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Edwin J Bernard AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.27 July 2026.OP01. Openning Session.In the photo: Protests AIDS 2026, the biennial global conference on all things HIV, closed on July 31 after a week of…

Param Khandekar Prominent Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has been on a hunger strike in Delhi since 28 June 2026 demanding the resignation of the education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged irregularities in examinations to study medicine.…

 Mohammad S Razai, Maide Baris, Hossein Dabbagh, and Muhammad Asghari The US-Israeli strikes on universities, schools, research centres, and hospitals in Iran are attacks on the civilian systems that sustain the functioning of a society. The rhetoric…

Tonia Frame, Fred Nunes, and Dana Repka In Grenada, as across much of the English‑speaking Caribbean, many adolescents begin navigating sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs well before adulthood, often in contexts shaped by stigma and limited…

Kyle Knight and Alex Müller The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced last week that they are going to genetically sex test all women athletes. The newly announced policy follows a secret process the IOC initiated last year, ostensibly to…

Krishraj Singh Sikarwar and Princy Singh Sikarwar Global night sky brightness increased by nearly 10% every year between 2011 and 2022, which is more than an astronomical inconvenience. Artificial light at night (ALAN) also has an adverse effect…

Tejas Sateesha Hinder India’s Transgender Rights Bill, 2026 proposes to replace “self-perceived gender identity” with a system of state certification which marks a shift in how the law understands identity itself, moving from recognition based on…

Suhana Roy In January 2026, India’s Supreme Court delivered a transformative judgment recognizing access to menstrual health and hygiene as an integral component of the right to life, dignity, and bodily autonomy under article 21 of the Constitution…

Guilia Bosi In 2025, for the first time, global rates of obesity among school-age children and adolescents exceeded those of underweight children, establishing it as the predominant form of malnutrition, as noted in the UNICEF Child Nutrition Report…

Zazie Huml On November 13, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a revised funding notice for the Continuum of Care program—the central federal mechanism for financing permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and the…