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The National AIDS Trust (NAT) says the government’s sex education review “makes no mention of sex education which addresses the needs of LGBT young people.” Published on Thursday, the Department of Education’s review of Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PHSE) Education in England recommends it continues as a non-statutory subject.
3 hours ago | Pink News
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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
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A new website has been launched, in order to provide gay men with information about sexual transmission of hepatitis C and how to prevent it; testing for and treatment of hepatitis C; and information about HIV and hepatitis C co-infection.
9 hours ago | AFAO
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Colonization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the groin area of HIV-infected adults increases risk for subsequent clinical infection, according to results of a prospective study carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
14 March 2013 | Medscape (requires registration)
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Men in same-sex marriages are living longer, according to Danish researchers, but mortality rates among married lesbians have begun to rise after a long period of decline.
13 March 2013 | Los Angeles Times
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The Alliance welcomes the signing of the new Commonwealth Charter, as it underpins the commitment of the Commonwealth to human rights, gender equality and democracy. However, the Charter does not address criminalisation of those at higher risk of HIV, and the Commonwealth must honour its previous commitment to repealing all discriminatory legislation which hampers the HIV response.
12 March 2013 | International HIV/AIDS Alliance
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I have come to recognize the situation of HIV risk among young black MSM in the United States as not unlike the heterosexual spread of HIV infection among young women in Africa, in which girls 13-16 years of age acquire HIV infection from older, male partners.
12 March 2013 | Clinical Care Options
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Against a backdrop of ever rising HIV infection rates and squeezed statutory funding, the wholly unrealistic expectations on Terrence Higgins Trust to change the UK’s current health prognosis concerning gay men and HIV is coming under renewed strain from both within and outside of the gay community. Regardless of whether it is appropriate or not, the failure to curb HIV infections is increasingly being dumped at the trust’s door.
11 March 2013 | Pink News
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For the men of the AIDS Generation when death was an inevitability, sex and substances provided an escape, not only from the realities of AIDS, but also from the stigma and discrimination experienced by so many of us growing up as gay men.
10 March 2013 | Huffington Post
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Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes. For over thirty years, condoms have been our only lifesavers in the face of HIV. But as if we needed any additional evidence of the need to turn the page, it came in the form of a seemingly banal conference presentation this week in Atlanta at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
08 March 2013 | Frontiers LA
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