To assess the extent of global progress on HIV/AIDS among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM), amfAR reviewed 5 HIV indicators relevant to MSM for 128 UNGASS country progress reports for Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa.

HIV prevalence amongst MSM

Countries reporting on MSM

Percentage of MSM living with HIV

Percentage of MSM who have used a condom
the last time they had sex

Percentage of MSM who have taken an
HIV test during the last year

Percentage of MSM who know
how to prevent …

Why HIV “prevention does not work” has been the subject of recurrent discussions during the past weeks. It all started with a thought-provoking article published online by Frontiers in LA, “a one-stop source of content for Southern California’s LGBT community” (welcome to the Ghetto) by Michael Liberatore who wrote that “if pharmaceutical companies were supplying the cash to develop [HIV/AIDS] treatments, couldn’t they just as easily stall the development of newer, less profit-friendly treatments to assure that their bank accounts continue to swell?”
The article is worth reading and raises some …

We live in a sad world where stigma and discrimination follow people even in death.
Yesterday the BBC reported that the body of a senegalese man had been dug up twice from his grave because he was believed to be homosexual. As in many other African countries, homosexuality is outlawed in Senegal. In Uganda “the offence” carries a life sentence on conviction, and according to the government, international NGO (including UNICEF and Amnesty International) are accused of promoting it. In Burundi, the government recently adopted a law criminalising homosexual conduct. in …

We are living fantastic times. The Sunday Express revealed that a £67 expense claim made by UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for a Virgin Media bill included two 18-rated features viewed last April at her constituency house. Though she did not view the porn movies, let’s call a cat a cat, it is amazing that this is happening in the house of the woman who wants to control other’s, and in particular men, sexuality. I refer here to her “proposal for a new legislation aimed at bringing the sex industry …

From Entebbe, Uganda – “A man shocked parents on Sunday when he confessed to recruiting school children into homosexuality to promote the practice in Ugandan schools.”
Hence started the opening paragraph of a front page feature of the Ugandan daily The New Vision under a 5-cm letter header: “HOMOSEXUAL ADMITS RECRUITING STUDENTS”
New Vision’s Paul Kiwuuwa writes that George Oundo has received funding and training from “abroad” and targeted children, mostly “needy” ones, because children are “easy to initiate and they like easy things”. “Conversion” was achieved through books and compact disc …