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Close-up of Saidy Brown wearing a gray shirt

At 14, she tested positive for HIV — now she calls herself an HIVictor

Sexuality

“I’m just that person. I’m like, dude — I’m HIV-positive.”

Close-up of woman holding white silicone vaginal ring

The key to stopping HIV could someday be a vaginal ring or a needle in the butt

Sexuality
Abu-Baker Sebeela stands in a tavern holding up a pamphlet

Why violence is linked to the rising rate of HIV in South Africa’s young women

Conflict
Children run past a mural painting of an Aids ribbon at a school in Khutsong Township, 74 km (46 miles) west of Johannesburg, August 22, 2011.

Want to learn about sex? In South Africa, just turn on the radio.

Media
Close-up of the face of Nhlanhla, an HIV positive teen mom in South Africa.

At 16, she found out she was pregnant and HIV positive. That’s when she found her strength.

Health
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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.

AWL

Across Women’s Lives is hitting the road, and we need your help

Development

AWL is hitting the road to cover the lives of adolescent girls who have been diagnosed with HIV. But before we go, we want to ask you a few questions.

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

There’s a lot to celebrate right now in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Mortality rates have been slashed, and for the first time ever, more people are getting treatment than not. But for women and young girls, the news is still grim.

Amy Wright used to shoot up in alleys like this in downtown Toronto. Now she's helping the city design its safe injection sites.

What’s one way to prevent opioid overdoses? Toronto plans three supervised injection sites.

Health

At supervised injection sites, users get clean needles and a booth where they can inject drugs while a nurse watches. The nurse can help with the injection if need be.

Lt. Maya Breslavski and her team detain a drunk driver after he attempted to flee the scene.

Drug users are presumed criminals in Ukraine. New police training is aimed at changing that.

Conflict

Ukraine has one of the fastest-growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world. One of the main reasons: intravenous drug use. But just outside the capital Kiev, a group is working with police to change their approach toward drug users — to treat addiction as an illness, not a crime.

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