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Showing posts with label World AIDS Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World AIDS Day. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
World AIDS Day 2010 Universal Access & Human Rights - A Global Health Community Statement
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Monday, November 29, 2010
PrEP Implementation Where Homophobia Reigns?
MSM groups hail pill to prevent HIV, but...
via PlusNews
Excerpt:
And speaking of homophobia,
The GAY AND LESBIAN COALITION OF KENYA has not been invited to World AIDS Day activities in that country...
From the GALCK website:
For the first time since 2006, GALCK has not been invited by the National Aids Control Council to this year’s World Aids Day – normally marked on the 1st of December each year. This is particularly ironical because this year’s theme “Access and Human Rights” resonated so uniquely with the plight of our community.
It is to be remembered that the last two years have increasingly been difficult for GALCK and the groups because even though officially invited, often there would be no space allocated for us. Given the enormous preparation that goes into participating into the event, we had previously taken up available free spaces – often spaces not allocated to anyone.
Perhaps given the recent hostile reception of the message from the Minister for Special Programs, Hon., Esther Murugi, requiring the government and society to give services to men who have sex with men – MSM and sex workers, and the pending recognition of NACC as a parastatal through an Act of Parliament, NACC wants to distance themselves from criminalized groups such as sexual minorities.
Read the rest.
And more homophobia
Kenya PM Orders Gays' Arrest - via Daily Nation
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via PlusNews
Excerpt:
"We are as happy as anyone out there about the findings from this study, but fear that unless our countries reconsider their laws, many MSM will not benefit from its results," said David Kuria, chairman of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya.Read the whole item.
And speaking of homophobia,
The GAY AND LESBIAN COALITION OF KENYA has not been invited to World AIDS Day activities in that country...
From the GALCK website:
For the first time since 2006, GALCK has not been invited by the National Aids Control Council to this year’s World Aids Day – normally marked on the 1st of December each year. This is particularly ironical because this year’s theme “Access and Human Rights” resonated so uniquely with the plight of our community.
It is to be remembered that the last two years have increasingly been difficult for GALCK and the groups because even though officially invited, often there would be no space allocated for us. Given the enormous preparation that goes into participating into the event, we had previously taken up available free spaces – often spaces not allocated to anyone.
Perhaps given the recent hostile reception of the message from the Minister for Special Programs, Hon., Esther Murugi, requiring the government and society to give services to men who have sex with men – MSM and sex workers, and the pending recognition of NACC as a parastatal through an Act of Parliament, NACC wants to distance themselves from criminalized groups such as sexual minorities.
Read the rest.
And more homophobia
Kenya PM Orders Gays' Arrest - via Daily Nation
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Build on Prevention Science Advances this World AIDS Day
New Prevention Advances: Can We Now Imagine a World Without AIDS?
via Huffington Post, by Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Ward Cates and Salim Abdul Karim
Last week, UNAIDS announced that at least 56 countries have stable or declining incidence of HIV/AIDS. Yet on World AIDS Day this week, there are still two new infections for every person put on antiretroviral therapy. However, a series of promising new scientific results in prevention, including three breakthrough trials in just 16 months, offer the first glimmer of hope that we may finally be able to achieve the "three zeros" -- zero new infections, zero stigma/discrimination and zero AIDS deaths.
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via Huffington Post, by Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Ward Cates and Salim Abdul Karim
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Celebrities Die Digitally for AIDS
Farewell, Digital World. (It’s All for a Cause.)
via New York Times, by Amy Wallace
ON Wednesday, Kim Kardashian is going to die a little. So is her sister, Khloé, not to mention Lady Gaga, David LaChapelle, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Serena Williams and Elijah Wood.
That day is World AIDS Day, and each of these people (as well as a host of others — the list keeps growing) will sacrifice his or her own digital life. By which these celebrities mean they will stop communicating via Twitter and Facebook. They will not be resuscitated, they say, until their fans donate $1 million.
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