Fellows & Editors
Hannah McNeish
- Trip:
- Durban 2016
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- South Africa
- Year:
- 2016
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Hannah McNeish is a British freelance journalist who has been based in East Africa for more than five years. Previously, she lived in and reported from Madagascar, the UK and Chile. She has reported extensively on conflict across the continent and focuses on human rights stories across a range of topics for a variety of publications including The Guardian, BBC and Al Jazeera.
Stories
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Condom Couture and Other Ways to Fight AIDS With Art
After 20 years of doing “condom couture,” Adriana Bertini knows she can make a dress out of old condoms in about 50 hours. But after years of carting bags packed with condom...
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Pregnant and Diagnosed with HIV: The Group Providing Support for Mothers
Thirteen years ago, when Babalwa Mbono was eight months pregnant with her second child, she went to her clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, to have a routine HIV test. &ldquo...;
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In South Africa, HIV Prevention Starts With Sex Workers
A condom or a coffin. That is the real choice a woman faces when she decides between a man paying 40 to 400 South African rand (around $3 to $30) for sex while wearing a condom,...
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Stigma ‘Killing’ South Africans Living with HIV
Tania has to shout to be heard over music blasting out of a brothel in downtown Durban, South Africa, where dozens of sex workers slouch in chairs under the red glow of...
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Swaziland and HIV: Redrawing What It Means to Be a Man
The 300 or so pictures of "the ideal man" drawn by boys joining a male-mentoring charity in Swaziland are almost always the same. They depict a solitary and solemn figure who appears domineering...
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Busting HIV Myths in Mozambique, One Text at a Time
When Flavia Meringue gets to work in the morning, her inbox is full of intimate questions from children, some as young as 10, asking questions like, “Should I be having sex yet?...
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Mozambique Myth-Busting Helpline Tries to Tackle HIV/AIDS
In Mozambique's Gaza province, if someone makes it to their 35th birthday, "you rejoice", said Shady Zita, an English teacher in a rural secondary school. "You know what? To see someone...
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Swaziland Turns to Anti-Retrovirals as Safe Sex Message Falls Flat
Less than a decade ago, people were warning that Swaziland – a country of about 1.3 million – could be wiped off the map, as HIV cut life expectancy to...
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