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Promise by Kansas Officials Addresses HIV Quarantine Fears

A promise from health officials in Kansas has helped state legislators get by a dispute over a bill that advocates feared could lead to people with HIV/AIDS being quarantined, The Kansas City Star reports.

Published
16 April 2013
From
Poz magazine news
HIV and criminal law
Acrobat didn't know sex spread HIV: court

A circus acrobat accused of intentionally giving his girlfriend HIV says he thought condoms only prevented pregnancy and he didn't know the virus could spread through sex, a Gold Coast court has heard.

Published
16 April 2013
From
news.com.au
HIV and criminal law
Maryland Begins HIV Decriminalization Process

A state legislator is attempting to craft a bill.

Published
15 April 2013
From
Poz magazine news
Epidemiology and behaviour
Mozambique mining boom brings fear of rising HIV infection rate

Coal boom adds to complications for health workers trying to stop spread of HIV among miners, truck drivers and sex workers.

Published
15 April 2013
From
The Guardian
Access to medicines and treatment
Sex, drugs and hope: How big business fought AIDS in South Africa

MOST managers extol the power of positive thinking. At the New Vaal colliery in South Africa, however, workers are urged to “stay negative”. This is not because Anglo American, the mining giant that owns the colliery, wants to foster a gloomy attitude among its employees. Rather, it wants them to stay alive.

Published
12 April 2013
From
The Economist
HIV and criminal law
HIV-AIDS non-disclosure should be a crime, study of gay and bisexual men finds -

Two-thirds of men who have sex with men believe that people with HIV-AIDS should face criminal charges if they fail to disclose their status to a sexual partner. Only 17 per cent said failing to disclose should never be criminalized.

Published
11 April 2013
From
Globe and Mail
Migrants
Doctors warn of rising xenophobia in Europe's healthcare systems

Austerity measures adopted in Europe in response to the public debt crisis have a devastating impact on healthcare services, resulting in rising xenophobia in countries like Greece and Spain, the humanitarian group Doctors of the World said Tuesday (9 April). Rising unemployment and poverty across Europe have generated extreme-right statements stigmatising migrants,...

Published
11 April 2013
From
EurActiv
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
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