AIDS Lessons for Covid-19 Published in Daily Maverick, 9 April 2020 A 55-year-old man is not very well. It’s dominating the British media. We’re being fed a mix of infomercials disguised as stories (trying to enforce poorly presented health promotion messages) and barely disguised panic about what happens if (don’t say it out loud) a […]
Covid-19 puts Britain’s NHS in intensive care Published in Maverick Citizen, 7 April 2020 It feels indecent to be pointing fingers, when – as I write – Boris Johnson, the architect of the UK’s national response to Covid-19, is being wheeled into an intensive care ward in one of the best NHS hospitals in London. […]
Sarah’s story Redux – sadly. 28/01/2020 I spent Mothers Day 2011 in Hammanskraal – a poor informal settlement about an hour’s drive from Pretoria, South Africa’s capital city. My friend Anna & I were visiting a family we love dearly; my second family. We took bags of fried chicken, mealies, fizzy pop and lots of […]
An interview about feminist leadership, building movements and applying a gender lens to the HIV space. Join the conversations at the Conference: 5 March 2020, London UK Q: Women in Dev will bring together women at every stage of their career. What is the piece of advice that you most often give? And what was […]
Published in Maverick Citizen, 3 December 2019 I chaired this vibrant discussion between Farhana Yamin & Mark Heywood at the expert gathering of movement leaders and movement lawyers, Power of Law, Power of People, in Bellagio in September. The lively and energetic discussions inform my new book, and help to build learning across the movements: […]
How to Build a SRHR Movement Published in Devex, 11 July 2019 A couple of months after I left SheDecides I sat back to reflect on the great things we learned & my proudest moments Today is World Population Day, and 25 years after the revolutionary International Conference on Population and Development took place in Cairo, […]
Each year, 200 million women have an unmet need for modern contraception, more than 45 million women receive inadequate or no antenatal care, 1 million women and girls acquire HIV, and 25 million abortions are unsafe. These numbers illustrate huge gaps in access to basic sexual and reproductive health services, posing serious challenges to achieving […]
The survival, health and wellbeing of women, children and adolescents are essential to achieving the SDGs. January 2016 marked the beginning of a new era for health and development. It was the start of Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and its accompanying sustainable development goals (SDGs).1 All governments have committed to this ambitious sustainable […]
Published in Huff Post September 2013 2013 sees the UK back in the Chair of the G8. What a great opportunity. Not only because of the great results last time, but importantly because experts tell us that a big push now can totally change the future course of AIDS, and also of TB and malaria. […]
Young mothers and their children at a U.N. Development Program-sponsored health clinic in Myanmar. The youth must be included in conversations about reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. It’s been just one month since I joined The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, and already I’ve heard some remarkable stories. I’m just back […]