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Scientists reach breakthrough on HIV treatment, public understanding lags behind
Scientists are a step closer to developing an antibody treatment for HIV, after the first human trial of a new therapy reduced the amount of virus in patients’ blood. A trial of 17 patients demonstrated that a high dose of a...
Behind the scenes of Antonio Ledezma’s arrest in Venezuela
Political clashes in parts of Venezuela escalated this weekend with the arrest of the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. Ledezma is accused of being part of a foreign plot to force the current administration from power. The a...
What Politicians Did in the Expenses Scandal has been Underestimated. Lance Armstrong Must Not Get Such Kind Treatment
How does one man go from being the perfect hero to a globally loathed ‘lying bastard’? By undertaking and overseeing the most systematic and sophisticated doping programme ever seen in the history of sport. How do MPs crash...
And The Nobel Peace Prize Goes To…
The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Pakistani teenager and girls’ rights advocate, Malala Yousafzai, alongside Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. As most of us already know, Malala Yousa...
Do You Have Skin In The Game?
Do you have ‘skin in the game’? Ayn Rand, Noam Chomsky, and Jérôme Cahuzac, interestingly, do or did not have that. ‘Skin in the game’ refers to a person putting his or her money where his or her mouth is. P...
A Life Phases approach to Gender Based Violence
There lacks a unanimous definition of what Gender Based Violence (GBV) is as it differs in countries, communities and the legal context. Murray Straus, of the University of New Hampshire however echoes it as aggression, as oppo...
