Edith Magak

Edith is a writer and journalist. Through her writings, she advocates for women, people with HIV, and other minoritised groups. Coming from the highest HIV prevalent community in Kenya, she is passionate about equitable access to HIV testing, prevention, and treatment in marginalised populations. Edith first joined our Emerging Voices programme in 2021. Twitter: @oedithknight

Improving HIV care

Adolescent mothers with HIV in South Africa have poorer HIV outcomes than non-mothers, study finds

Infant feeding

To breastfeed or not: mothers living with HIV in African countries still unclear on what to do

HIV testing policies & guidelines

Major knowledge gaps on social harms after HIV partner notification

Behaviour change interventions

PrEP marketing should not be a story about HIV, but a story about young women

Improving HIV care

Huge fall in deaths after improving meningitis care for people with HIV in African hospitals

Viral load

Adolescents with HIV in Zimbabwe are not being told why an undetectable viral load matters

Improving HIV care

'Swimming amongst crocodiles': How HIV services are provided in conflict zones across Africa

HIV testing policies & guidelines

HIV self-testing in Africa: is the private sector key to reducing undiagnosed HIV?

Prisoners

Locked up and forgotten: African prisoners have been left behind in the fight against HIV

Ageing & HIV

Africa's health systems should urgently integrate HIV and co-morbidity services for older people with HIV

PrEP programmes & uptake

Offering PrEP to all pregnant women just as effective as focusing on those at higher risk of HIV

PrEP programmes & uptake

Are peer approaches the 'silver bullet' for increasing PrEP uptake in low-resource settings?

Hepatitis C treatment

Breaking down the silos: integrating hepatitis C 'test and treat' services into ART clinics is possible

Human rights

What’s happened to services for key populations in Uganda following the Anti-Homosexuality Act?

PrEP programmes & uptake

Here is what transgender women across Asia want in PrEP

Heterosexual men

Social network intervention increases HIV self-testing among African fishermen by 50%

Transgender people

Trans women with HIV in South Africa far from reaching 95-95-95 targets

Improving HIV care

Same-day viral load test installed in Uganda, but people with HIV still received results months later