Kevin de Cock briefly admitted that the threat of an heterosexual AIDS pandemic outside of Africa had disappeared, but the pandemic is well and alive in Africa where it is affecting more and more heterosexual couples as observed in a study by Dr Kristin Dunkle and colleagues from the Emory Center for AIDS Research in the US and published in The Lancet.
The Atlanta team analysed Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data from 1739 Zambian women, 540 Zambian men, 1176 Rwandan women, and 606 Rwandan men. Using various analyses models they …

Reurters Helen Long reports on the Thai school that has dedicated toilets for transgender students with a sign that’s half male, half female.
The Kamphaeng School in Si Sa Ket, in northeastern Thailand opened separate toilet facilities to accommodate hundreds of transgender students who have always longed for their own restroom.
Having the walls painted pink? Or with a flowery pattern?
Follow the link to Part One.

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Thanks to Elizabeth at The Wisdom of Whores for bringing this one to my attention. It reminded me of a night out in Bangkok. Seating at the Balcony Bar, one of my favourite hang out in Silom Soi 4 (The staff is funnier than at the more Hi-So Telephone), I watched a tall and handsome foreigner in his late thirties seating at the table next to mine chatting with a “Boy”. It was at the time when the latest frenzy was to Make Powerty History and the “Farang” (foreigner) was …

Today the U.S. Government, through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), announced that it is supporting life-saving antiretroviral treatment for approximately 1.73 million men, women and children worldwide, including nearly 1.68 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.

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A substudy of the randomised controlled trial (RCT) of male circumcision as an HIV prevention method in Kisumu, Kenya has found that there were virtually no differences in risk behaviour or in STI infections between circumcised and uncircumcised men (lay discussion).In the last two years three RCT of male circumcision where stopped prematurely when interim analysis showed that circumcision was highly efficacious in reducing HIV incidence (that is the number of new cases observed over a period of time).
However, concerns were raised that the perceived protective effect of circumcision would …