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Outreach: Esther (centre), a staff member of the nongovernmental organisation Lady Mermaid’s Bureau, which advocates for the human rights of female and bisexual sex workers, distributes items to those who have been hard hit by the lockdown in Uganda. (Sumy Sadurni/AFP)
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Sex workers abandoned as Covid-19 crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts

Controlling Covid-19 may worsen Africa’s HIV epidemic by stopping state and civil society health services built up over 35 years

  • Lydia Namubiru, The Continent
  • Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu
  • Kerry Cullinan
8 min read