More than 36 million people across the world live with HIV. In the last three decades sustained investment and big scientific breakthroughs have led to enormous strides being made in the battle against the disease. But stigma remains a stumbling block – and as Linda-Gail Bekker explains, it means that people don’t get treatment or they abandon their drug regimens. Ultimately this means that the world’s no closer to getting the disease under control.

Do events in Zimbabwe hold lessons for Uganda where President Yoweri Museveni is trying to extend his nearly 30-year reign? Justin Willis, Gabrielle Lynch and Nic Cheeseman argue that they do: the main one is that elections without choice have their uses, but they cannot ensure stable succession. thanks!

When American cultural anthropologist Alma Gottlieb lived in Côte d'Ivoire doing ethnographic fieldwork she had a realization: childrearing practices vary around the world, but the kids typically grow into healthy, happy adults regardless. Here she uses the example of diverse toilet-training practices to show there’s more than one path to raising a well-adjusted child.