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Awards Recognise Leaders Among Men Who Have Sex With Men  - found that HIV prevalence rates among MSM were as high as about 38 percent - or double that found among South Africa's general population.

How do you tell a child she has HIV ?  - Cape Town - For five years after learning about her daughter’s HIV status 32-year-old Amanda (not her real name) of Khayelitsha couldn’t bring herself to break the news to her young daughter.

Young People Demand Their Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights  - Young People Demand Their Sexual and Reproductive Health ... The first time Alfred went to an HIV voluntary testing center, the healthcare ...

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing to launch new HIV curriculum for non-physician providers  - For many years these specialty training programs in HIV have been ... in HIV , whether in the United States or in sub-Saharan Africa , those outcomes ...

The Anti-Semite Inside You  - Therefore, I suggest that in the same way we talk about internalized sexism and racism and homophobia we must talk about internalized anti-Semitism ...

Brazil Creates Federal Group to Fight Homophobia  - Gay parade in Brazil Brazil's Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic (SDH) put together the National Committee for Public ...

Jokes on racism, homophobia or 'midgets'...? All good if they challenge issues, says female comic ...  - A Canadian comedian touring in Salford has spoken of how she regularly has to deal with abuse from strangers because of her dwarfism. Tanyalee ...

Let me tell you where you can stick your unsolicited advice  - It's people who want to be blatantly racist, sexist, cissexist or homophobic around me, and then want to give me advice on how I can adjust my tone to ...

LGBT Jamaicans Survive in Storm Drains  - Jamaica is a homophobic society," is the plainly stated fact in the opening scene of Vice News' new documentary, Young and Gay: Jamaica's Gully ...

South Africa's life expectancy jumps to 61.2 years  - Life expectancy in AIDS-hit South Africa has shot up sharply over the past decade, thanks to life prolonging anti-retroviral (ARVs) treatment, latest estimates from the country's statistics agency showed Thursday.

Irene Monroe: African -American sisters aging with HIV and co-morbidities  -  African -American women's struggle with HIV — from the black community's stigmatization to the dominant culture's condemnation of them — has both ...

Equity in utilization of antiretroviral therapy for HIV -infected people in South Africa : a systematic ...  - About half a million people in South Africa are deprived of ... A study was included if it compared for different groups of HIV infected people ...

Circumcision cuts risk of HIV infection, says experts  - Since then, three controlled and randomised studies in South Africa , Tanzania ... “ HIV can't get through normal skin,” Roger Short, Wexler Professional ...

Uganda court annuls anti- homosexuality law  -  Homosexual acts were already illegal, but the new law allowed for life imprisonment for "aggravated homosexuality " and banned the "promotion of ...

Human Rights Low On US- Africa Policy Summit  - Canton spoke Wednesday about these issues alongside fellow human rights advocates, as well as African journalists and LGBT activists, who ...

Stigma and Discrimination Are Killing LGBT Men -- News From the International AIDS Conference  - These are the words of Ifeanyi Orazulike (pictured), who runs a clinic for MSM and trans women in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. Orazulike traveled to the International AIDS Conference last week in Melbourne to talk about his work and how the anti-gay laws are affecting access to health care for MSM in Africa.