On World AIDS Day, activists say a prolonged pandemic is deepening the inequalities that have long driven the HIV epidemic. Resources are being diverted to fight coronavirus and ways must be found to fight both.
 Closed schools, social distancing, remote learning. Children’s lives have been turned upside down during the pandemic. More than 100 countries have started to inoculate children against coronavirus - despite some parents' misgivings.
The coronavirus pandemic has now cost more than 100,000 lives in Germany. The number of infections keeps rising, raising fears the worst may not be over. New lockdowns and measures may be ahead.
Antiviral drugs like Paxlovid could slash hospitalizations and deaths from coronavirus. Treatments would bring us a step closer to the end of this pandemic