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Manifesto calls for women and girls in East and Southern Africa to have access to all HIV prevention options – and the freedom to choose which method is right for them 

Limited access to smartphones, poor network coverage and a lack of privacy and digital literacy leads to low uptake

Luann Hatane on what's still stopping young people in Africa from using sexual and reproductive health services and how health providers can change young people’s lives for the better

The Fifth Botswana AIDS Impact Survey confirms the country has met the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets ahead of schedule

Tonderai Mwareka from Zimbabwe National Network of People living with HIV (ZNNP+) talks about HIV stigma and the barriers this creates to vital HIV services

World Health Organization’s global consultation shows why it’s time to talk to young people about U=U 

HIV testing, diagnosis and treatment among adolescents fell sharply in 2020, analysis from 15 African countries plus Haiti shows 

You might have heard terms like ‘trans’, ‘non-binary’, ‘genderqueer’ and ‘cis’ – but what do they all mean?  

Young people in South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe express a preference for on-demand PrEP over daily PrEP – one of the biggest reasons is HIV stigma

Our take on the most exciting research at the 12th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science  

In this first-hand blog, Joyce Ouma shares her personal experiences on the challenges of living with HIV and highlights the negative effects of stigma

World Health Organization releases guidance on the three levels of HIV viral suppression and what they mean for HIV transmission and people’s health

Expert group calls for an end to “misguided and unjust criminalisation” that fuels HIV infections and threatens public health  

West African and USA studies involving men who have sex with men found most had problems predicting sex and some struggled to take post-sex pills  

UNAIDS’s newly released 2023 Global AIDS Update sets out a clear path to ending AIDS this decade. But warns that failure to act could prolong the pandemic “indefinitely” 

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