The punitive legal environment combined with social stigma allows police abuse to go unchecked and prevents many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from reporting violence or getting medical care.
As this HIV R4P conference enters its final day, we feel like it's safe to say that this conference heralded an energized, nuanced commitment to choice.
In this first of a series of updates from the conference, we bring you a set of session updates, and this overall observation: #believewomen has no borders. It is everywhere. Even when the discourse is polite.
Many more gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM) may be using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) than figures from demonstration projects and national rollouts suggest,
October 26 is Intersex Awareness Day. Intersex people have always existed, but it wasn’t until the mid 20th century that U.S. medical practitioners began paying a particular kind of attention to our natural sex differences.
On the occasion of this year’s Intersex Awareness Day, IGLYO is proud to launch “Supporting your intersex child”, a toolkit for parents, carers, relatives and siblings of intersex children, written in collaboration with OII Europe and the European Parents’ Association (EPA).
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soon to announce its funding for prevention research, which will indicate the priorities for HIV prevention research for the next several years.
I’ve actually realised how people are afraid of HIV yet willing to have unprotected sex, especially men; because even at work you’d find that the people who make uneasy remarks about others are men.
Matthew Golden, director of HIV and STI program for the Seattle area, expressed concern that if PrEP does contribute to widespread sexual behavioral changes in the MSM community, marginalized subgroups may be hit with higher infection rates of both HIV and STIs.
