The extent of poverty in the UK In 2016 the government announced that there were 14 million people living in relative poverty in the UK. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) released a report earlier this year identifying a lack of progress in poverty rates over the last decade and...
Everyone knows we are amid a housing crisis. We hear politicians blaming property developers and see newspapers pointing the finger at immigration. But the issue of property shortage only scratches the surface of our housing catastrophe, which is now at a critical point. House prices have doubled in relation to...
Over the last 35 years in Canada, as many as 4000 Indigenous women and girls have been murdered or have gone missing [1]. These staggering numbers reflect a homicide rate seven times that of non-indigenous Canadian women [2]. Organizations like the UN Human Rights Council, Amnesty International, the Inquiry into...
October 2017 saw the UK National Health Service (NHS) begin a 3-year trial of the Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) drug Truvada1. This once-a-day tablet, likened to taking the contraceptive pill, could significantly reduce the likelihood of uninfected but ‘high-at-risk’ people contracting HIV amongst certain communities2.The United States Food and Drug Administration...