The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), HIV Justice Worldwide, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Stop TB Partnership, the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA),…
Paul Kasonkomona is a respected HIV activist and National Coordinator of Engender Rights-Zambia. On 7 April 2013, Kasonkomona was arrested outside Muvi TV station after he appeared on a television…
11 December 2012–In the week of International Human Rights Day, marked on 10 December, the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern…
THOUSANDS OF CERVICAL CANCER DEATHS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA COULD BE PREVENTED WITH MINIMAL GOVERNMENT ACTION, SAYS NEW RESEARCH Johannesburg, 31 October – Governments in southern Africa must implement comprehensive policies on…
6 August 2012 The Atlantic From the 19th International AIDS Conference, looking at how far we’ve come and how far we have to go before an AIDS-free generation In 1959,…
IOL Three HIV positive women in Namibia have been coercively sterilised in violation of their basic rights, the High Court in Windhoek found. Legal activists have hailed the “landmark” judgment…
Aljazeera Court says Namibia illegally sterilised women Judge rules state coerced three HIV-positive women into operation by forcing them to sign forms they did not understand. Namibia’s government sterilised three…
Three HIV positive women in Namibia have been coercively sterilised in violation of their basic rights, the High Court in Windhoek found. Windhoek, Namibia – Three HIV positive women in…
HIGH COURT FINDS NAMIBIA COERCIVELY STERILISED HIV POSITIVE WOMEN Johannesburg– In a landmark judgment, the High Court in Windhoek found today that the Namibian government had coercively sterilised three HIV-positive…
Two years after 14 commercial sex workers in Mwanza were arrested by police and forced to undergo an HIV test, the issue has now taken a dramatic turn with the…