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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...

  From:  News

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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

Human rights news from aidsmap

• Blackmail, violence and stigma restrict access to sexual health services for gay men, Global Health and Rights Study reports

  The Global Forum for MSM and HIV has released an analysis of its 2012 Global Men’s Health and Rights Study (GMHRS) concentrating on young men under 30 who have sex with men (MSM), complementing the full report which came out ...

  01 May 2013 | Gus Cairns

• 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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Human rights news selected from other sources

• Honouring Shivananda Duncan George Khan OBE

  APCOM, one on the many organisations he helped to found, honours pioneering HIV and MSM activist Shivananda Khan, who died on 20 May.

  21 May 2013 | APCOM (Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health)

• UZBEKISTAN: Uzbeks Required to Produce STD, Drugs Certificates to Travel Abroad

  According to Shuhrat Berdiyev, head of the Tashkent STD health clinic, Uzbekistan citizens wishing to travel outside of the country soon will have to produce certificates at border control stations demonstrating they suffer from neither drug addiction nor an STD. Berdiyev said the Senate currently was discussing the new rules, which were expected to be adopted in either May or June of this year.

  08 May 2013 | Uznews

• Chinese Women With HIV Suffer Harassment and Stigma

  Human rights and press freedom are crucial if China is to achieve its stated AIDS prevention goals, particularly when it comes to safeguarding women and children, a leading AIDS specialist has said.

  08 May 2013 | Radio Free Asia

• Fights against AIDS, sex traffic collide at high court

  Two worthy goals come into conflict on Monday at the Supreme Court: preventing the global spread of HIV/AIDS and discouraging the sex trafficking of women and girls.

  22 April 2013 | USA Today

• Kenya: HIV Aids Tribunal Idle As Kenyans Keep Away

  Very few human rights abuse cases related to HIV have been reported. A tribunal set up to handle cases of people infected and affected by HIV wants Kenyans to lodge complaints before it. Chairperson Jotham Arua explains.

  12 April 2013 | AllAfrica

• Paul Kasonkomona, Gay Rights Activist Arrested At Muvi TV Studios

  POLICE in Lusaka last night arrested a gay rights activists, Paul Kasonkomona, within a private television station premises after featuring on a live programme dubbed The Assignment.

  08 April 2013 | Mwebantu.com

• Post-Arab Spring gays don't want to come out: author

  In the second part of our video interview with Sex and the Citadel author Shereen El Feki, the academic and journalist discusses homosexuality within the context of a post-Arab Spring world.

  08 April 2013 | Xtra

• Botswana’s draconian Public Health Bill approved by Parliament, BONELA will challenge it as unconstitutional once President signs into law

  Very disappointing news from Botswana. The Public Health Bill – including all of its draconian provisions on HIV – has been approved by Parliament.

  08 April 2013 | HIV Justice Network

• Activist: Kansas HIV quarantine bill lets religious officials justify discrimination

  Right now, it’s against the law in Kansas to quarantine HIV positive people but House Bill 2183 changes that. The measure is intended to allow firefighters or paramedics who are exposed to bodily fluids during the course of duty to get the victim’s blood tested without a court order. But lawmakers also added language that allows people with HIV and AIDS to be quarantined.

  28 March 2013 | Raw Story

• The historical arc of tuberculosis prevention

  It is somewhat ironic that just as the structural, social, and economic barriers to patient “non-compliance” are being taken seriously by the medical mainstream, the chief medical officer for England recently invoked a dystopian scenario of a drug-resistant bacterial rampage reminiscent of the early nineteenth century.

  24 March 2013 | Oxford University Press blog

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