Rachel Schraer

3 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Rachel Schraer

At a drop-in centre on Uganda’s border with Kenya, along a busy trucking route, groups of people gather to play Ludo and pick up their HIV medication. It’s a safe space for people from LGBT+ communities who have been turned away or harassed at other facilities. But the centre is now quiet – three-quarters of its staff have had to be laid off after cuts to US aid. Stocks of drugs are running low and most of its regular clients have stopped showing up.

3 weeks ago | the-independent.com | Rachel Schraer

In Focus Uganda has some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world – with same-sex couples facing up to life imprisonment. Rachel Schraer speaks to Ugandans who have run out of HIV medication and finds out how already vulnerable communities are coping From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.

3 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Rachel Schraer

In Focus Uganda has some of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world – with same-sex couples facing up to life imprisonment. Rachel Schraer speaks to Ugandans who have run out of HIV medication and finds out how already vulnerable communities are coping At a drop-in centre on Uganda’s border with Kenya, along a busy trucking route, groups of people gather to play Ludo and pick up their HIV medication.

3 weeks ago | nz.news.yahoo.com | Rachel Schraer

At a drop-in centre on Uganda’s border with Kenya, along a busy trucking route, groups of people gather to play Ludo and pick up their HIV medication. It’s a safe space for people from LGBT+ communities who have been turned away or harassed at other facilities. But the centre is now quiet – three-quarters of its staff have had to be laid off after cuts to US aid. Stocks of drugs are running low and most of its regular clients have stopped showing up.

1 month ago | independent.co.uk | Rachel Schraer

More than 8,000 women and girls are believed to have died from complications during pregnancy or birth in the first 90 days of the president’s aid freezeRachel SchraerGlobal Health CorrespondentMore than 8,000 women and girls are believed to have died from complications during pregnancy or birth as a result of Donald Trump freezing US aid funding after returning to the White House, a toll which could become 34,000 by the end of the year, researchers have warned.