Opinion, comment and analysis on HIV

Next week, 193 governments will attend the United Nation’s General Assembly in New York to adopt new sustainable development goals. But how serious are they about ensuring no one is left behind in the goal to ensure healthy lives for all? more →

For young people in southern Africa a lack of access to condoms is putting them at risk of unwanted pregnancies and HIV, and could ultimately jeopardise their lives. more →

A recently released Malawian song mocking people living with HIV shows the extent to which some people can go to achieve fame, money and power. more →

In Zimbabwe, many orphans living with HIV are cared for by extended families, particularly grandparents, yet very little of HIV programme funding goes direct to these carers. more →

A new global plan for sustainable development will take centre stage at this year’s United Nation’s General Assembly, but the role that young people will play is still unclear. more →

As the debate over sex work heats up, Amnesty International must listen to sex workers, not Hollywood stars, and finalise its draft policy calling for decriminalisation of sex work. more →

Now I’ve had time to reflect on what I heard at the International AIDS Conference, held in Vancouver last month, I have a glass half empty feeling. more →

Women having control over choices about their lives, including their sexuality, is crucial in the fight against HIV and something Virginia Muwanigwa, chairperson of the Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe, is keen to highlight. more →

Every day Mercy Nanyonga wakes up, she knows that she is going to help a pregnant woman bring new life into the world. more →

A coalition of African women are calling on governments to fully address cultural and traditional practices that continue to put women and girls at greater risk of HIV. more →

As a new international development agenda is finalised this year, policymakers must do more to address the link between violence against women and their vulnerability to HIV infection. more →

Preventing transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies is a huge global priority in the HIV response, but until recently the importance of involving men has not been recognised. more →

In Kenya, stigma and discrimination against sexual minorities, particularly men who have sex with men and transgender people, is putting them at increased risk of HIV. more →

Around 14 per cent of adolescents in Nigeria are hearing impaired, yet their specific sexual health needs have long been ignored. more →

As a medical professional attending the World Congress on Publich Health, I was keen to see how current priorities would be addressed, but the clear lack of community dialogue was disappointing. more →

James Odong explores how the burden of caregiving falls heavily on girls, affecting their quality of life and education opportunities, as well as bringing added vulnerabilities. more →

In Kenya, the church has built a reputation of faith healing many diseases – including HIV. But are churches complicating and undermining the government’s efforts to keep HIV in check? more →

By September this year, the world will have a new set of sustainable development goals, but can these goals help cut HIV infections – especially among the most marginalised communities? more →

Every year, February is dedicated to African American history but this year I want to use the opportunity to address a modern equality issue that African Americans must fight for: equal access to HIV services. more →

When Nalia left her village for Addis Ababa, she expected to find a job and send money home to her family. Aged just 13, her choices were limited and she started selling sex. more →

As UNICEF and UNAIDS launch the All In to end Adolescent AIDS campaign, Owen Nyaka asks will it make a difference to the invisible generation of adolescents living with HIV? more →

As leaders from around the world gather in Nairobi to launch ‘All In’ to end adolescent AIDS, Lucy Maroncha explores the issue of HIV disclosure, a key issue this initiative must tackle. more →

As UNAIDS and UNICEF launch All In! on 17 February, a global initiative to reduce the unnecessary deaths of adolescents living with HIV, this is the first in a series of stories on this issue. more →

Although prayers may have their place, Charles Pensulo explores different opinions to the role of religious leaders when it comes to treating HIV. more →

Kenyan religious leaders are outraged by a condom advert, while HIV activists are astonished at the ‘denial of reality’. more →

HIV activists must fight their corner in the global scrum to prioritise development issues post 2015. Marielle Hart offers valuable insights on what’s worth fighting for. more →

At Katwe-Kabatoro landing site on the shores of Lake George in Uganda’s Kasese district, the HIV epidemic is taking another twist. more →

By the end of this year, the international community has to agree on a new set of sustainable development goals, ensuring universal health coverage must be a priority. more →

On Human Rights Day (10 December), Jean Claude Kamwenbusa reports on how the criminalisation of same sex relationships in Burundi is putting people’s health and lives at risk. more →

Worldwide an increasing number of children who contracted HIV as babies are surviving into adolescence, even without medication, but many are dying before treatment can be initiated or be effective. more →

Two days after World AIDS Day (1 December), I’m sure many people will have put the issue of HIV out of their mind, but it’s not an issue we can afford to think about just once a year. more →

In Kenya, lesbians, are marginalised and often lack access to sexual health and HIV services. When Brenda was raped to ‘cure’ her of being lesbian, she was left with HIV which she passed on to her female partner. more →