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More than 35 HIV positive women are considering taking action against hospitals and their husbands or family members who participated in their sterilisation. They insist that they were sterilised through coercion, and sometimes without their knowledge, because they were HIV positive.
7 hours ago | Daily Nation
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The operations of the HIV/Aids Tribunal have been hampered by lack of funds, Parliament was told yesterday.
18 May 2012 | AllAfrica
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The words ‘defaulter’, ‘suspect’ and ‘control’ have been part of the language of tuberculosis (TB) services for many decades, and they continue to be used in international guidelines and published literature. The detrimental effect of such negative language is detailed by TB experts from around the world in an article.
17 May 2012 | Stop TB Partnership
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In a time when increasingly limited funding depends on evidence of success, data management has become one of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s most important contributions to the AIDS sector in Chicago. Since 2009, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) has worked to build out ClientTrack, a client-level database, as a tool to create, manage, and analyze information about the people we serve.
15 May 2012 | AIDS Foundation of Chicago
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What does notification of TB diagnosis to TB authorities mean for patients and their families? Has the community which is most vulnerable (e.g. HIV+), health groups in India been consulted on what this means for patient confidentiality?
14 May 2012 | TB Online
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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) expresses its concern over recent actions by Greek authorities involving the arrest, detention, mandatory HIV testing, publication of photographs and personal details, and pressing of criminal charges against at least 12 sex workers. There is no evidence that punitive approaches to regulating sex work are effective in reducing HIV transmission among sex workers and their clients.
11 May 2012 | UNAIDS press release
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We are writing to call your attention to two issues of urgent and serious concern in Greece: (1) the administrative detention and compulsory medical testing of immigrants and asylum seekers based on health status and (2) the arrest, criminal prosecution and compulsory HIV testing of sex workers.
11 May 2012 | Human Rights Watch
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HIV criminalization has compounded, and added a new and frightening dimension to, the longstanding idea that female sex workers are a source of pollution threatening the cleanliness of men.
03 May 2012 | The Times That Belong To Us
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The government of Greece is planning a programme of programme of mass incarceration of tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers residing within its borders.
03 May 2012 | Migrants Rights Network
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Greek authorities announced the arrest Wednesday of 17 HIV-positive women who allegedly worked illegally as prostitutes, accusing them of intentionally causing serious bodily harm. The names and photographs of 12 of the women were published on the Greek Police's website, angering human rights advocates who said it was unclear whether the women were aware they had HIV.
03 May 2012 | The Associated Press
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