The vaginal ring is made of silicone, it's flexible and it continuously releases the anti-HIV drug dapivirine. Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Sudanese dockers unload a U.S. aid shipment at Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast on May 5. Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Michael Weinstein is president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and a longtime maverick in gay activist circles. April Dembosky/KQED hide caption
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Every day, hundreds of patients wait to be seen at the Munhava health center in Mozambique's port city of Beira. Morgana Wingard hide caption
Catherine Msimango, 18, takes a nightly pill to protect her against HIV. "It's all about my safety," says the South African high schooler. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption
The alleyway known as the Beira "corridor" is part of the city's informal prostitution zone, where sex workers wait to meet clients. Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Cleopas Kapembwa Chisanga of Zambia, who is HIV positive, is the subject of a new video and will be broadcasting from this week's International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. Sydelle Willow Smith/International Aids Society hide caption
A billboard asks Ugandans to abstain from sex until marriage. The photo was taken in 2005 in Kampala. Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images hide caption
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On her first visit to the U.S., Loyce Maturu of Zimbabwe was impressed by how friendly Americans are. She couldn't get over that they'll say hello to a stranger in an elevator. Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide caption
Rosa Coj Bocel is the first person from her village in Guatemala to go to college. She hopes to become a nurse and open a pharmacy. Akash Ghai/NPR hide caption
A pneumococcal vaccine is delivered via motorcycle in Kenya. Evelyn Hochstein/Courtesy of Gavi hide caption
African-American men who have sex with men face a high risk of becoming infected with HIV. Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Blend Images/Getty Images hide caption
Gay and bisexual men were banned from donating blood over concern that HIV could contaminate the blood supply. Vesna Andjic/Getty Images hide caption