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  Barriers to care: immigration removal centres and HIV

  Evidence has shown that a series of failings in immigration removal centres (IRCs) has compromised the continuity of care for people with HIV. Guest writer Daniel Lombard investigates. ...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Finding our global voice

  Jack Beck of the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) reviews what has now become a regular event preceding the biennial International AIDS Conferences – the...

  From:HIV treatment update

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  Harm reduction and human rights

  Harm reduction for injecting drug users, including clean needles and syringes and opiate substitution therapy, is extremely limited in some regions of the world. Harm reduction...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

Human rights news from aidsmap

• Treatment as prevention: what are the next steps?

  Turning treatment into a prevention tool that can end the HIV pandemic will require not one, but a host of different improvements, in the delivery of health care to achieve its full impact, and will not succeed without full ...

  20 July 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• Ugandan study shows why human rights are central to HIV prevention with African men who have sex with men

  In Kampala, Uganda, men who have sex with men who have suffered homophobic violence or abuse are five times more likely to be HIV-positive than other men, Joseph Barker told the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference on Tuesday. Just under ...

  22 July 2010 | Roger Pebody

• 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

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• Why the Women’s Rights Movement Must Listen to Sex Workers

  “The key demand of the sex workers’ movement in Burma, in Asia and all around the world is simple. We demand that sex work is recognized as work. But we have one other key demand, specific to certain parts of the women’s movement. We demand that we are not treated as victims.”

  17 hours ago | RH Reality Check

• Malawi to overturn homosexual ban, Joyce Banda says

  President Joyce Banda has said she wants Malawi to overturn its ban on homosexual acts - the first African country to do so since 1994.

  18 May 2012 | BBC

• To Fight HIV, Indian Health Workers Say Homosexuality Must Be Legal

  The men here are among what Davinder calls India's "key population" — those most at risk of contracting HIV. He and his colleague, Husefa Saigoonwala, come here every week to pass out handfuls of condoms.

  15 May 2012 | NPR (blog)

• UNAIDS calls on Greece to protect sex workers and their clients through comprehensive and voluntary HIV programmes

  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

• Greece: Joint Letter to UN Special Rapporteur on Health

  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

• Petition to the Prime Minister of Greece: Stop the forced testing and outing of sex workers

  These practices are a violation of sex workers’ human rights, their right of freedom, privacy, and the confidentiality on their health condition. They are discriminatory and in complete contradiction with all international and EU treaties that Greece has ratified.

  09 May 2012 | Change.org

• Cuba’s AIDS Sanitariums: Fortresses Against a Viral Foe

  The network of sanitariums grew to 14. They were harshly criticized — Dr. Jonathan Mann, the first AIDS director at the World Health Organization, called them “pretty prisons” — but they had a huge damping effect on the early epidemic.

  08 May 2012 | New York Times

• Matthew Weait on the Greek brothel arrests

  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

• Greek government creates extensive powers to detain migrants and refugees

  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

• Greece arrests 17 HIV-positive women in brothels

  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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