HIV – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

17 Oct

US aid cuts severely undermine Senegal’s fight against HIV

RileyLatest NewsHealthcare, HIV, International, Reproductive rights

By reducing staff and access to treatment, the suspension of USAID and other funding threatens the country’s progress in HIV care

13 Oct

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, HIV, International, Maldives, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights

In a landmark public health achievement, the World Health Organization (WHO) has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for EMTCT of HIV and syphilis. This makes the Maldives the first country in the world to achieve ‘triple elimination’.

30 Aug

Mangroves, Violins, & Corals

JordanLatest NewsBotswana, Healthcare, HIV, International, Reproductive rights

Now, Botswana has one of the world’s most successful HIV-elimination programs, with interventions that slashed the mother-to-child transmission rate to under 1% over the course of just two decades. Fewer than 100 HIV-positive infants are born annually, an event so rare that each case is evaluated to determine how it happened.

14 Apr

We are flying blind’: RFK Jr.’s cuts halt data collection on abortion, cancer, HIV and more

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion, Abortion data, cancer, data collection, HIV, RFK Jr., STI data, United Sates

“The federal teams that count public health problems are disappearing — putting efforts to solve those problems in jeopardy. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purge of tens of thousands of federal workers has halted efforts to collect data on everything from cancer rates in firefighters to mother-to-baby transmission of HIV and syphilis to outbreaks of drug-resistant gonorrhea to cases of carbon monoxide poisoning….”

24 Jul

Women living with HIV continue to face violations of their sexual and reproductive rights—including coercion into sterilization

DoryLatest NewsHIV, International, Reproductive Coercion, Reproductive rights

Women living with HIV including women from key populations continue to suffer widespread reproductive coercion, mistreatment, and neglect when seeking reproductive health services and rights around the world, a new report by the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) has revealed today. The report was launched at a joint ICW/UNAIDS event at the 25th International AIDS Conference taking place in Munich, Germany.