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Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Michel Sidibé: AIDS-Free Future Means Fighting Homophobia

With May 17 marking the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, IPS spoke with Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS, about how discrimination affects efforts to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS, how that fight is moving forward, and the post-2015 development agenda.

Published
23 May 2013
From
Inter Press Service
Experiences of stigma
The Sound of Stigma

An essay by Mark S. King—an AIDS advocate, an author and a blogger living with HIV since 1985—on why HIV stigma among gay men persists.

Published
14 May 2013
From
Poz
Combatting stigma
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.

Published
08 May 2013
From
Radio Free Asia
Telling people you have HIV
Out, but not about that - New York city council candidate comes out as HIV positive

In a sign of how much has changed over the past two decades, Corey Johnson had not given much thought to his medical condition in the context of the Council race; in a sign of how little the emotional climate around the disease has altered, Mr. Johnson had not, as it happened, told his mother.

Published
07 May 2013
From
New York Times
Epidemiology and behaviour
Study shows why HIV risks greater among men under 30

Young men who have sex with men have more instability in their lives and less access to HIV prevention and treatment than their older counterparts, a new study shows.

Published
22 April 2013
From
The Desert Sun
HIV testing
Review shows HIV self-testing to be acceptable, accurate and feasible, but finds little data on linkage to care for those testing HIV positive

Self-testing for HIV is highly acceptable to people in a variety of settings, investigators report in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. The authors reviewed the results of 21

Published
04 April 2013
By
Michael Carter
HIV and criminal law
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.

Published
28 March 2013
From
Raw Story
Promoting HIV testing
Quality of health services is key in encouraging or discouraging people from HIV testing in Africa

The uptake of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa is influenced by the quality and manner in which health services are delivered, according to a review of 42 qualitative

Published
26 March 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Discrimination and the law
UK: Disability hate crime is 'overlooked and under-reported'

Police are "too sensitive" about asking victims of crime if they are disabled, an inspection has found. "There's a lack of willingness by police officers and police staff in control rooms to ask the right of questions to establish whether it's a crime, whether its anti-social behaviour and what effect disability is having on that person in terms of the effect on the crime."

Published
21 March 2013
From
BBC
Combatting stigma
Prince Harry Visits Schoolchildren in Lesotho, Speaks Out in Fight Against HIV

"Talking about HIV and understanding it isn't dangerous," Harry said at the Johannesburg dinner. "Denying it, or not knowing about it, definitely is. Our aim and hope is that we can influence a decline in the transmission of HIV and increase life expectancy, in a unique way for Lesotho: by addressing the psychological and social needs of the next generation, which is so important.”

Published
28 February 2013
From
Yahoo! News (blog)
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