The IAS Conference on HIV Science, which concludes tomorrow, bills itself as "the largest open scientific conference on HIV and AIDS." But IAS requires sizable fees from anyone who wishes to view its livestream. Why have an AIDS conference if its live sessions are the exclusive province of a select few?
Read MoreFebruary 17, 2021: In a joint statement, AIDS-Free World and the HIV Legal Network announce the public release of a long-delayed report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The report is an historic denunciation of Jamaica's colonial-era homophobic laws. (Photo: Chris Ford)
Read MoreDecember 1, 2020: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has issued a scathing report in support of an AIDS-Free World petition arguing that the discriminatory sections of the Offences Against the Person Act violate the rights of LGBTI Jamaicans.
Read MoreJune 12, 2019: In newly published research in the Health and Human Rights Journal, AIDS-Free World’s Sarah Bosha and researchers from the Eck Institute and the University of the Gambia assess the impact of former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh’s fraudulent HIV cure. (UN Photo / Amanda Voisard)
Read MoreDecember 3, 2018: AIDS-Free World has learned that the leadership of UNAIDS is actively working to suppress a report produced by an Independent Expert Panel (IEP) appointed to look into sexual harassment, bullying, and abuse of power at the UN agency. (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
Read MoreSeptember 25, 2018: In an Op-ed in the Toronto Star on the eve of the UN’s first High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis, AIDS-Free World’s Stephen Lewis and Georgia White appeal for safer drugs to battle multi-drug-resistant TB. (Photo: ©AIDS-Free World)
Read MoreMay 31, 2018: Three survivors of Yahya Jammeh’s fraudulent and destructive HIV and AIDS “treatment programme” have filed a legal action in the High Court of The Gambia, suing the former Gambian president, seeking financial damages for harm suffered and a declaration from the High Court that their human rights were violated. (UN Photo / Joshua Kristal)
Read MoreDecember 2017: AIDS-Free World shares an update on our activities at the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, this year. (Photo: ©AIDS-Free World)
Read MoreDecember 5, 2017: (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire) — Three survivors of former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh’s fraudulent AIDS “cure” recounted their harrowing experiences and their determination to bring the dictator to justice during a press conference at the 19th International Conference of AIDS and STIs (ICASA) in Africa today. AIDS-Free World is working in concert with the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, Gambian lawyers, and international partners to support the survivors and relatives of those who died at Jammeh's hands to pursue all possible legal avenues in their search for justice. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
Read MoreDecember 1, 2017: AIDS-Free World will be holding a press conference on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, ICASA, with survivors of the former president of The Gambia's counterfeit AIDS 'cure'. (UN Photo / Amanda Voisard)
Read MoreAugust 4, 2017: AIDS-Free World's Georgia White examines the steep uphill battle ahead in the fight against HIV and AIDS. (Photo: shutterstock.com)
Read MoreFebruary 7, 2017: Richard Elliott and Stephen Lewis speak out against the 'witch hunt' of HIV criminalization in an editorial for the Toronto Star.
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