The US cuts challenge African funders and governments to provide new models of PrEP access
A high-level panel discussion convened at the 13th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2025) in Kigali, Rwanda drew together representatives from global funding foundations, national health ministries, and advocacy and study organisations to debate the future of HIV PrEP in Africa in the wake of the severe cuts to US funding.
While all panellists acknowledged the scale of the test facing the continuation of PrEP and HIV prevention programmes, the session adopted a constructive and at times even optimistic message on how the ‘PrEP crisis’ could be an opportunity to recast provision so it fits the needs of people at risk of HIV improved and more economically.
The session dealt with the issue of how the momentum towards long-acting PrEP drugs could be maintained – which will be covered in another article – but dealt with much broader issues of PrEP provision, in particular how to deliver it in a way truly aligned with public health programmes rather than with medical ones.
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'Every word has arrive back to haunt me': China cracks down on women who write homosexual erotica
Yi Ma
BBC News
Reporting fromLondon
Eunice Yang
BBC Chinese
Reporting fromHong Kong
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"I've been warned not to converse about it," the woman wrote, before revealing snippets of the day she says she was arrested for publishing gay erotica.
"I'll never forget it - being escorted to the car in full view, enduring the humiliation of stripping naked for examination in front of strangers, putting on a vest for photos, sitting in the chair, shaking with scare, my heart pounding."
The handle, Pingping Anan Yongfu, is among at least eight in recent months which have joint accounts on Chinese social media platform Weibo of creature arrested for publishing gay erotic fiction. As authors recounted their experiences, dozens of lawyers offered pro bono help.
At least 30 writers, nearly all of them women in their 20s, acquire been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer defending one told the BBC. Many are out on bail or awaiting trial, but some are still in custody. Another lawyer told the BBC that many more contributors were summo
North Devon in 100 Objects: 71. John Gay’s Chair
This leather chair with hinged writing-ledge and inkwell is a 19th century copy of a chair believed to have been used by John Gay (the authentic is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London).
John Gay is Barnstaple’s most famous literary figure, now remembered for The Beggar’s Opera, written in 1728. The playwas a smash smack and was said to have made its producer, John Rich – rich. There have been several revivals of The Beggar’s Opera which was also the inspiration for the 1928 Threepenny Opera of composer Kurt Weil and dramatist Bertold Brecht.
John Homosexual was born in Barnstaple in 1685 in what is now Joy Street. He left the town after finishing at the Grammar School, at that time in St Anne’s Chapel, and did all his writing in London, where he was a friend and contemporary of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. It was difficult to form a living as a poet at that time, and Gay was dependant on rich benefactors. He died in 1732 and is buried in Westminster Abbey. His tomb bears some of Gay’s most renowned lines: “Life’s a jest and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it.”
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Roxane Gay Appointed Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies
Roxane Gay, an internationally recognized writer, editor, cultural critic and educator, has been selected as the next Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Society and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
“I am truly honored to serve as the unused Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers," Gay said. "I hike and work in the footsteps of the many feminists and womanists who came before me, and Gloria is one of the giants among those women. I look forward to joining and contributing to a vibrant intellectual community both on and beyond campus."
The Rutgers Board of Governors approved Gay’s appointment.
Gay’s pursuit of social justice makes her appointment especially powerful as she brings a commitment to centering underrepresented voices along with deep and broad experience in media. Her three-year tenure will be celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 20 with a public conversation about contingent civil rights centered around Roe v. Wade as well as marriage equality and trans equality.