Dealing with HIV and AIDS: id21 insights, issue 64

Twenty-five years of knowingly living with HIV, the global community is still falling behind the virus in its alarming, complex and often hidden progress. Despite many diverse and creative successes in committed peoples’ responses and many lessons drawn along the way, few have been widely adopted.

What can we learn from this diversity of response?

This issue of id21 insights features examples of real-life responses and asks: how can we
move forward to catch up with the virus?

Articles included:

• Talking freely about sexuality in Zambia: Gordon, G
• Can a workshop change stigma?: Clay, S & Chiyya, C
• Managing masculinity in Ecuador: Harris, C
• Life and dignity: standing up against homophobia: Hernández, J. J.
• Sex workers have rights too: Seshu, M. & Shivdas, M.
• HIV positive men as responsible citizens and patients: Robins, S.
• Global communities respond to HIV/AIDS: Nguyen, V-K.
• Rural Uganda making sense of HIV/AIDS: Barnett, T.
• Community and faith-based groups lend a hand: Foster, G.
• Preventing intimate partner violence and HIV: Pronyk, P. & Kim,J.