HIV and AIDS

22 Jul

Ending inequality and inequity key to ending AIDS as a public health threat

ObserverUncategorised2021 UNAIDS Global AIDS Update, AIDS, HIV and AIDS

Felicita Hikuam The 2021 UNAIDS Global AIDS Update, launched last week, has rightly pointed out that addressing inequality and inequity are key amongst the issues that need to be urgently addressed over the next decade, which could arguably be the last frontier of the global response to HIV and AIDS. In many parts of the world including east and southern Africa, despite remarkable progress, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, inequality and inequity within and between countries, continue to deter progress in ending AIDS as a public health threat, as committed in the Sustainable Development Goals. In the recently adopted United Nations…

02 Dec

The missing link: including civil society in COVID-19 responses

ObserverObserver Money2020)., AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), Covid-19, HIV and AIDS, undertook the assessment, University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), whose findings were released virtually yesterday (December 1

Moses Magadza WINDHOEK - A rapid assessment on the impact of the COVID-19 national measures on community-led HIV responses in the SADC Region shows a complex scenario in which interventions aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19 significantly disrupted community-based responses to HIV and AIDS, while also catalysing creativity and innovation in the way Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) respond to the health and rights challenges facing their communities. The AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), undertook the assessment, whose findings were released virtually yesterday…