Editor's note

Transgender women and men who have sex with men are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection. But in many African countries same sex relationships and transgender identifies are criminalised. Makobu Kimani explains how failure to recognise people belonging to these groups makes HIV prevention efforts inaccessible to those who need them most.

And Roger Southhall analyses the similarities between US President Donald Trump and former South African President Jacob Zuma. Both are narcissistic and paranoid leaders, for whom the world of politics revolves around self.

Ina Skosana

Health + Medicine Editor

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Women walk past a mural painted to raise awareness on HIV and AIDS in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. EPA/Dai Kurokawa

HIV in Kenya: high risk groups aren’t getting the attention they need

Makobu Kimani, Kenya Medical Research Institute

The government needs to revise national guidelines to better target PrEP at those that would most benefit from it.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma at the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture. EPA-EFE/Pool

Zuma and Trump: half a world apart, yet similarly paranoid and dangerous

Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand

Trump and Zuma seek to sell explanations of their misfortunes to the socially insecure and economically vulnerable. To an alarming extent they succeed.

Business + Economy

Ghana hopes to benefit from hosting Africa’s free trade area secretariat

Adu Owusu Sarkodie, University of Ghana

Ghana is taking advantage of its strategic location in Africa

Apollo 11 made us believe we could do anything – the truth is it could hasten our downfall

Eric Olson, University of Sheffield

'Saving the planet doesn’t make compelling TV.' A philosopher gives his take on the legacy of the Apollo 11 moon landings.

Politics + Society

Five countries in the eastern Mediterranean are shaking up Europe’s energy map

Khaled Kesseba, Sheffield Hallam University; Konstantinos Lagos, Sheffield Hallam University

Russia's influential position as Europe's main supplier of natural gas is under threat from new discoveries.

Tehreek-e-Labbaik: how blasphemy case in Pakistan brought down hardline religious party

Abdullah Yusuf, University of Dundee

Taking on the state with threats and violent protests was met with a swift crackdown by Imran Khan's new government.