Category Archives: Black Politics

Impact of Funding Cuts on HIV Services in Sub-Saharan Africa – World AIDs Day 2025

Science has made it possible for people living with HIV, including pregnant women, to live healthy lives and protect their babies from HIV.​But sudden funding cuts in 2025 disrupted essential care.​Swipe to see the impacts in Ghana and across Sub-Saharan Africa➡️​

Learn more: https://www.unaids.org/en/2025-world-aids-day  ​

Programmes serving key populations are vital to slow new HIV infections and accelerate progress toward ending AIDS.​

But funding cuts are undermining these efforts, at a time when HIV is rising fastest among key populations.​

These services are lifelines. We must protect them.​

Favourite People

Daily writing prompt
Who are your current most favorite people?

I think my favourite people are the ones that have stepped in as there have been some holes in my life. Stepped in making me laugh, eating lunch with me, making me feel at home in new places, long phone calls with me, helping me move without being asked and accepting me for who I am.

I just asked my partner and he said he is his favourite person, and I’ll be honest had I known that was an option I may have picked myself tooo!

Extended Contract – Labour Movement is in Shambles

Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?

I worked at a job that started as a 6 week contract that kept getting extended. Now the person I was covering for eventually came back and the company looked for a way to evolve my role. I know it’s cheating and that isn’t really a positive example of “feeling loved” but it is a positive example of feeling appreciated in the workplace which I think on this internet of ours is a rare occurrence.

As we enter 2025, I didn’t make a New Year’s resolution but I decided to trust: trust people, trust the process and most importantly trust myself. I am starting a new blog collection, based on the current labour market and I will start with this as our foundation “Asking your work if they are laying people off is like asking a man if he would ever cheat on you or a woman if she likes money” . . . If you like go and argue with your ancestors 

An intro to the Labour Movement is in Shambles – An examination of work in 2025

HIV in 2024 – Status Update

“In 2023, 630 000 [500 000–820 000] people died from HIV-related causes globally. Since 2010, HIV-related deaths have been reduced by 51%, from 1.3 million [1.0 million–1.7 million]. The global HIV epidemic claimed 69% fewer lives in 2023 since the peak in 2004.

  • 76 000 [53 000–110 000] children died from HIV-related causes in 2023.
  • 560 000 [430 000–730 000] adults died from HIV-related causes in 2023.
  • HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, claiming 42.3 million [35.7–51.1 million] lives so far.”
Global trends in people acquiring HIV and people dying from HIV-related causes,
2010-2023 and projections to 2030

Provided by World Health Organization