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Lesbians in Senegal are left out of the gay rights movement organized around HIV prevention and treatment. And they're also left out of the women's movement: "Some women's groups ... don't want to have anything to do with gay women," says Ndeye Kebe.

Lesbians in Senegal just want a place where they can be themselves

Culture

Gay sex in Senegal is illegal, but there is the beginnings of a gay rights movement there. Unfortunately, it doesn’t include gay women.

In an interview with PRI's The World, UNAIDS director Michel Sidibe celebrated successes against the epidemic, but stressed the challenges faced by young women.

Women and girls are a new frontier in the fight against HIV

Development

This gay Chinese man passed on his HIV infection to his wife. But she doesn’t know that.

Health
Kai Brothers wants to share his good luck with others by helping scientists develop a novel treatment for HIV.

This man hopes doctors can learn how to stop HIV by studying him

Health
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV particles infecting a human H9 T cell, colorized in blue, turqoise, and yellow.

A new study suggests the HIV virus may be getting weaker

Science
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A nurse tests a blood sample during a free HIV test at a blood tests party, part of a campaign to prevent HIV infection among male same-sex couples, in Bangkok September 20, 2014.

Controlling AIDS by treating AIDS

Health

Can we treat our way out of the AIDS epidemic? On World AIDS Day we’re partnering up with The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health for a discussion about the “treatment as prevention” strategy for eradicating AIDS.

Dr. Robert Sappenfield with his son Bob, Dorchester, 1988

Why this photographer takes portraits of the dying

Arts

Nicholas Nixon has spent much of his career taking pictures of the dying, including a series of portraits of AIDS victims during the 1980s, when fear of the disease ran high and few people knew victims.

Here’s why Mandela came late to the AIDS crisis in his country

Health & Medicine

While AIDS was running rampant in South Africa, President Nelson Mandela did little about it. Then his son died of it. Mandela took up the cause, but not his successor.

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