenge that Ellen Banda is all too familiar with. more →

Born with HIV and living on the streets in Zimbabwe is a double challenge to say the least, but this was the situation for Anashe* who was orphaned in 2007, when he was 12. more →

In Uganda, tuk tuks are helping healthcare workers reach young people who are most vulnerable to HIV with sexual and reproductive health services. more →

In Uganda, many young people lack access to quality information on sexual and reproductive health, but a project called Link Up is helping to change this. more →

What’s the best way for young people to talk about HIV in an urban slum in Kenya? For Maxfacta, an organisation working in an informal settlement in Mathare, it is social media. more →

Mandla is a bright young man who knows his right to access HIV services, but homophobic attitudes in his community prevented him going to a health clinic for a long time. more →

See how a young man who contracted HIV as a result of injecting heroin is thriving today. This is the first in a series of photo stories about people living with HIV. more →

It’s a cold April morning, yet tension in the room full of advocates for the rights of sexual minority groups, makes it feel like a hot summer afternoon. more →

When I came to the UK to study, I was told the HIV medication I was on, was not available. It’s quite ironic, considering the comments I’ve heard in the UK about HIV treatment in Zimbabwe. more →

It was Saalim’s fortieth day as a city street thief, and he stole because he needed the cash to buy his daily dose of heroin. The day ended with a close brush with death. more →

Abiti speaks to our correspondent in Malawi about her struggle to live with HIV as a physically-challenged mother of three children. more →

On World TB Day (24 March) read Hope’s chronicle of life as a sex worker and being diagnosed with TB, then later HIV. more →

On 14 February, Valentine’s Day, more than 50 young Burundians lined up to get condoms at a youth centre in the capital, Bujumbura. more →

On International Women’s Day (8 March), leaders around the world are taking pledges on issues of gender equality; HIV and sex work are issues on which they must take action. more →

Watch Christine’s story and find out how she learned to negotiate for safer sex through the support of the Uganda Link Up project. more →

Find out what youth participants say are the challenges and solutions for meeting the family planning needs of young people. more →