We left the modern city of Dohuk in Northern Iraq at about 9am on a Thursday morning. After about 20 minutes of tarmac highway, we moved to dirt tracks and drove along bumpy roads for another half an hour to get to the Qadia camp of Rawanga.

Last October, Dublin footballer Michael Darragh Macauley travelled to Iraq with Concern to meet with Syrian families who had been forced to flee their homes as a result of the conflict. Our Director of Communications Sarah Martin, who accompanied Michael Darragh on the trip, recounts their visit

Having claimed more than 32 million lives since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s, HIV continues to be a major global issue.

When the absence, rather than the presence, of violence is seen as remarkable, something needs to be done.