Americas

Astraeus O'Levin, a transgender woman living in Mombasa, Kenya, visits the the Hapa-Kenya resource centre last year in Mombasa. (Dylan Robertson photo courtesy of The Canadian Press)
LGBTQ+ Africans look to Canada for help as anti-gay laws expand
Students at Bethel Church's School of Supernatural Ministry students worship enthusiastically. (Max Whittaker photo courtesy of SFGate)
Exporting conversion therapy
In 2023, a medical clinic officer examines a transgender patient at a USAID-supported anti-AIDS clinic in Uganda. (Abubaker Lubowa photo courtesy of Reuters)
In Uganda, AIDS-fighting drop-in centers have closed, UN reports
Organization plans more social activities for Guadeloupe’s LGBT community
Haitian lesbians face dangers at home and in the U.S.
Woman in South Africa walks past a wall covered with ads supporting the fight against HIV/ AIDS. (Denis Farrell photo courtesy of AP / Cruxnow.com)
UN says US aid cuts are hurting global fight against AIDS
Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng
Transgender in the U.S.? Trans people in Chile are treated better
District Judge Amir H. Ali
Prospects for reviving U.S. foreign aid grow even darker
Abandoned by the U.S., African HIV fighters must revise their strategies
U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo courtesy of Reuters/Al Jazeera)
For Trump, ignorance about Africa is a joking matter
This Cameroonian woman is a patient at the KIDSS anti-AIDS program, which had been funded by USAID and run by Catholic Relief Services and the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon. (Photo courtesy of CRS)
LGBTI in Cameroon: U.S. ends anti-HIV programs, leaving only homophobic clinics
Demonstrators in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5 protest against the shutdown of the U.S. foreign aid agency USAID. (Demetrius Freeman photo courtesy of The Washington Post)
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s foreign aid freeze, but the freeze continues
A patient and the medical machinery keeping him alive. (Blake Farmer photo courtesy of WPLN News / Oregon Live)
Commentary: Cutting off USAID is like unplugging life support
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts (Photo courtesy of AP and the Los Angeles Times)
Update: Delay of court rejection of Trump on foreign aid; possible appeal of refugee ruling
District Judge Amir H. Ali
Two courts reject Trump’s foreign aid freeze and refugee ban
Scene lasf month at famine relief program in Gaza (Hatem Khaled photo courtesy of Reuters)
Millions learn that U.S. promise to continue life-saving foreign aid was false