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To end Aids, we must help the vulnerable, not arrest them
There is talk at Melbourne’s International Aids Conference of ending Aids by 2030. But this requires the political will to help drug users and sex workers, rather than criminalising them.
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If Andrew Lansley were to submit a CV for the top humanitarian role at the UN – which David Cameron is nominating him for – what would he write under “relevant experience”?
The president of the World Bank warns the ‘future of Africa is at stake’ as the World Health Organisation issues a 60-day deadline to get the Ebola epidemic under control.
Two people are arrested for conspiracy to commit Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), following an investigation at London’s Heathrow airport.
There is talk at Melbourne’s International Aids Conference of ending Aids by 2030. But this requires the political will to help drug users and sex workers, rather than criminalising them.
Islamic State, which controls of a third of Iraq, orders all girls and women in and around Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the UN says – but there are claims the edict is a hoax.
There are fears that the fight against HIV is in danger as increasing numbers of countries introduce anti-gay laws. Health and Social Care Correspondent Victoria Macdonald reports from Melbourne.
Female genital mutilation used to be a taboo topic. Now attempting to put an end to it is on the prime minister’s to-do list. But how robust can we be in estimating how many women are affected?
An ongoing outbreak of ebola, one of the world’s deadliest diseases, has already cost 467 lives and is being described by some experts as “out of control”. But why is it so lethal?
The Somali Islamist group Al Shabaab says it carried out an attack on the Kenyan coast which left at least 48 people dead. Militants opened fire as football fans gathered to watch the World Cup.
England are seeking revenge against Italy in Brazil on Saturday – but the game will have a very different meaning if the two nations meet again at the Homeless World Cup later this year.
The reported massacre of hundreds of people in South Sudan is an “abomination”, the White House says.
The amount of money paid to support asylum seekers could be reviewed after the Home Secretary Theresa May lost a high court battle.
The World Health Organisation says an outbreak of the incurable disease in Guinea is still “relatively small” compared to past epidemics, after charity workers called it “unprecedented” in scale.
Flags are flown across the country to hail the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. David Cameron calls it a victory for equality.
Inigo Gilmore meets US pastor Scott Lively, one of a group of Americans thought to have influenced a new law in Uganda which carries some of the harshest penalties in the world for openly gay people.