Fury as Anglican priest calls for prayers for Prince George to be gay
A call by a senior Scottish Episcopal Church minister for LGBTQ rights supporters to pray that Prince George turns out to be gay has been described as a “curse”. The Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, head of St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow, suggested that if the young prince came out, this could finally make the Church of […]
South Africa still has four critical gaps to fill before it sees the end of AIDS
South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV in the world. It accounts for up to one third of new HIV infections globally. In 2016 there were an estimated 7.1 million people living with HIV. In the same year close to 10 million people were tested for HIV. But huge strides are […]
Justice Edwin Cameron | We must fight stigma
This year we mark the world’s thirtieth World AIDS Day. From 1 December 1988, every year, the world has observed a special day for this terrible, potentially deadly, deeply stigmatised disease that afflicts some 40 million people across the world, mainly on our continent, Africa. World AIDS Day 1988 was marked in deepest gloom. Just […]