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Tanzanians with HIV Left in Crisis as USAID Funding Ends
07 Feb 2025 06:56 GMT
… , Featured, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, North America, … years, Tanzania’s fight against HIV had relied heavily … Bagamoyo before testing for HIV AIDS. Credit: Kizito Shigela … no longer afford their treatment, simply stopped coming. …
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Irish priest and human rights activist honored with Freedom of the City of London
06 Feb 2025 11:03 GMT
… Catholic priest, psychotherapist, and tireless human rights advocate, was honored with the … community and individuals affected by HIV/AIDS.
Catherina Casey, the founder … of LGBTQIA+ individuals, and the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Throughout his career, he …
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Israel follows US, withdraws from UN Human Rights Council
05 Feb 2025 19:44 GMT
… from the United Nations Human Rights Council, UNHRC.
Disclosing … of providing sanctions for abusers of human rights, “allowing them to … antisemitism, instead of promoting human rights.”
“The discrimination against … primary body that aids Palestinian refugees.
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USAID, targeted for closure, has big global impact, from fighting disease to protecting Amazon rainforest
06 Feb 2025 16:04 GMT
… impact around the world:
Protecting the Amazon rainforest and … run South Africa’s HIV/AIDS program through PEPFAR, … promotes awareness of discrimination, violence and hate speech, and … , a human rights group said Thursday.
The group Human Rights Myanmar said …
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Trump withdraws the US from UN Human Rights Council and confirms he wants to end USAID program
05 Feb 2025 00:02 GMT
… United States from the UN Human Rights Council.
Trump announced this on … clean water, HIV/AIDS treatment to energy security and the fight against corruption. The …
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Who Will Manage Global IP Protections?
05 Feb 2025 23:00 GMT
… has further complicated IP protection, with fragmented
enforcement … and tensions over protecting innovation and
public access … issued a
license for HIV medication in
2007, … law with human rights objectives,
especially to protect public interests …
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Suspend Arms Transfers to End US Complicity in Israeli Abuses
05 Feb 2025 18:57 GMT
… and acts of genocide.
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and … a state that significantly aids or assists another state … grave abuses in Gaza, including with US weapons. Human rights and … and reconstruction in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said.
Providing …
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A world without leprosy is a public health and human rights ...
03 Feb 2025 14:48 GMT
Leprosy (also known as Hansen’s disease), once feared as an incurable disease, is now treatable with modern medicine. When diagnosed early and accurately, and treated early with right medicines, it is not disabling too. But leprosy-related stigma and …
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Protecting health care workers in conflict zones
05 Feb 2025 01:19 GMT
… international coalition dedicated to protecting health workers, services … humanitarian organizations including Human Rights Watch, the International … the surge in violence directed toward health … on pandemic preparedness, HIV/AIDS, immunization, climate …
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Fight against HIV in Africa put in jeopardy by suspension of U.S. funding
01 Feb 2025 17:33 GMT
Anti-AIDs workers panic as Trump regime puts millions of lives at risk.
Staff of Pepfar-supported program in Cameroon work to assure that Cameroonians have access to anti-HIV health services. (Photo courtesy of USAID / MSH)
By Jean Jacques Dissoke
In …