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OPINION: Forty years of AIDS – Justice and equality remain key to quelling a still-potent epidemic

OPINION: Forty years of AIDS – Justice and equality remain key to quelling a still-potent epidemic

EDWIN CAMERON TODAY, marks World AIDS Day. The past four decades have yielded enormous medical and scientific progress – but death and stigma remain. Many elude testing or die in shame, treatment does not reach all who need it, and inequality impedes our global response. I can write this because life unexpectedly afforded me survival from AIDS. Around Easter 1985, I became infected with HIV. There was no treatment: HIV meant certain death. Like many, I kept my HIV status a secret. I hoped to escape death. No. Twelve years later, AIDS felled my body. I became terribly ill. But my privileges…
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Five ways Uganda’s health teams provided HIV care in lockdown

Five ways Uganda’s health teams provided HIV care in lockdown

UGANDA is currently in a partial country-wide lockdown. The “second wave” of coronavirus infections has been especially unforgiving. There is no household in Uganda I know of that has not been touched by the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media posts are awash with reports of death. Hundreds of lives cut short in their prime. It is no longer a story about the elderly. The frequency of death announcements in the national newspapers is truly unprecedented. HENRY ZAKUMUMPA, Health Systems Researcher, Makerere University Earlier this year, the world watched as funeral pyres burned across India. At the time, the ravages of the…
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