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African Arguments: A Hollow Victory: The Hidden Cost of Covid-19 on Women’s Health in West Africa Oley Dibba-Wadda, founder, president, and CEO of the Gam Africa Institute for Leadership (GAIL) and member of the inaugural cohort of the Amujae Initiative (12/2). BMJ Opinion: A call for equitable distribution of covid-19…
Thomson Reuters Foundation: ‘A shot can end the stigma’: African women pin hopes on anti-HIV jab “…A new injectable HIV prevention drug, called cabotegravir, that is taken every two months has proved nine times more effective in preventing HIV than the commonly used Truvada PrEP daily tablets, a study found…
AP: Rage and hope fuel women’s revolt over abortion in Poland (Gera, 12/2). Devex: World Bank updates procurement policy to enforce gender-based violence rules (Saldinger, 12/1). IPS: COVID-19 an Opportunity to Build Resilience around Food Systems (Phakathi, 12/1). Nature: Meet the scientists investigating the origins of the COVID pandemic (Mallapaty,…
IDSA’s “Science Speaks”: World AIDS Day reminds us that the toll of the world’s longest pandemic continues throughout the year Antigone Barton, writer and editor of Science Speaks and editorial director of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (12/1). IntraHealth International’s “VITAL”: In Central America, Health Workers Keep HIV Services…
AVAC: AVAC’s World AIDS Day 2020 Letter to the World (12/1). CSIS: Time to Address the Intersecting Crises of Covid-19, HIV, and Gender Inequality Janet Fleischman, senior associate (non-resident), and Maggie McCarten-Gibbs, program manager, both with the Global Health Policy Program at CSIS (11/30). International Partnership for Microbicides: World AIDS…
Devex: Opinion: To end violence against women, we must uncover inconvenient truths Björn Andersson, director of the U.N. Population Fund Asia-Pacific Regional Office (11/25). Devex: Opinion: The choice we face to get things back on track Mark Lowcock, under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs at the U.N. Office for the Coordination…
AP: Nobel laureate says pandemic raising violence, trafficking “Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad said the coronavirus pandemic has increased trafficking of women and gender-based violence, leaving the health and safety of women ‘on the line.’ The 27-year-old activist, who was forced into sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters in…
AFP/France 24: Thousands in Argentina march against new move to legalize abortion (11/28). BBC News: Detained and forced to have a ‘virginity test’ (11/27). Borgen Magazine: Food Fortification in Africa Fights Hidden Hunger (Beutel, 11/30). The Guardian: A year after Wuhan alarm, China seeks to change Covid origin story (Graham-Harrison/McKie,…
Devex: Biden said he’ll rescind the ‘global gag rule.’ What then? “President-elect Joe Biden is expected to repeal the Mexico City policy as one of his early acts in office. But a memorandum rescinding the policy — which has been expanded during President Donald Trump’s administration — is only the…
The Guardian: Trump administration in ‘staggering’ isolation at U.N. on health issues “The outgoing Trump administration’s final days at the United Nations have resulted in a deepening of U.S. isolation on social and health issues, with only a handful of allies including Russia, Belarus, and Syria. In one vote this…
