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In part three of PHP’s series on LGBT health in Senegal, an NGO assists Senegalese MSM via three education campaigns that emphasize sexual and reproductive health and harm reduction.

Two challenges remain to the “end of AIDS”: the lag between scientific discovery and on-the-ground implementation, and role of stigma in HIV transmission.

Steven Beshear, former Governor of Kentucky, the state that most aggressively embraced and succeeded in implementing the Affordable Care Act as a core part of a holistic strategy to improve its collective health, suggests putting partisan fervor aside.

It was not that long ago that domestic violence was seen as a private family issue, rather than a public health problem of enormous magnitude. Gail Dines argues we have now reached a similar tipping point with pornography.

Sara Satinsky discusses four specific ways that public health practitioners can show up to work on policing reform.

“We now have something tangible that we can work with to take the next step towards diluting this climate of hate which is fueled in large part by economic frustration.”

We are about to witness a major fight over the fate of Obamacare. This is an important moment in U.S. social policy with very serious implications for millions of people. Public health needs to step up and assert its place in the debate over health reform.

Part one of PHP’s four-part series on LGBT health in Senegal.

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