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  • The HIV-Positive Prostitute

    I don’t believe that HIV-positive escorts are callous and intend to infect their clients so they can make a quick buck. I think it’s important to explore the complex dynamics of sex, money and power that are at play.

    21 May 2012 | Frontiers L.A.
  • 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)
  • Why are so many abstracts being rejected at the International AIDS Conference?

    The Global Forum on Men Who Have Sex With Men and HIV (MSMGF) has brought to light a phenomenon that is already common knowledge: the high rejection rate of abstracts on issues and programs aimed at gay men and men who have sex with men for the International AIDS Conference, reports Javier Hourcade Bellocq.

    04 May 2012 | Corresponales Clave
  • HIV funding and programming targeted at gay and bisexual men in the U.S.: Reasons for hope, and cause for concern

    As President Obama’s 2010 National HIV/AIDS Strategy states, in boldface type, “The United States cannot reduce the number of HIV infections nationally without better addressing HIV among gay and bisexual men.” We agree. We must all reengage with our allies in the Administration and Congress to ensure that this aspirational statement is realized in action.

    30 April 2012 | Funders Concerned About AIDS
  • Op-ed: Digital Ways of Preventing HIV Are the Best Medicine

    As digital technologies become integral to our lives, they have become equally central to innovative HIV education, prevention and care efforts. These technologies enable us to work together in ways never before possible, offering unprecedented opportunities to tackle the many barriers that make our communities vulnerable to HIV.

    26 April 2012 | The Advocate
  • NHS is failing gay and bisexual men, major survey reveals

    Gay and bisexual men are neglected and sometimes discriminated against by a health service that tends to focus solely on their sexual health, despite the fact they are more likely to self-harm, attempt suicide and experience depression, according to a major study.

    25 April 2012 | The Guardian
  • Semen goes viral – or does it?

    If you have an undetectable viral load, is your semen undetectable too? Researchers say it may not be. But what’s the likelihood of actual HIV transmission? And how should we process that risk? Bob Leahy reports.

    24 April 2012 | Positive Lite
  • US National Institutes of Health under fire for grants toward creation of homoerotic website

    The National Institutes of Health has spent millions of dollars over the past decade to fund the construction of an HIV-prevention website that, among other sexually explicit features, includes a graphic image of homosexual sex and a Space Invaders-style interactive game that uses a penis-shaped blaster to shoot down gay epithets. 

    19 April 2012 | Fox News
  • For how long will anal health and hygiene be neglected?

    “It is high time that anal health [and hygiene] comes out of the closet” said Dr Ross Cranston, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Dr Cranston was referring to the multitude of anal health complications people practicing receptive anal intercourse are likely to be dealing with in their lives and very little quality care and products that exist to relieve them.

    17 April 2012 | Citizen News Service
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