Veronica Dickstein

May 2, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Ryan Doherty |Veronica Dickstein |Bryce Vist |Anusha Gupta

The South African government has a longstanding history of HIV denialism. Throughout his presidency from 1999 to 2008, Thabo Mbeki continually questioned the validity of HIV research. Infamously, he presented his dissenting positions in a letter to world leaders in 2000. In speeches that same year, he stated, “A virus cannot cause a syndrome.

May 2, 2023 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Bryce Vist |Anusha Gupta |Hayden Deffarges |Veronica Dickstein

“What happens to a country without land? Where will we call home?” Such are the considerations facing Tuvalu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, where sea levels are increasing at twice the pace of the worldwide average. Tuvalu, with a population of around 11,000, is spread across a set of extremely low-lying and narrow islands.