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Making your mind up: why we must support young people who use drugs
On Monday at the International Harm Reduction Conference in Lithuania, Kate Iorpenda, the Alliance’s Senior Adviser on Children and Impact Mitigation chaired an inspiring panel discussion involving young activists and programmers concerned with young people who use drugs. Continue reading
Latin American Young Leaders at Women Deliver Pre-Conference 2013
On the 27th May, the young leaders’ pre-conference of Women Deliver 2013 took place, and Latin America and the Caribbean stood out, with the 15 young people from the region involved Continue reading
Gender identity in Argentina: one year on
One year ago, Congress Square in Buenos Aires was alive with people celebrating the approval of a ground-breaking Gender Identity Law in Argentina. Continue reading
An Asia-Pacific perspective on the Post-MDG debates
Jet Riparip is the Alliance Regional Representative in the Asia-Pacific Region. She reflects on the key concerns being raised by civil society leaders in the region within the debates about a Post-MDG framework. Continue reading
HIV activists and LGBT communities in South America denounce offensive comments by politicians
Recently, there has been an alarming spate of offensive and discriminatory comments made by politicians in several Andean countries. Yesterday, a former presidential candidate Nelson Zavala in Ecuador was banned from politics for one year after voicing extremely derogatory comments … Continue reading
HIV in the future development framework: Can we end AIDS?
Last week we learned that a baby was cured from HIV by treating the infection early. More than 10 years of investments in HIV research have led to major scientific breakthroughs. The Investment Framework, published in the Lancet (2011), outlines … Continue reading
Harm reduction outreach: notes from the field
Nikolayev oblast, southern Ukraine: We stand by the little shop in the suburbs of the town, the wind almost blows us away and there is no place to hide from it. Outreach workers from a local NGO, supported by the … Continue reading
Healthy people: why civil society needs a seat at the table
Whilst at a meeting called by the Communities Delegation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in Amsterdam last month to discuss the proposed New Funding Model, I was sharply reminded why it is that communities and … Continue reading
The other epidemic: gender-based violence in India
The world has watched over the past weeks as India has struggled to address the causes and consequences of sexual violence, an all too common part of life in this country. The horror of the December 16th rape and murder in New Delhi has not diminished, its brutality a reminder in extremis of our collective failure to respond to male violence in its myriad manifestations. Continue reading
Botswana: proposed Public Health Bill goes against HIV programming best practice
Botswana’s proposed Public Health Bill makes provisions that go against all better knowledge of a best practice approach to HIV programming based on the respect of human rights and leading to positive public health outcomes for all. Continue reading
