HIV prevention: Time to ditch cultural sentimentality?

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Reporting on the role of circumcision in the “combination prevention” discussed during the 2008 AIDS conference, Roger Peabody from Aidmaps noted that “In response to several criticisms of the recommended roll-out of circumcision, Catherine Hankins from UNAIDS insisted that circumcision had to be seen as part of combination prevention” ...

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Discrimination in the toilets?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Hong Nam Katoye (Toilets for Katoye Matt, Bangkok Lost Boy and fellow blogger, posted on the recently introduced toilets for Katoye in Thailand. I specifically use the Thai word as there is no satisfactory translation in English or other western languages. Transvestite, transsexual, third sex can never encompass the real nature and ...

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