Category: Advocacy Campaigns

Experts across the world agree that HIV criminalisation is bad for public health and violates human rights.From the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (“UNAIDS”) to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (“African Commission”), the consensus is that criminalising HIV is a barrier to the interventions that… Continue reading Challenging HIV Criminalisation in the East African Community: A Brief for Parliamentarians

After the first COVID-19 case was detected in the SADC region in early March 2020, countries imposed restrictions or lockdowns of differing intensity and duration as an urgent response in dealing with the health crisis posed by the pandemic. These measures disrupted social and economic life and access to health services, many of which were… Continue reading Covid-19 Rapid Assessment

We stand on the brink of a watershed decision for global health. For many years, health has been under-resourced by governments around the world; and political commitments to overcoming these resource constraints have remained largely unfulfilled. This passive but devastating apathy is directly responsible for millions of unnecessary deaths every year, from preventable and treatable… Continue reading Global Day of Action for Health Funding: Letter to World Leaders