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Recreational drug use
UK: National AIDS Trust calls on London Councils to tackle drug use amongst gay men

The UK’s National Aids Trust (NAT) has called for urgent action from London Councils to tackle a recent rise in the use of drugs amongst the London gay community.

Published
28 March 2013
From
Pink News
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Study: In Malawi lifelong antiretroviral treatment for expectant moms “translates into saving more than 250,000 maternal life years”

A cost-effectiveness analysis of Option B+ in Malawi.

Published
27 March 2013
From
Science Speaks
Transgender people
Meta-analysis shows the massive global burden of HIV among transgender women

Almost a fifth of transgender women worldwide are infected with HIV, results of a meta-analysis published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases shows. A total of 39 studies

Published
27 March 2013
By
Michael Carter
Tuberculosis and HIV
World TB Day 2013: GNP+ and INPUD call for a massive scale up of TB services for people living with HIV and those who use drugs

Urgent attention is needed to address critical funding gaps in tuberculosis (TB) care and control, as well as knowledge gaps in treatment for multi-drug and extensively drug resistance TB and diagnostics, say the Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+) and the International Network of People who Use Drugs.

Published
24 March 2013
From
EATG
Women
Lawyer fights 'widow sex' tradition in Malawi

Lawyer and human rights activist Seodi White has long been an outspoken campaigner for gender justice in Malawi, a country where half its women are married before the age of 18. The prominent activist is targeting cultural practices that harm older, vulnerable women in Malawi.

Published
22 March 2013
From
CNN
PrEP
New Advocacy Group Wants to Improve Feasibility of PrEP for U.S. Women

Following disappointing results from the VOICE trial released at the recent 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta, a new U.S. Women and PrEP Working Group has called on the federal government to help American women use antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) safely and effectively. But the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) responded by urging the Food and Drug Administration to rescind its approval of Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) for HIV prevention.

Published
21 March 2013
From
HIVandHepatitis.com
Young people
UK: Fury erupts over government review of sex education

The government today rejected calls for national guidelines on PSHE lessons, sparking a furious reaction from campaigners.

Published
21 March 2013
From
Children & Young People Now
Young people
UK: Government criticised for failing to mention LGBT youngsters in sex education report

The National AIDS Trust (NAT) says the government’s sex education review “makes no mention of sex education which addresses the needs of LGBT young people.” Published on Thursday, the Department of Education’s review of Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PHSE) Education in England recommends it continues as a non-statutory subject.

Published
21 March 2013
From
Pink News
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
Epidemiology and behaviour
Media mis-reporting HIV rate among SA schoolgirls - true rate is 12.7 percent

The claim that 28 percent of South African schoolgirls are living with HIV started with a remark by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, misreported by The Sowetan. Unquestioned, it has been repeated by media across the country and the world. The true rate is half that.

Published
21 March 2013
From
Africa Check
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