Women’s Legal Centre hails wider import of Namibia sterilisation verdict

Cape Town-based organisation urges action on contraception policy and calls for education and empowerment of women

Forcible sterilisation leaves legacy of pain and stigma for Namibian mothers

'No one has the right to take away my womanhood and leave me at the mercy of the cruel and unfair judgments of my community'

Namibia court rules HIV-positive women sterilised without consent

Sterilisations on three mothers carried out at same time as caesareans, but judge rejects claim that they were targeted because they were HIV-positive

HIV survivors: alive, but facing poverty, loneliness and prejudice

Thousands heading into an old age they did not think they would see, having given up jobs expecting to die young

The end of HIV/Aids may not be possible if the war on drugs continues

Douglas Haddow: The danger in ignoring rising HIV rates among drug users is it could reignite the virus when it enters manageable decline

Indian sex workers are a shining example of women’s empowerment

Andrea Cornwall: As the alternative Aids summit in Kolkata has shown, society should start treating women who work in the industry with respect instead of disgust

Aids conference in Washington and sex workers’ summit in Kolkata – in tweets

Tweets from the International Aids Conference in Washington and the week-long summit and protest in Kolkata

UN ‘way off target’ on promise to end HIV infections in newborn children

Unicef's senior adviser says that more than 330,000 children are being born with HIV every year despite proven treatment

Anti-prostitution pledge in US Aids funding ‘damaging’ HIV response

Activists at Aids conferences demand end to Pepfar conditions that prevent HIV programmes reaching vulnerable groups