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  • How to tackle HIV stigma among health care workers

    Stemming in part from negative associations with the virus itself, and in part from marginalisation of populations highly impacted by the virus, stigma and discrimination has long dissuaded people from accessing HIV-related services. Studies presented last week at the ...

    02 August 2012 | Mara Kardas-Nelson

  • HIV stigma divides and fragments gay communities

    A review of research studies has identified a growing division within gay communities, in which HIV-negative gay men associate mainly with other HIV-negative men, and HIV-positive men mostly mix with other HIV-positive men. Moreover stigma has negative impacts ...

    14 December 2011 | Roger Pebody

  • Media campaign on disclosure and stigma changes gay men’s attitudes

    A Canadian campaign which asked gay men “If you were rejected every time you disclosed, would you?” appears to have raised men’s understanding of the dilemmas which men with HIV face. The campaign also succeeded in reducing the number ...

    21 September 2011 | Roger Pebody

  • House of Lords says UK needs new national HIV prevention campaign, bigger push for testing

    The United Kingdom government must give much greater priority to HIV prevention, and consider a new national campaign to inform the general public of the risks of HIV infection, according to a report issued today by the House of ...

    01 September 2011 | Keith Alcorn

  • South African women with AIDS conspiracy beliefs half as likely to use condoms

    In Cape Town, African women who think that AIDS is man-made are half as likely as other African women to have used a condom during their most recent sexual encounter, researchers report in the journal AIDS and Behavior. In addition, ...

    18 May 2011 | Roger Pebody

  • People who stigmatise HIV are less likely to take an HIV test

    Individuals with stigmatising beliefs about HIV are less likely to test for the virus, an international team of investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The research involved 5249 individuals in the South ...

    30 October 2010 | Michael Carter

  • Parliamentarians, UNAIDS, call for removal of HIV travel bans

    Parliamentarians have joined with UNAIDS to call for the removal of travel restrictions for people with HIV. Governments were urged to action by parliamentarians from around the world, meeting at the 122nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary ...

    29 March 2010 | Michael Carter

  • UNAIDS launches action framework for women, girls and HIV

    UNAIDS has launched an Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV (2010–2014), which has been developed to address gender inequalities and human rights violations that continue to put women and girls ...

    03 March 2010 | Press Release

  • Uganda: government minister questions need for new anti-gay laws

    A Ugandan government minister has questioned the need for new legislation which would intensify penalties for consenting homosexual acts. Aston Kajara, minister of state for investments, the Agence France-Presse news agency: "The government's position is that ...

    08 January 2010 | Keith Alcorn

  • Certain manifestations of stigma especially hurtful for people with HIV

    Specific manifestations of HIV-related stigma best predict psychological distress in HIV-positive individuals, Dutch investigators report in the November edition of AIDS. These include difficulties with health care workers and lack of frankness within the family, but ...

    05 November 2009 | Michael Carter
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  • UK: Disability hate crime is 'overlooked and under-reported'

    Police are "too sensitive" about asking victims of crime if they are disabled, an inspection has found. "There's a lack of willingness by police officers and police staff in control rooms to ask the right of questions to establish whether it's a crime, whether its anti-social behaviour and what effect disability is having on that person in terms of the effect on the crime."

    8 hours ago | BBC

  • Prince Harry Visits Schoolchildren in Lesotho, Speaks Out in Fight Against HIV

    "Talking about HIV and understanding it isn't dangerous," Harry said at the Johannesburg dinner. "Denying it, or not knowing about it, definitely is. Our aim and hope is that we can influence a decline in the transmission of HIV and increase life expectancy, in a unique way for Lesotho: by addressing the psychological and social needs of the next generation, which is so important.”

    28 February 2013 | Yahoo! News (blog)

  • Gays can't have sex

    'Gays can’t have sex. We can have only “safer sex” or “protected sex” (where condoms or any other form of barriers are used). The sad part of “protected sex” is that it implies that sex between men is not safe,...' - psychotherapiast Marco Posadas ponders whether 'safer sex' is having a damaging effect on gay men's self-image.

    22 February 2013 | Xtra!

  • Russia's ban on 'homosexual propaganda' - traditionalism at its worst

    The ban on "homosexual propaganda among minors" has yet to become law in Russia—only its first draft has passed the lower chamber of the Russian parliament—but it has already become the most discussed subject in the Russian press and has claimed its first victims.

    08 February 2013 | The New Republic

  • Physicians to be told they must treat HIV carriers

    Doctors do not have the right to refuse to treat patients, the Israeli Medical Association's ethics committee said yesterday, countering arguments in favor of doctors' discretion when receiving HIV patients.

    06 February 2013 | Haaretz

  • China: Teacher with HIV receives 45,000 yuan in employment discrimination case

    A teacher in the eastern Chinese city of Nanchang has accepted 45,000 yuan in compensation after filing a lawsuit against his local education department for employment discrimination. Xiao Qi (a pseudonym) had been refused employment by the Jinxian county education department because he was HIV positive.

    01 February 2013 | China Labour Bulletin

  • Mark S. King: I'm Gonna Wipe That AIDS Right Off My Face

    It was all well and good to be front and center as an HIV-positive man during the first years of the AIDS crisis. It's easier being a role model when your face looks good on the poster. But then, slowly but surely, a common side effect of HIV medications, facial wasting, began to appear.

    30 January 2013 | Huffington Post

  • Uganda hailed over HIV fight

    Lord Norman Fowler, a member of the UK's House of Lords, has praised Uganda for playing a key role in leading the world in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

    29 January 2013 | New Vision

  • Somaliland: Poverty and Discrimination Causes New HIV/Aids Infections

    Hargeisa (THT) - Proper Welfare to people living with HIV/Aids is the best way of deterring new infections in the country. Women living with HIV/Aids have asked the government to enhance the support of those infected and affected by the virus as prelude to reducing the growing rate of new infections reported which stands at around 58 on a monthly basis.

    13 January 2013 | Google Alerts HIV

  • Living with Stigma and Ignorance: HIV on the Rise in Belarus

    At the end of the last year, the Healthcare Ministry of Belarus in partnership with the UNDP started a campaign to challenge HIV/AIDS-related stereotypes and myths.

    11 January 2013 | Belarus Digest
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