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PHOTO ESSAY: By a dark, dangerous highway in Nepal, aid workers fired by USAID cuts turn to sex work

For years, aid workers in central Nepal visited the shadowy spot alongside a darkened highway where transgender sex workers gather each night, offering them free HIV tests and counseling. Today, those aid workers still visit this spot — but this time, as sex workers themselves.

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What to know from the AP's report on the impact of USAID cuts on impoverished aid workers in Nepal

After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs

The Independent UK

Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive

After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs

The Independent UK

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Six years on, why lobbying success for COVID victims’ association in Italy over pandemic mismanagement matters

IN BRIEFClick here for the key takeaways In France notably, during the 1990s, association-led action in the context of the HIV pandemic resulted in the development of “health democracy”. Six years following the onset of COVID, anthropological research focusing on an association for victims’ families in Bergamo, Italy—where the pandemic…

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Trump’s radical cuts against HIV prevention have put decades of progress at risk

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The Independent UK

Trump’s aid cuts force thousands of HIV services to shut – despite US protection pledge

HIV prevention programmes have faced ‘severe and devastating’ disruption – with at least 16,000 health workers having lost their jobs around the world

The Independent UK

Trump’s HIV funding cuts having ‘severe and devastating’ impact around the world

The President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief has saved 26m lives globally, but slashing of funds and dismantling of USAID have forced clinics to shut in dozens of countries

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US actions harm global efforts to prevent and treat HIV in dozens of countries, new report says

A new report says the Trump administration’s disruptions to a global AIDS relief program have forced organizations to close clinics, lay off staff and cut services, seriously impeding efforts to prevent and treat the disease in dozens of countries

The Independent UK

Trump administration puts kibosh on HIV prevention funding

The Trump administration will not renew direct federal funding of community-based organizations that work on HIV prevention, according to multiple groups impacted by the freeze. The move is the latest step in the administration’s push to eliminate funding for DEI-focused initiatives that help the LGBTQ community. But this one directly…

Roll Call

Alcohol, sex and violence: a dangerous cocktail that makes young women vulnerable to HIV

South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world, with adolescent girls and young women aged 15-24 at the highest risk of getting HIV. HIV prevalence among girls and women in this age group is roughly double that of their male peers.

The Conversation

Malawi rolls out injectable HIV prevention drug amid hope and caution

Patrick Chakwana, 50, has lived with HIV since 1999, when there was no effective treatment and the message to those diagnosed was blunt: "Aids kills". Today, as Malawi becomes one of the latest African countries to roll out lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable drug that prevents HIV infection, Chakwana's reaction is…

Radio France Internationale

HIV outbreak in Pakistan: How deadly safety lapses at Sindh hospital put children at risk

At least 78 children have contracted HIV in an outbreak in Pakistan's Karachi linked to serious infection-control and medical waste management failures at a state-run hospital.

The Times of India

Family outraged after teen left to discover her HIV diagnosis through online portal

‘I was just crying. I felt like my life was over’

The Independent UK

Ozempic's Active Ingredient May Slow Biological Aging, First Human Clinical Trial Finds

A clinical trial published in Nature Communications found semaglutide slowed biological aging markers in adults with HIV. Here's what the research actually shows.

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Radio and TV broadcaster Paul Gambaccini diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease

The BBC Radio 2 and Greatest Hits Radio presenter 77, has shared a statement confirming his diagnosis.

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‘I dealt with death, bankruptcy and HIV in three months’: Andreas Angelidakis on his radical, RuPaul-influenced art installation

Spliff in hand, the Greek artist and architect explains how his Venice pavilion was inspired by Picasso’s Guernica, Charlie Kirk’s widow … and a hatred of pavilions

The Independent UK

I fear a new HIV and Aids epidemic is coming – and the world won’t care, UN official warns

At a screening for The Independent’s new documentary ‘Hunted: Kidnapped, blackmailed and tortured for being LGBTQ+,’ UNAIDS official Christine Stegling made clear the danger she sees coming

Evening Standard

Why Terrence Higgins Trust’s work is as vital now as ever

The charity has led the fight against Aids for 44 years — a milestone The Standard celebrates with a gala at the London EDITION with BOSS this week

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Syringe services in limbo under Trump, risking hepatitis C progress

A decade after Congress first allowed federal funding to support clean needle programs, the Trump administration is backing off that policy, potentially risking progress made against hepatitis C, a deadly but curable virus mostly spread by people who inject drugs. The administration now says funding can no longer support programs such as…

Medical Daily

HIV-Positive Patients Face a Much Higher Risk of Anal Cancer, Study Finds

HIV raises anal cancer risk by 8.6 times when poorly controlled and 3.9 times even with good control. Proven screening and vaccination tools exist. Here's what HIV patients need to know.

The Guardian - UK

‘Witch-hunt’ in Niger as military regime rounds up LGBTQ+ population

Fears of resurgence of HIV/Aids amid loss of access to PrEP drugs as at least 40 people arrested in ‘toxic’ climate

The Independent UK

No consensus on UN declaration on AIDS fight for first time in more than two decades

The lack of consensus highlights growing political divisions over HIV policy as international aid funding cuts impact prevention programmes in some of the world’s most affected countries

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Can the World Finally End AIDS? UN Adopts Ambitious New Global Declaration

A few decades ago, an HIV diagnosis was often seen as a death sentence. Families lived in fear, misinformation spread faster than facts, and millions of people around the world lost loved ones to a disease that medicine struggled to understand. Today, the picture looks very different. People living with…

The Independent UK

South African civil groups warn of dire impact as US phases out HIV program funding

Civil society organizations in South Africa says that adolescent girls and women are among the first to feel the impact of U.S. foreign aid cuts

The Independent UK

Voices: I was persecuted like these LGBTQ+ people – we can’t sit back and do nothing

COMMENT: Jide Macaulay is a gay Anglican minister who has spent much of his life helping the most vulnerable LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria. He is clear that Bel Trew’s new documentary ‘Hunted’ has a message that needs to be listened to – and acted upon

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