According to leaked information about UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe's correspondence with McKinsey and Company, 2018 will mark the beginning of the end of UNAIDS: the embattled leader has hatched…
By Simon Collins, HIV i-Base On Tuesday 24 July, the results from the extension to the PARTNER study were presented by Alison Rodger at a press conference at AIDS 2018,…
This week the price of bedaquiline in the public sector in South Africa was cut in half. What does this mean for the increased uptake of this critically important TB…
Hundreds of delegates walked out of the opening of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam last night in protest when UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe took the stage. By Kerry…
This is a statement read out by the group of 23 women as Michel Sidibe took to the stage at the opening plenary. “…a political struggle that does not have…
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Ronnie came out in the early 1980s, telling his friends and sister that he was [caption id="attachment_6571" align="alignright" width="300"] Ronnie. Pic by Joyrene Kramer[/caption] homosexual. This was…
By Anele Yawa Two years ago, we welcomed the world to the International AIDS Conference [caption id="attachment_6568" align="alignright" width="300"] Anele Yawa at the Durban2016 march[/caption] in Durban, South Africa. At…
Almost everyone in the HIV world is talking about providing services to key populations – a ground-breaking project in Thailand is providing an example of how to go about it.…
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Nosipho Soga is a 19-year-old learner who hails from Kuyasa, a Khayelitsha township in Cape Town. She can best be described as bubbly, intelligent, engaged and relatively…
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Nosicelo Kokoti cannot be described as an adolescent woman anymore. [caption id="attachment_6529" align="alignright" width="300"] Nosicelo Kokoti[/caption] However, at the age of 31, she is as passionate as…
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Dressed in a Robert Sobukwe Dashiki and trendy shoes, Thando Jack draws [caption id="attachment_6508" align="alignright" width="300"] Thando Jackby Joyrene Kramer[/caption] gazes from the mainly white upper middle-class…
By Nomatter Ndebele [caption id="attachment_6515" align="alignright" width="300"] Gloria. Pic by Joyrene Kramer[/caption] Gloria lives in Vrededorp, Johannesburg with her partner and her 2-year-old son. She has been on drugs since…
