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Kenya: Sterilization in HIV Is Unacceptable, Faith Leaders

Forced contraceptive sterilization of women living with HIV which occurred recently in the country, according to reports, is an unacceptable infringement on the woman's rights which hurts the gains in the efforts to turn the tide against the epidemic, senior Kenyan faith leaders are warning.

Published
20 September 2012
From
allAfrica.com
HIV prevention policy
Fresh Research on HIV Urges New Approach to Gay Men

Unlike the flattening or even declining rates of HIV infection among nearly all other communities, the epidemic among gay men globally is rapidly expanding. But according to new research, the reason for this fast expansion is biological, not behavioural, thus countering some of the core priorities of traditional AIDS funding.

Published
10 September 2012
From
IPS
Human rights
Harare man challenges denial of access to ARVs in detention at the Supreme Court

A landmark case has been filed at the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe questioning the constitutionality of certain practices and treatment of people living with HIV in detention by police and prison officials.

Published
10 September 2012
From
The Zimbabwean
Human rights
HIV-positive women 'routinely sterilised without consent' in Kenya

Kenya has launched an investigation after researchers claimed HIV-positive women were being routinely sterilised without their consent in government hospitals.

Published
05 September 2012
From
The Guardian
Human rights
China AIDS patients topple gate of government office

About 300 AIDS patients and their relatives tore down the main gate of a government office in central China during a protest Monday over unmet demands for financial assistance. "We want the government to give us some help," said Protester Li Xia, who like many of the protesters was infected with HIV when she sold blood in 1995. Tens of thousands of people contracted the virus that causes AIDS in a blood-selling scandal in Henan in the 1990s that is widely seen as a failure of government leadership.

Published
28 August 2012
From
Business Week
Human rights
Ex-prisoner sues over TB

Dudley Lee is suing the Correctional Services Minister because, he says, he contracted tuberculosis while incarcerated at Pollsmoor prison nine years ago. The prison's poor conditions cause an awaiting-trial prisoner to have a 90% risk of becoming infected with latent TB every year that he is in prison.

Published
28 August 2012
From
Times Live
Discrimination and the law
People with HIV fear unfair treatment in courts

Nearly half of HIV-positive respondents to a recently released survey on HIV criminalization say they believe they will not receive a fair hearing in the criminal justice system if they ever face charges for failing to disclose their status to sexual partners.

Published
10 August 2012
From
American Independent
HIV and criminal law
Fearing advocacy, Ottawa rejects HIV/AIDS funding proposals - Globe and Mail

Canada has turned down funding for an HIV/AIDS charity for fear it might result in advocacy – an indication of a growing tendency within the Conservative government to steer clear of groups pushing causes out of step with its policies. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, whose mission is to promote the human rights of people living with or at risk of contracting the virus, has received a significant portion of its funding from Ottawa over its 20-year existence. But in this year’s round of funding applications, 16 of its 20 proposals were rebuffed. Fifteen of those were rejected citing an identical reason: “It was unclear from the details provided in the proposal whether the resource would be used for advocacy purposes, which is ineligible for funding,” the health agency wrote in an April e-mail to the group. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network has pioneered the investigation of criminal prosecution for HIV exposure in Canada.

Published
07 August 2012
From
Globe and Mail
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
What kind of prevention do gay men need?

A number of presentations at the 19th International AIDS Conference explored the 'hyperepidemic' of HIV amongst men who have sex with men, and especially black MSM. A paper

Published
06 August 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Discrimination and the law
Zimbabwe Woman Fights Conviction of Deliberately Transmitting HIV

A 34-year-old Zimbabwean woman - who last month was found guilty of deliberately infecting her husband with the HIV virus - is fighting her conviction. Her lawyers have approached the country's highest court, demanding repeal of the law she she was charged under, saying it stigmatizes HIV/AIDS.

Published
03 August 2012
From
Voice of America
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