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Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Anglican Mainstream: Gays marrying will lead to children being taught about ‘eating human faeces’

Dr Lisa Nolland, lay minister and blogger for Anglican Mainstream, has claimed that “Legalising gay ‘marriage’ will make mandatory the teaching about gay relationships and gay sex. In the powerful name of LGBT rights, graphic materials like those produced by THT (Terrence Higgins Trust) will become much more mainstream for underage teens.”

Published
17 June 2012
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Pink News
Activism
deepsouth, a New HIV/AIDS Documentary, Premieres This July

Last week, the Internet was buzzing about the trailer for a new documentary about HIV in the South. The film, deepsouth, follows a young, black, gay man from the Mississippi Delta who is doing his best to fight stigma and homophobia; two best friends who are preparing for their annual HIV retreat in rural Louisiana; and an Alabama activist who travels around the state speaking her truth.

Published
06 June 2012
From
The Body
Experiences of stigma
HIV Status Linked With Anti-LGBT Violence

2011 saw an increase in the severity of violence against and within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and HIV-affected (LGBTQH) communities—in fact, the year marked the highest number of hate violence murders ever recorded, according to an annual report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP).

Published
06 June 2012
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Poz magazine news
Discrimination and the law
US: Doctors With Gay Bias Denied HIV Meds, Man Says

A gay HIV-positive man says in court that a hospital denied him treatment and visitors, as the doctor remarked, "This is what he gets for going against God's will."

Published
05 June 2012
From
Courthouse News Service
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
In HIV Prevention, Protect the Mothers: A Message to the World Health Assembly 2012

Women with HIV — more than anyone — want to ensure their babies are born free of HIV. However, we are concerned that talking about "saving babies" without putting equal emphasis on upholding women's rights to safety and good health care is a short-term, unsustainable approach to the issue.

Published
23 May 2012
From
RH Reality Check
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Kenya: Doctors who played God

More than 35 HIV positive women are considering taking action against hospitals and their husbands or family members who participated in their sterilisation. They insist that they were sterilised through coercion, and sometimes without their knowledge, because they were HIV positive.

Published
21 May 2012
From
Daily Nation
Tuberculosis and HIV
No more TB suspects: time to change the way we talk about tuberculosis

The words ‘defaulter’, ‘suspect’ and ‘control’ have been part of the language of tuberculosis (TB) services for many decades, and they continue to be used in international guidelines and published literature. The detrimental effect of such negative language is detailed by TB experts from around the world in an article.

Published
17 May 2012
From
Stop TB Partnership
Disclosure and children
School rejects HIV boy's siblings

A primary school asked the parents of a four-year-old Whangarei boy with HIV to keep his two older siblings at home for their own safety after other parents came forward with concerns.

Published
15 May 2012
From
New Zealand Herald
Bad science and bogus treatments
HIV: Zimbabwean Senator wants women to dress shabbily, bath less

WOMEN must bath occasionally, shave-off their hair, dress shabbily and get circumcised to make them less attractive to men, a Senator has proposed during a conference on HIV. Morgan Femai, the MDC-T senator for Chikomo, said his bizarre prescription was necessary to help curb the spread of HIV/AIDS because men were finding it difficult to resist attractive and well-dressed women.

Published
13 May 2012
From
New Zimbabwe
Experiences of stigma
New Zealand: Parents deny discriminating over HIV boy

Angry parents are sticking up for the Northland childhood centre which kicked out a four-year-old boy for being HIV-positive. The Aids Foundation has labelled the Mokopuna Early Childhood Education centre close-minded, irresponsible and guilty of wilful ignorance.

Published
10 May 2012
From
TVNZ
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