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The focus of World AIDS Day this year is on the role that communities have played in response to the epidemic. Hilton Humphries highlights how advocacy and activism have influenced the AIDS response over the past four decades and how the continued involvement of communities is key to reaching global goals of ending the pandemic.
A hashtag is a functional tag widely used in search engines and social networking services to allow people to search for content that falls under a word or phrase, followed by the # sign. First popularised by Twitter in 2009, today nearly anything political with the intent of attracting a wide audience is now branded with a catchy hashtag. But, warns Eugenia Ha Rim Rho, hashtags often have the opposite effect. In fact, they actually make people trust the surrounding information less.
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The fight against AIDS can’t be won without communities.
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Hilton Humphries, Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
Communities continue to be vital in efforts to bring the pandemic under control. They are the custodians of rich knowledge that creates the context in which HIV transmission occurs.
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News outlets sometimes use hashtags to promote their stories.
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Eugenia Ha Rim Rho, University of California, Irvine
When news stories include a catchy hashtag, readers perceived the news topic to be less socially important and more partisan.
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Politics + Society
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Tutku Ayhan, University of Central Florida; Güneş Murat Tezcür, University of Central Florida
Interviews with the Yazidi survivors of IS attacks that killed 3,100 people in 2014 reveal the emotional, cultural and spiritual scars of religious persecution.
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Miriam Bak McKenna, Lund University
What steps can Mauritius take now to get the UK to respect the UN resolution on the Chagos Islands?
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Environment
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Stefan Andreasson, Queen's University Belfast
Divestment doesn't affect global demand for oil, it just transfers power to state-run oil companies – which have higher carbon footprints. But there are other things we can do.
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Emmanuel O. Akindele, Obafemi Awolowo University
Research has found plastic in snails in Nigerian rivers -- another sign that the country needs to manage its waste better.
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En français
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Chloé Maurel, École normale supérieure (ENS)
En 1946, déjà, l’Unesco pensait à internationaliser l’une des plus grandes forêts du monde.
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Christian Chelebourg, Université de Lorraine
Le lancement de Disney+ le 12 novembre 2019 aux États-Unis a réveillé les polémiques sur les anciens dessins animés de la firme.
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