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UNAIDS calls on Greece to protect sex workers and their clients through comprehensive and voluntary HIV programmes

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) expresses its concern over recent actions by Greek authorities involving the arrest, detention, mandatory HIV testing, publication of photographs and personal details, and pressing of criminal charges against at least 12 sex workers. There is no evidence that punitive approaches to regulating sex work are effective in reducing HIV transmission among sex workers and their clients.

Published
11 May 2012
From
UNAIDS press release
Epidemiology
HIV/AIDS among African immigrants in Minnesota

Our African Story is a series of community-pertinent topics whose intention is to give an African voice and ownership to some of the most riveting issues of the day. I have decided to kick off the series with the issue of HIV/AIDs and the effects of the epidemic on the African immigrant community in Minnesota.

Published
11 May 2012
From
Mshale African Community Newspaper
Immigration
Greek government creates extensive powers to detain migrants and refugees

The government of Greece is planning a programme of programme of mass incarceration of tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers residing within its borders.

Published
03 May 2012
From
Migrants Rights Network
Immigration
Amnesty raps Greece over migrant health roundups

In draft legislation submitted to parliament, the government requested backing from lawmakers to hold immigrants in detention for compulsory health checks and treatment for HIV/AIDS and other contagious ailments. 

Published
03 April 2012
From
CBS News
TB services
New UK guidance points the way to tackling tuberculosis among hard-to-reach groups

New public health guidance from NICE published today, ahead of World TB day (24 March), provides a blueprint for improving the way tuberculosis (TB) is identified and managed among groups of people who are hard to reach through traditional health care services.

Published
26 March 2012
From
NICE press release
Immigration
LGBT Asylum in US Just Got a Little Easier

The Obama administration has issued new rules which makes seeking asylum by persecuted gay people a little easier.

Published
14 March 2012
From
Care 2
Immigration
Undocumented immigrants living with HIV refused medication in South Africa

A Zimbabwean woman living with HIV had to be ‘rescued’ from jail in South Africa after spending the entire weekend without access to her medication.

Published
06 March 2012
From
Key Correspondents
Migrants
GREECE / Minister of Health blames undocumented women for HIV infections and calls for their deportation

“The infection goes from the illegal migrant women to the Greek client, into the Greek family” announced Greek Health Minister Andreas Loverdos  on 15 December 2011 at a public health conference, “HIV infected migrant women should be deported”.

Published
18 January 2012
From
PICUM
Access to medicines and treatment
UK: GPs forced to register illegal immigrants after threat of legal action

GPs are being forced to register and treat known illegal immigrants because of the threat of legal action, a Pulse investigation reveals.

Published
23 December 2011
From
Pulse
Africans in the UK
Health risks of migrants to UK can last for years after arrival

Some migrants to the UK have disproportionately high rates of infectious disease and can have increased health risks for several years after arrival, reveals the second report on migrant health published by the Health Protection Agency.

Published
22 December 2011
From
On Medica
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