HIV Disclosure Project

09/09/2026

A twice-yearly injection that protects against HIV is not a cost-effective use of NHS resources, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has said. In draft guidance, published on…

09/08/2026

[Opinion piece] HIV Justice Network: The irony of HIV exceptionalism https://share.google/gT8Y5Z66q2CdUBGhs

Maybe topics researched perpetuate HIV exceptionalism

What happens now that HIV is no longer exceptional in global health, but it remains exceptional in law?

09/08/2026

Researchers from UdeM and CRCHUM show that hepatitis C could promote the formation of reservoirs where HIV persists despite treatment.

Researchers from UdeM and CRCHUM show that hepatitis C could promote the formation of reservoirs where HIV persists despite treatment.

09/08/2026

09/07/2026

A huge congratulations to our Board Chair, Dr Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, on being conferred with an honorary Doctor Philosophiae.

A distinguished educator, parliamentarian and diplomat, Dr Pandor has dedicated decades to public service, education, diplomacy and the advancement of peace, human rights and accountability.

We are proud to celebrate this well-deserved recognition of her contribution to South Africa and the world.

Congratulations, Chair. ❤️

09/07/2026

"Good news! 11 countries achieved the 95-95-95 HIV testing & treatment targets in 2025.

Despite the progress, disparities continue to exist: between men and women, and children and adults."

Ending AIDS requires achieving the targets across all populations.
https://unaids.org/en/resources/documents/2026/20260727_special_report_AIDS2026

09/07/2026

https://grungecake.com/grindr-agrees-to-pay-26-million-euros-settlement-over-hiv-data-scandal/news/138188/

Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million in a UK settlement after sharing users' HIV status with advertisers. Get the full story here.

09/07/2026

“When I saw the results, I said, ‘Oh my goodness,’” says Salim Abdool Karim, an epidemiologist who heads CAPRISA. Many attendees felt the same. “It’s showing that there’s so much more resistance to these bNAbs in the real world than we realized,” says Thumbi Ndung’u, a virologist at the Africa Health Research Institute. “This is such an important study.”

Trial failed of supposedly potent antibodies that the leading vaccine candidates aim to trigger

09/07/2026

Brazil’s International Clown Festival brings together around 100 ci...

09/05/2026

On Friday, the UN General Assembly voted 164 to 1 to endorse a new world map, one that finally shows Africa at something closer to its actual size.

The "Correct the Map" resolution was introduced by Togo on behalf of Africa's 54 UN member states, backed by the African Union, and co-sponsored by the Bahamas. It calls on governments, schools, and international institutions to move away from the centuries-old Mercator projection in favor of the Equal Earth projection, a map designed in 2018 by cartographers Tom Patterson, Bernhard Jenny, and Bojan Šavrič specifically to show landmasses in their true relative proportions.

The gap between the two maps is enormous. Under the Mercator projection, created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, Africa and Greenland appear roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland. Mercator's map was never designed to represent size accurately in the first place. It was built for navigation, letting sailors plot a straight course while holding a constant compass bearing, an enormously useful tool during the Age of Exploration. The tradeoff was that regions closer to the poles, like North America, Europe, and Greenland, got visually inflated, while regions near the equator, Africa and South America especially, got visually shrunk.

Togo's Foreign Minister Robert Dussey made the case for why that distortion still matters five centuries later. "Maps shape our understanding of the world," he told the assembly. "They guide education, nourish the imagination, and influence collective perceptions." African Union Deputy Chairperson Selma Malika Haddadi put it more bluntly in earlier remarks to Reuters, saying the Mercator map fosters a false impression that Africa is "marginal," despite being the world's second-largest continent, home to more than 1.4 billion people.

The resolution isn't legally binding and doesn't ban the Mercator map outright. It simply encourages wider adoption of the Equal Earth alternative. France announced ahead of the vote that its foreign ministry would abandon Mercator in its own materials, with Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot noting that under the current standard, "the United States, Russia and China take on a disproportionate visual prominence compared to Africa, Latin America or southeast Asia."

The United States was the only country to vote against the resolution. Six countries abstained.

Moky Makura, executive director of Africa No Filter, one of the campaign's lead organizers, called the current map "the world's longest misinformation and disinformation campaign," adding that it simply "has to stop."