Monday, December 8th, 2008
Speaking at an international AIDS conference, Moscow's mayor Yury Luzhkov said that the authorities will continue to ban gay parades to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.
"We have banned and will continue to forbid this propaganda by sexual minorities, as they could turn out to be one of the ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
This piece was written in September 2006. The AIDS conference it mentionned was the one before that of 2008 where vulnerable groups where at last put under the spotlights. Names, places and minor details have been modified to protect people’s privacy.
Bedtime story
Wat, my neighbour has a new lodger, a 35-year ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Lack of funds and misused thereof are the two main causes of a failing HIV prevention. As noted by Emily Geminder, HIV prevention does not attract as much financial attention as a quest for an HIV treatment, and when funds are committed to prevention, they end up financing interventions that ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Alex in Phnom Penh
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In a comment published in the Phnom Penh Post, independent consultant Michael De Guzman, put forward a few reasons why interventions aiming at reducing HIV infection and transmission amongst Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) are failing in a developing country such as Cambodia where an ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Surveys are not only interesting for the responses provided by their respondents but also for the unanswered questions raised by unasked questions. The 2007 UK Gay Men's Sex Survey is no exception and the latest report published in advance of the December release contains a few pearls of wisdom. The ...
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