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  What kind of prevention do gay men need?

  A number of presentations at the 19th International AIDS Conference explored the 'hyperepidemic' of HIV amongst men who have sex with men, and especially black MSM. A paper...

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  Will the world pay up to end HIV? Global AIDS funding

  We are at a critical point in the history of the HIV epidemic. We potentially have the tools to end it but, asks guest writer Laura...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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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

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• What kind of prevention do gay men need?

  A number of presentations at the 19th International AIDS Conference explored the 'hyperepidemic' of HIV amongst men who have sex with men, and especially black MSM. A paper presented by Gregorio Millet showed that, at least in the USA, ...

  06 August 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Female sex workers have 14 times the risk of having HIV as other women

  Although researchers and public health organisations in most low and middle income countries have not collected any recent data on the prevalence of HIV in female sex workers, the data that do exist are alarming, the 19th International AIDS ...

  31 July 2012 | Roger Pebody

• In the real world HIV has changed; in the courtroom it is still the 1980s

  In the midwestern American state of Michigan, prosecutors and judges still consider HIV infection to be a death sentence and are dismissive of scientifically grounded arguments about transmission risk and life expectancy, an analysis of court transcripts has shown. Moreover, ...

  26 July 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Criminalising condom possession by sex workers is a global trend

  There's nothing new about sex work being illegal – a fact that remains the norm in many countries – but now sex workers are being targeted for simply trying to protect their health and the health of their clients ...

  24 July 2012 | Mara Kardas-Nelson

• Taking steps to legal reform for men who have sex with men in Africa and the Caribbean

  We are dealing with two epidemics, the Australian judge Michael Kirby said at a pre-conference meeting on issues for men who have sex with men (MSM) yesterday. The first is the epidemic of HIV and AIDS; the second is ...

  22 July 2012 | Roger Pebody

• 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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• Cameroon: Human Rights Abuses in ‘Homosexuality’ Prosecutions

  Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world, four human rights organizations said in a report released today. They found that at least 28 people have been prosecuted for same-sex conduct in Cameroon since 2010. Most cases are marked by grave human rights violations, including torture, forced confessions, denial of access to legal counsel, and discriminatory treatment by law enforcement and judicial officials.

  8 hours ago | Human Rights Watch LGBT

• AIDS Accountability International: South Africa to investigate Zimbabwe’s ‘politically motivated rape’

  South Africa is to investigate crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe involving widespread rape perpetrated in the run-up to Zimbabwe’s 2008 presidential elections.

  02 March 2013 | AIDS Free World

• Ghana: Stop Mandatory HIV Test

  The Ghana AIDS Commission has advised pastors who ask their members to undergo a mandatory HIV test before they bless their marriages to stop the practice.

  01 March 2013 | AllAfrica.com

• Uganda: Civil Society Opposed to Mandatory HIV Testing

  Civil Society organizations (CSOs) have called for a repeal of mandatory HIV testing clause as envisaged in the HIV/AIDS and Control Bill, 2010, saying such a policy would drive the scourge "underground" instead of scaling down the recent increase in infections. The CSOs also called for repeal of clauses that mandate disclosure of HIV status to third parties, allow medical personnel to disclose one's HIV status to one's sex partner, and the criminalization of intentional and attempted transmission of HIV/AIDS.

  01 March 2013 | Allafrica.com

• No trial after all! Case against Norwegian prosecuted for HIV exposure via oral sex thrown out

  The case against Louis Gay, the Norwegian HIV positive man prosecuted for exposing his ex-boyfriend to HIV via oral sex, was finally dismissed today, a year after he was indicted. DNA testing had shown that Louis was not the source of his partner's infection.

  14 February 2013 | Blogspot

• 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

• Uganda: Men Urged to Engage in HIV Fight

  Men in Uganda have been asked to engage in the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) initiatives in a bid to reduce the accelerating rates of HIV/AIDS infections in the country.

  29 January 2013 | New Vision

• We Are Here: LGBTI in Uganda

  "American-born gay photographer D. David Robinson collected portraits and first-person accounts from lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex Ugandans, then turned to The Advocate to offer these brave activists a forum to elevate their stories in their own words."

  02 January 2013 | The Advocate

• Vietnam’s move away from detaining sex workers

  Sex workers in Vietnam are struggling to figure out their next steps after the government’s decision earlier this year to release them from compulsory detention centres that have been widely condemned for alleged human rights abuses.

  21 December 2012 | IRIN Plus News

• Botswana: Public health bill shocking and regressive

  The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), is shocked by the introduction of a Public Health Bill which our Parliament is currently debating. This Bill has some provisions that have no place in a democratic and modern day Botswana. It has provisions that are counter-productive, discriminatory, unconstitutional and barbaric.

  10 December 2012 | International HIV/AIDS Alliance / Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS

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