Kenyan clinics provide health care to truck drivers, sex workers

Kenyan clinics provide health care to truck drivers, sex workers

A clinic initiative in Kenya aims to provide health care to vulnerable mobile populations such as truck drivers and commercial sex workers. The goal is to combat the spread of disease across borders in Africa. Juma Majanga reports from the transit town of Mlolongo in Kenya. Camera: Amos Wangwa Read original article here Denial of … Read more

upholding human rights essential for ending AIDS

upholding human rights essential for ending AIDS

HARARE, ZIMBABWE —  Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, the U.N. has released a report saying that upholding human rights is essential for ending the AIDS pandemic. The report says human rights violations, including discrimination against girls and women, and criminalization of LGBTQ+ people, obstruct efforts to end AIDS. UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie … Read more

Debt crisis undermines AIDS eradication in Africa

Debt crisis undermines AIDS eradication in Africa

Harare, Zimbabwe —  A new report released by the main United Nations agency for action on AIDS and HIV says growing public debt is choking sub-Saharan African countries, leaving them with little fiscal room to finance critical HIV services. In the report, launched ahead of the 79th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New … Read more