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Catherine Sozi works from Johannesburg, South Africa. Regional Director for UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa Catherine Sozi has over 1088 followers on Twitter.

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What women want: Men to listen and speak out against violence

"Women do not have the power to stop rape. We cannot simply break our silence or act in certain ways to effect change."

  • Catherine Sozi
4 min read
For years, women in South Africa have called on government to lead the charge on ending men’s violence against women. (David Harrison/M&G)
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If you were a girl: Men, this is what you need to understand about women and violence

The body swap is an old Hollywood trope: Boy meets girl, boy swaps bodies with girl, boy has epiphany about love, life and patriarchy

  • Catherine Sozi
5 min read
You can’t treat what you can’t count: No one knows how many people inject drugs in east and southern Africa. (Yannis Behrakis, Reuters)
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Southern Africa’s missing drug users: We can’t treat what we don’t count

No one really knows how many people inject drugs in east and southern Africa and that’s a bigger problem than you think.

  • Catherine Sozi
7 min read
Give a young woman as little as R100 a month and what does it buy her? School supplies, airtime and maybe even enough financial freedom to keep her HIV negative.
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Could R100 a month be enough to keep South Africa’s young women HIV free?

In a world hemmed in by patriarchy and poverty, cash transfers could be the missing link in SA’s HIV prevention programmes.

  • Catherine Sozi
5 min read