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National Transgender HIV Testing Day 2024
18 Apr 2024 17:01 GMT
… of community engagement for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Transgender Justice … woman to be appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS … ). Although high proportions of transgender women know about PrEP, far fewer …
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Gambia considers end of ban on ‘female genital cutting’
17 Apr 2024 22:19 GMT
… of HIV, severe and lifelong pain, hemorrhage and shock. Girls … notions of preserving female purity and suppressing female sexuality, which … procedure a violation of human rights. Jammeh called those who … lawmakers in Gambia are women. Arguments issued in the …
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Tori Cooper on National Transgender HIV Testing Day
17 Apr 2024 18:25 GMT
… Director of Community Engagement for Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Transgender Justice … were the first Black transgender woman to be appointed to PACHA … White HIV/AIDS Program, in 2021 75.2% of transgender women and …
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Sharp realities: The Gambia threatens to repeal its ban on Female Genital Mutilation
17 Apr 2024 00:24 GMT
… , the quiet pervasiveness of female genital mutilation (FGM) thrives … the legal protection of women and girls but also undermines … of infections such as HIV, and they are at … or advocate for the human rights of girls and women?
Eradicating the practice …
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UNAIDS calls for sustained and expanded health and HIV investments at the Spring Meetings of the...
16 Apr 2024 13:09 GMT
Debt restructuring and reforms to the global tax system are urgently required to finance health systems and other essential services
WASHINGTON/GENEVA, 16 April 2024—As financial leaders meet in Washington for the annual Spring Meetings of the World …
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HIV crisis in Atlanta made worse by racial disparities in treatment
16 Apr 2024 10:08 GMT
… the Campaign to End AIDS at Positive Impact Health … of new HIV infections among women were in Black women, the CDC … daily.
Helping heterosexual Black women access injectable PrEP and PrEP … for Atlanta,” Tori Cooper of Human Rights Campaign told the AJC. “ …
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Expand HIV services to power gains across health, urges new report
15 Apr 2024 14:15 GMT
… 2010, annual new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths have … “The HIV response is a force for multistakeholder engagement, human rights-based … United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) leads and … UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, UN Women, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the …
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British gay man arrested in Qatar is running out of HIV meds
15 Apr 2024 03:47 GMT
… running out of his vital HIV medication, his family say. … s terrible that Qatar treats HIV, a medical condition, … of illegal substances.” However, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has previously … the latest LGBTIQA+ Sister Girl and Brother Boy news, entertainment …
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Cúirt literature festival returns to Galway with array of queer highlights
17 Apr 2024 16:05 GMT
The Cúirt International Festival of Literature is returning to Galway for its 39th year, filling its streets with literary galore as novelists, poets, writers, speakers and self-identified bookworms flock to the City of Tribes for the week. Cúirt is …
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Crisis Centre presses for action on marital rape bill
18 Apr 2024 13:27 GMT
… recent figures on how many women seek help from the … seen and [unfortunately lost] women who were raped by husbands … relationships and ended up getting HIV as a result,” said … Nicolls, Crisis Centre volunteer and human rights activist, said the group wants …