Creator
Linda-Gail Bekker
Professor Linda-Gail Bekker is the director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town. She is a past president of the International Aids Society.
People living with HIV are at high risk of non-communicable diseases
Keeping them healthy necessitates an revolution in health systems and how they are financed, especially in poorer communities
#AIDS2016: New science may put the power to prevent HIV in women’s hands
Being able to take a pill discreetly, as women have done with contraceptives since the 1950s, is an HIV prevention revolution.
Turning the tide against TB: Treatment alone won’t work
The global TB rate has been falling by 1.5% per year – far slower than the 10% yearly declines needed to end TB within twenty years.