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Edith is a writer and journalist. Through her writings, she advocates for women, people with HIV, and other minoritised groups. Coming from the highest HIV prevalent community in Kenya, she is passionate about equitable access to HIV testing, prevention, and treatment in marginalised populations. Edith first joined our Emerging Voices programme in 2021. Twitter: @oedithknight

Epidemiology

Much lower HIV knowledge and access to testing for people with disabilities globally

News
10 July 2024
Improving HIV care

South Africa clinics pilot Undetectable equals Untransmittable app to support HIV counselling

News
19 June 2024
PrEP programmes & uptake

PrEP in pictures: these photos highlight factors influencing women’s use of PrEP in Kenya

News
7 June 2024
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Six years after pregnancy, almost half of women with HIV in Tanzania have dropped out of care

News
31 May 2024
Mpox (monkeypox)

‘I felt like I was dirty’: experiences of gay men diagnosed with mpox in England

News
8 May 2024
Improving HIV care

Adolescent mothers with HIV in South Africa have poorer HIV outcomes than non-mothers, study finds

News
16 April 2024
Infant feeding

To breastfeed or not: mothers living with HIV in African countries still unclear on what to do

News
8 April 2024
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Major knowledge gaps on social harms after HIV partner notification

News
16 February 2024
Behaviour change interventions

PrEP marketing should not be a story about HIV, but a story about young women

News
23 January 2024
Improving HIV care

Huge fall in deaths after improving meningitis care for people with HIV in African hospitals

News
11 January 2024
Viral load

Adolescents with HIV in Zimbabwe are not being told why an undetectable viral load matters

News
20 December 2023
Improving HIV care

'Swimming amongst crocodiles': How HIV services are provided in conflict zones across Africa

News
14 December 2023
HIV testing policies & guidelines

HIV self-testing in Africa: is the private sector key to reducing undiagnosed HIV?

News
13 December 2023
Prisoners

Locked up and forgotten: African prisoners have been left behind in the fight against HIV

News
12 December 2023
Ageing & HIV

Africa's health systems should urgently integrate HIV and co-morbidity services for older people with HIV

News
11 December 2023
PrEP programmes & uptake

Offering PrEP to all pregnant women just as effective as focusing on those at higher risk of HIV

News
21 November 2023
PrEP programmes & uptake

Are peer approaches the 'silver bullet' for increasing PrEP uptake in low-resource settings?

News
10 August 2023
Hepatitis C treatment

Breaking down the silos: integrating hepatitis C 'test and treat' services into ART clinics is possible

News
9 August 2023
Human rights

What’s happened to services for key populations in Uganda following the Anti-Homosexuality Act?

News
1 August 2023
PrEP programmes & uptake

Here is what transgender women across Asia want in PrEP

News
31 July 2023
Heterosexual men

Social network intervention increases HIV self-testing among African fishermen by 50%

News
27 July 2023
Transgender people

Trans women with HIV in South Africa far from reaching 95-95-95 targets

News
17 July 2023
Improving HIV care

Same-day viral load test installed in Uganda, but people with HIV still received results months later

News
20 June 2023
HIV prevention policy

Half of new HIV cases in African women could have been prevented had more programmes targeted men

News
1 June 2023