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Executive Director of Oxfam International. Passionate about justice & human dignity. Opinions are my own. Winnie Byanyima has over 182574 followers on Twitter.

Through tackling stigma, community leadership and improving education, as well as strengthened global and domestic investment, HIV transmission can be reduced in Madagascar. (Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Madagascar faces an HIV crisis. We can bring it back from the brink

Through tackling stigma, community leadership and improving education, as well as strengthened global and domestic investment, HIV transmission can be reduced

Cuban Doctors arriving in South Africa during the covid-19 pandemic.

Cuba: South-South solidarity saves lives

Partnerships such as Cuba’s with Africa can help drive pandemic responses

Racist systems threaten global health: It’s time to dismantle them

We can tackle inequality in access to medicines by reshaping the systems, policies and practices under which life-saving medicines are produced, priced and distributed

The government’s Aids policies sparked protests like the one pictured in 2001 in Cape Town. (Per-Anders Pettersson / Getty Images)

World leaders can choose the path that ends Aids

World leaders can choose the path that ends Aids

Exceptions and rules: The #NotAll argument ignores the system in which broken cogs function.

​To break free of gender violence, we must all #SayEnough and act

Oxfam is launching a global campaign to change patriarchal beliefs that harm women and girls.

Oxfam International executive director Winnie Byanyima at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in France in December 2015.

​I was a refugee. One touch of humanity helped me start a new life

As the United Nations met to discuss the refugee crisis, Winnie Byanyima, once a refugee, looks at what can be done.

Private finance is not a panacea for development woes

It’s imperative we get a financing for development framework in place to rid the world of destabilising and dehumanising poverty, says Oxfam.

Millions of Africans are missing out on Africa’s economic growth

Income inequalities and illicit capital flows are cheating Africa of its wealth and potential for the investments in crucial sectors.