SHE & Rights: Countering anti-rights pushes and upholding human right to health and gender equality

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We invite you to the 49th SHE & Rights session on the theme: “Countering anti-rights pushes and upholding human right to health and gender equality,” scheduled on Friday, 28th August 2026, at 3:30pm Sri Lanka/ India time (12noon South Africa/ Zimbabwe/ Geneva).

Justice unbound: Shobha Shukla’s urgent warning against the global rollback of gender and health rights

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In a powerful intervention timed for the eve of critical global diplomacy, Eliva Press today (12th August 2026) released "Justice Unbound: Feminist Voices on Gender Equality, Health Rights, and Inclusive Futures," an exclusive compilation of 14 hard-hitting reports by veteran feminist, health and development justice advocate Shobha Shukla. Written between January and June 2026, the book documents the “nefarious pushbacks” against gender equality and the human right to health across Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. With only about 53 months remaining to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, Shukla’s work arrives as a stark warning and a call to action.

Put people first: Indonesian advocates demand community-led HIV, TB responses

As the world approaches the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, Indonesian health officials and community advocates are calling for a stronger people-centred response to HIV and TB, saying medical treatment alone cannot overcome the stigma, discrimination, policy barriers and lack of access that keep vulnerable communities from care.

Young women with HIV demand a life without stigma

Not defined by HIV: Generation ready to rise

As India makes progress in preventing new HIV infections among children and inches towards eliminating its vertical transmission (mother to child), young women who have grown up with the virus say the next challenge is ensuring that they can live, work, love and build independent lives without discrimination.

Cambodia's HIV success: How leadership, partnership and communities turned ambition into action

Cambodia's recent achievement of achieving the 95-95-95 HIV-related targets demonstrates what determined national leadership and community partnership can accomplish, said Eamonn Murphy, UNAIDS Regional Director for Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Cambodia is the first and only country in Asia Pacific region so far to do so.

Connecting care: Community-based model transforming TB and HIV services

When every HIV visit becomes a chance to stop TB

TB continues to be the most common opportunistic infection as well as biggest cause of deaths of people living with HIV despite decades of progress in diagnosis, treatment and prevention. TB is preventable and curable but it was not so for over 150,000 people living with HIV who died of TB in 2024, as per latest UNAIDS report 2026 launched at 26th International AIDS Conference 2026 (AIDS 2026).

From the hills of Rio: How communities in Brazil's favelas are reimagining HIV and TB prevention

Some of the most important lessons from the recently concluded AIDS 2026 Conference were learnt not inside the conference halls, but on the steep hillsides of dangerous favelas (urban slums) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Shelves go dry, services collapse, anti-rights forces surge and deepen the crises

Two health and gender rights leaders delivered a stark assessment of what happens when major external funding disappears overnight and organised opposition fills the vacuum. The sudden withdrawal of US government's funding support has not merely reduced services - it has fractured health systems, emptied pharmacy shelves, driven up unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortions, and enabled anti-rights groups.

Asia Pacific leaders warn attacks against health and gender are undoing decades of progress

At a recent global meet, a session cut through the usual conference optimism with a stark warning: the global AIDS response is being hit by a coordinated anti-rights and anti-gender backlash at the precise moment when funding is collapsing.

Why TB still kills: The unfinished fight against a preventable disease

Tuberculosis (TB) programmes worldwide have expanded diagnosis and treatment on a historic scale. Millions of lives have been saved. Yet TB remains the deadliest infectious disease in the world. The gap between progress and elimination is not a mystery of medicine. It is a failure of prevention, politics, and priorities, said Dr Tara Singh Bam, noted global health advocate.

From the brink of defeat how frontline workers supported children to beat TB

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It is deeply disturbing that the world largely forgot children when confronting tuberculosis (TB) - the deadliest infectious disease. Stronger data collection on childhood TB began only about a decade and a half ago, and the first child-friendly formulation was introduced just ten years ago, in Kenya in 2016. At world's largest AIDS conference, the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a special publication was launched by Humana People to People India showcasing four success stories of children (from socially and economically marginalised communities) tiding to cure and health.

African rights groups urge pause to flawed convention on violence against women and girls

Rising attacks against health and gender rights are threatening the global AIDS response. No wonder, a special session on this issue hosted at the world's largest AIDS conference - the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) - was full to capacity. This session put the spotlight on a recent #PauseForPurpose protest organised by a group of African feminists, survivors, women’s rights organisations and legal advocates around the Pan-African Parliament meet on 25th July 2026. This meet was for the African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (AU CEVAWG). They were not there to reject continental action against violence against women and girls. They were there to demand better.

Cuts to prevention and community-led services could spark HIV resurgence in Asia Pacific

Latest report of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) show that one-in-four people living with HIV worldwide who are not receiving the lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, are in Asia Pacific region. This report "United to end AIDS" was released on 27th July 2026 at the world's largest AIDS conference, the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

[video] People living with HIV must protect themselves from other infections, stop antimicrobial resistance

[video] How Lakshadweep became India’s first TB-free territory

[video] Services must follow people, not diseases: Stop treating TB and HIV as separate diseases

[video] TB does not wait. Neither do we: Community-led AI X-Rays saving HIV communities in Delhi

[video] 54 months to end AIDS, TB, Hepatitis, STIs and vertical transmission of HIV in South-East Asia

[video] Artificial intelligence X-Ray screening for TB in people living with HIV is vital

[video] Infection prevention, right & timely diagnosis, right treatment for all infections: prevent AMR

[video] Hidden no more: Social security for workers living with HIV

[video] ILO unveils VCT@Work model to reach informal workers with HIV testing at AIDS 2026

[video] Rising Anti-Rights and Anti-Gender Backlash: Threats to the Global AIDS Response

[video] Pause for Purpose: Analyse if Convention to End Violence Against Women and Girls is fit for purpose?

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[video] Migration and HIV: Lessons learnt from addressing HIV, health and social protection in Odisha

[video] Bhutan’s hard-won HIV and LGBT gains at risk as international funding dries up

[video] Rights are the foundation

[video] Countries used COVID to rollback hard-won rights

World Hepatitis Day 2026: Political will, not just tools, will decide if we end viral hepatitis, TB and AIDS by 2030

As World Hepatitis Day falls on 28 July, the global health community confronts a stark reality: the science to eliminate viral hepatitis, HIV and related epidemics already exists. What remains missing is the political courage, sustained funding and integrated delivery systems to put those tools into the hands of the people who need them most.

54 months to end AIDS and TB: Communities say "Trust us to lead or miss the target"

From India to Eswatini, Kenya to Georgia, Nepal to South Africa, people living with HIV and TB survivors warn that slogans and declarations alone will not deliver the 2030 goals. Only real people-power, funding and partnership will.

SHE & Rights at AIDS 2026: Rising anti-rights and anti-gender backlash: Threats to the global AIDS response

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At 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, join us in hybrid SHE & Rights session on the theme: "Rising anti-rights and anti-gender backlash: Threats to the global AIDS response."