Paying the ultimate price
COVID-19 is teaching us lessons we should have learned from the HIV epidemic.
AIDS
Why xenophobia is bad for the health of all in South Africa
South Africa mustn’t forget the public—and that includes migrants and refugees—in its public health response to COVID-19.
There Are Women in Botswana
It’s not even news that women and children leads AIDS activism in places like Botswana, except when it’s scanted. So, here’s a primer.
No room for ambiguity
Kenyan activists raise their voices, placards and fists over US$500 million allocated but not yet spent for anti-retroviral medications. That’s a lot of money, drugs, and lost lives.
Nothing To Lose? The Art of Rotimi Fani-Kayode
The artist recognized early on that his sexuality constituted an obstacle between himself and his Nigerian background.
Pay young women in Malawi to prevent HIV infection?
The Guardian reports: “Cash payments help cut HIV infection rate in young women, study finds: Research
Sending South African miners home to die
Sick mineworkers condemned to rural South Africa, die there with little or no continuation of care, follow up, or chemotherapy.
Health care for all
The health news - with major implications for Africans living on the continent - that made the headlines in 2011.
Helen Zille’s ‘AIDS Gestapo’
The leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance makes offensive remarks about AIDS, then smears her critics, AIDS activists and journalists, as Nazis.
Helping Themba
The Dutch ‘Stop Aids Now!’ campaigns have a long tradition of appealing to potential donors in
Jadakiss and the King
Hip hop is usually associated with revolution and counter culture. But American artists, who visit the content, usually side with power. Like Jadakiss did in Swaziland
The inequality of news
Simon Kuper in the FT Weekend, takes shots at “the news,” maybe also at his own
Snake Oil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOwDQcPwbs Selling desperate people false hope, especially AIDS patients, are common on the African continent–well documented
This is not an accident
The pernicious belief, is founded on ignorance and prejudice, that certain women, including those with HIV, have no right to have children.
Well deserved
Before we close out the year we have to give a nod to the Centre for
Zackie Achmat Lecture @ CUNY
The Social Justice, Gender and Health Reading Group, The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and