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Motherly Love Orphanage

This orphanage in Ghana provides hope — and acceptance — to children living with HIV

Development & Education

Motherly Love Orphanage was founded by Rev. John Azumah 14 years ago. The pastor, who also has HIV, founded the home to provide hope and fight against the stigma faced by HIV-positive orphans. 

UNICEF says 50% of children living with HIV in Africa will die before they reach their second birthday if untreated.

Pregnant women and children with HIV in Ghana struggle to access lifesaving medicine during pandemic

COVID-19
A nurse hands out a red ribbon to a woman, to mark World AIDS Day, at the entrance of Emilio Ribas Hospital, in Sao Paulo December 1, 2014.

Brazil reduces sex education amid spike in sexually transmitted infections

Health & Medicine
a drop of blood being placed onto a slide

A second HIV patient has been ‘cured,’ but researchers say reducing cases is still the top priority

A nurse is shown taking blood for a HIV test from French President Emmanuel Macron who is sitting in a yellow chair cringing.

AIDS treatment has progressed, but without a vaccine, suffering still abounds

Health & Medicine
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These Kenyan widows are fighting against sexual ‘cleansing’

Lifestyle & Belief

In some rural parts of Kenya, widowhood means you’re of little value. Culturally, widows are considered impure, and tradition dictates that they must be cleaned — or “cleansed” — of their partners’ death. The aim is to chase away the demons; the ritual requires women to have sex — either with a relative or stranger.

Mulaba Habanyama, 24, preparing her Gingerbread Tiramisu

At pop-up eatery in Canada, HIV education is on the menu

Health

For two days, chefs who are HIV-positive set up a pop-up restaurant in Toronto to dispel ignorance about people with the disease. The idea was hatched after a survey found that nearly half of Canadians would not eat a meal prepared by someone who’s HIV-positive.

A distorted map is projected based on population living with HIV. In this map, South Africa is the largest country in the world.

In South Africa, HIV rates are rising in young women and girls. Our new series looks at the reasons why.

Lifestyle

Across Women’s Lives travels to South Africa to meet those on the front lines of the fight to stop the rising rate of HIV in young women.

The grip of HIV and tuberculosis in South Africa: Portraits of survivors and those who are gone

Health

Three years ago, photographer Misha Friedman traveled to South Africa. He went to Gugulethu, a township near Cape Town, to photograph several women living with HIV and tuberculosis. This year, he went back to try and find the women again. Some have since died. Friedman has now produced a new portrait series — focusing in part on those who were left behind and on the ongoing HIV crisis in South Africa — a country with the highest infection rate in the world.

Yana, 40 (left) with her social worker Olga. Yana has recently been released from prison and Olga helps Yana readjust to the everyday life. Mariupol 2016.

Stigma, discrimination, violence: Among the internally displaced in Ukraine with HIV (Photos)

Conflict

There are 1.7 million internally displaced people, according to the Ukrainian government. But international organizations think the true number could be higher. There is now a government ministry to handle the displacement crisis, but the task of helping some groups is huge. One group in particular need is those whom are HIV positive where access to anti-retroviral medications is particularly difficult.