HIV Health and Wellness

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US: Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities

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When Sarah Spiegel was in her first year at New York Medical College in 2016, she sat in a lecture hall watching a BuzzFeed video about what it’s like to be an intersex or a transgender person.

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US: Anti-bullying laws that include sexual orientation associated with fewer suicide attempts

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New research from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that anti-bullying laws that explicitly protect youth based on sexual orientation are associated with fewer suicide attempts among all youth, regardless of sexual orientation.

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China: LGBT activists protest sexual orientation therapies in country

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Three slogan-bearing trucks are going from Shanghai to Nanjing as part of a campaign run by three gay rights promoters to protest alleged sexual orientation conversion therapies in China.

Myanmar: Engaging ‘hidden’ men who have sex with men and transgender women in HIV prevention

As many as 50% of MSM and TW may conceal their same-sex preferences and behaviors, yet little is known about the barriers faced by those who are locally regarded as 'hidden' - that is, MSM who do not disclose same-sex preferences and/or identify as gay. 

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Indonesia: FPI and authorities in Pekanbaru raid office of HIV prevention group on suspicion of LGBT activity

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An organization that promotes in HIV/AIDS prevention and sex worker rights may be the latest casualty in Indonesia’s ongoing LGBT moral panic after a raid on one of their offices, by a local hardline Islamic organization, in Riau’s capital city of Pekanbaru.