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 …

On 21st of February, the 2nd Chiang Mai Gay Pride Parade had to be called off following a stand-off with a small group of “Rak Chiang Mai 51″ red-shirted pro-Thaksin demonstrators who objected to the event taking place in a public space.
According to The Nation, “The protesters launched verbal attacks through a megaphone saying the event tarnished the city’s reputation.” The previous day, “a leading member of the “Rak Chiang Mai 51″ group said local residents disagreed with the parade as it was against the old city’s culture and could …

It takes two to tango. Knowing and sharing your
HIV status is your choice and responsability
Behaving responsably is everyone’s duty

A new report published by Sigma Research shows that, 57% of gay men supported the prosecution and imprisonment of people with HIV recklessly infecting a sexual partner with the virus (commented by Michael Carter at AIDSMAP).
This support was more prominent amongst Gay men who never tested for HIV than amongst those who tested at least once for HIV and were negative whilst less than 20% of those who tested HIV positive agreed …

In Sizwe’s Test (originally entitled Three Letters Plague), author Jonny Steinberg recalled his deep feeling of shame associated with his first HIV test. Discussing his experience with a psychotherapist friend, she found an analogy with how pregnant women were prohibited to appear in public three or four generations ago as they would have been a huge source of shame.
“What was the root of that shame? What was it that had to be concealed? It is not the fact that she has sex. Everyone knows she has. It is the external …

“In September 2007, a mobile recording studio was set up in Bo, Sierra Leone, to help the town’s musicians and HIV peer educators make an album of anti-HIV songs called ‘HIV e dae-o’ (HIV is real). Alongside the recording, a computer animation expert taught local young people techniques allowing them to create music videos for the songs.
Using these new materials, trained young Sierra Leonean peer educators will be able to spread public health messages to the region’s youth, teaching them about HIV and how to protect themselves, and helping to …