Since the start of the global AIDS/HIV epidemic in the 1980’s, dance studio barres, marley floors, and stage lights have felt the loss of countless choreographers and dancers. Influential figures such as Hideyuki Yano, Arnie Zane, Dominique Bagouet, Jorge … Continue reading
Tag: First Year Voices
First Year Voices, World AIDS Day: HIV Prevention at the Nexus of Gendered Fishing Economies in the Lake Victoria Region
For fishing communities situated along Sub-Saharan Africa’s Lake Victoria, HIV is an ever-present challenge. The lake, a cornerstone of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda’s fishing economies, is also the site of a persistent HIV crisis. Currently, the rate of HIV in … Continue reading
First Year Voices, World AIDS Day: USAID Post-Mortem, What’s Next for HIV Prevention in Nigeria?
Within one week of US President Donald Trump’s January 2025 announcement of Executive Order 14169 to suspend all USAID funding, 36% of organizations that received funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Initiative (PEPFAR) reported having already had … Continue reading
First Year Voices, World AIDS Day: When AIDS Affects the ‘Nobody’
It is no surprise that funding cuts, most notably the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, have weakened countries’ health sectors, making prevention, treatment, and care of Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and in its most advanced form, AIDS, exigent. … Continue reading
