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Religious Leaders With HIV Fight Multiple Stigmas in Kenya

Religious leaders living with HIV in Kenya say they face a double stigma because citizens associate the virus with sin. Homosexuality creates a third stigma. But they are speaking up, publicly acknowledging their HIV status in an attempt to dispel myths and promote prevention and care.

Published
02 October 2012
From
Global Press Institute
Religion and faith
“Abstinence doesn’t work, so use condoms”: Critical responses to Christian youth sexualities and HIV prevention in Africa

For many Christian youth, pre-marital abstinence is not an action one performs or a “behavior”, but is an integral part of one’s identity as a Christian. A critical first step towards developing an appropriate HIV prevention response for sexually-abstinent youth therefore, is one that takes into account the fact that pre-marital sexual abstinence is, for some young people, deeply embedded into their sense of self.

Published
02 October 2012
From
Somatosphere
Religion and faith
Faith leaders across England in 'HIV healing' claims

Dangerous cases of faith leaders who tell people with HIV to stop taking their life-saving drugs are identified by African-led community groups in England.

Published
24 September 2012
From
BBC Health
Human rights
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
Religion and faith
Religions play positive role in African AIDS crisis

While the Western press often targets religious groups for their roles in handling the African AIDS crisis, these groups tend to play positive -- and critical -- roles in fighting the epidemic, according to sociologists.

Published
17 September 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Religion and faith
Religious beliefs don't deter HIV testing or use of antiretrovirals among Africans in London

Religious beliefs do not prevent black Africans living in London from accessing HIV testing or starting antiretroviral therapy, according to a study published in HIV Medicine. The research

Published
15 August 2012
By
Michael Carter
Sex workers
Safe sex? Indonesia's conservatives would rather 'sinners' and sex-workers got Aids

Katherine Butler reports from Jakarta, where religious intolerance is undermining the fight against Asia's fastest-growing HIV epidemic

Published
07 August 2012
From
The Independent
Religion and faith
Catholic Church in Scotland: Society ‘should not facilitate gay relationships’

Following the government’s announcement that it would legislate to allow gay couples to marry in Scotland, the Catholic Church has continued to claim homosexuality is ‘hazardous and dangerous’ and said ‘no society’ should ‘facilitate or encourage’ gay relationships.

Published
27 July 2012
From
Pink News
Epidemiology and behaviour
Gay sex fuels HIV rise in Catholic Philippines

The Philippines is facing a HIV epidemic, with sex between men making up nearly 90 percent of all new cases, according to the health department and the United Nations' Development Programme (UNDP).

Published
27 July 2012
From
ABC
HIV prevention policy
What science can't yet treat: HIV's impact on minorities, poor

For all the strides made against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, science and medicine alone can't end an epidemic that affects vulnerable populations disproportionately: minorities, young people, poor people and those who lack access to health care.

Published
27 July 2012
From
The News Tribune
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