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Activism
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.

Published
21 May 2013
From
APCOM (Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health)
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
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
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

Published
01 May 2013
By
Gus Cairns
Finance and funding
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.

Published
22 April 2013
From
USA Today
Human rights
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.

Published
08 April 2013
From
Mwebantu.com
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
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.

Published
08 April 2013
From
Xtra
Human rights
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.

Published
08 April 2013
From
HIV Justice Network
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
TB prevention
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.

Published
24 March 2013
From
Oxford University Press blog
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Cameroon: Human Rights Abuses in ‘Homosexuality’ Prosecutions

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.

Published
21 March 2013
From
Human Rights Watch LGBT
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