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In 2019, 36,801 Americans were diagnosed with HIV, even though effective treatment and prevention pills can eliminate HIV transmission.

Leaders in Africa and around the world give lip service to addressing underlying causes of terrorism, violent internal conflicts, criminal violence and other threats. In practice, they prioritize militarized responses that are not only abusive of human rights but also ineffective and counter-productive. African conflicts are most often seen in terms of simplistic narratives and applied to the entire continent. But each country is distinct. Most are at peace, afflicted not by war and warlords, but by the less visible kinds of violence that prevail around the world: violence against women or th...

AfricaFocus Bulletins with Material on Politics and Human Rights April 19, 2021  Confronting Global Apartheid Demands Global Solidarity http://www.africafocus.org/docs21/ga2104.php     "The COVID-19 pandemic has both revealed and deepened structural inequalities around the world. Nearly every country has been hit by economic downturn, but the impacts are unevenly felt. Within and across countries, the people who have suffered most are those already disadvantaged by race, class, gender, or place of birth, reflecting the harsh inequality that has characterized our world for centuries." ...

The S-400 Knot in U.S.-Turkey Relations: Assessing the Viability of U.S. Sanctions Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets Russian President Vladimir Putin in January 2020. (President of the Russian Federation, https://tinyurl.com/y5hpqcu5; CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) The U.S.-Turkey relationship fractured along numerous fault lines in recent years. President Trump’s refusal to implement sanctions required by the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) for Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems has dra...