It is hard to protect yourself from HIV when having sterile syringes or condoms can lead to arrest: discrimination is restricting progress in eliminating HIV Forty years after the first cases of Aids were discovered, goals for its global elimination ha…
Flu, cancer, HIV: after Covid success, what next for mRNA vaccines?
The technology was viewed with scepticism before the pandemic but there is now growing confidence about its use It is one of the most remarkable success stories of the pandemic: the unproven technology that delivered the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vac…
Norman Fowler: contaminated blood compensation was doomed to failure
Former health secretary said ministers were worried if they paid compensation to haemophiliacs it might set a precedentA push in the 1980s for compensation for haemophiliacs infected with Aids through contaminated blood was “doomed to failure” because …
Saintmaking: the canonisation of Derek Jarman by queer ‘nuns’
Director Marco Alessi speaks about the genesis of the documentary Saintmaking and working with the Sisters of Perpetual IndulgenceA new Guardian documentary, Saintmaking, tells the tale of a group of queer “nuns” in 90s London who decided to canonise D…
‘Collective strength’: the LRA captive restoring dignity to survivors in Uganda
Kidnapped by Lord’s Resistance Army rebels as a girl, Victoria Nyanjura has pushed through major reforms for victims of abduction and rapeWhen Victoria Nyanjura was abducted from her Catholic boarding school in northern Uganda by members of the Lord’s …