HIV Health and Wellness

Australia: Research shows religious debates taking heavy toll

New research shows that LGBTIQ Australians feel the current social situation, with the ongoing religious freedom debates, is worse now than during the 2017 same-sex marriage debate.

Jamaica: Discriminatory Anti-Sodomy Law Fuels HIV in Jamaica

In testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), AIDS-Free World’s Sarah Bosha delivered a forceful denunciation of the anti-sodomy provisions in Jamaica’s Offenses Against the Persons Act, arguing that the Colonial-era law is instrumental in the spread of the HIV epidemic in the Caribbean region and violates the American Convention on Human Rights, which Jamaica ratified in 1978.

Canada: A call for action on overdose among LGBTQ people in North America

It is essential for addiction services for LGBTQ people to be welcoming, evidence-informed, client-centred, safe, reflexive, and non-judgmental, while also promoting dignity and respect in all encounters with LGBTQ clients.

Kenya: LGBT+ delegates say sidelined at 'inclusive' global sexual health summit

A global summit on sexual and reproductive health hailed by organisers as being an inclusive event failed to adequately hear the voices of sexual minorities, some LGBT+ delegates said as the three-day event ended on Thursday.

UNFPA: ICPD25 Outlines Pathway for Attaining the Rights of Women and Girls

ICPD25, held in the Kenyan capital Nairobi from November 12-14 and marking the 25th anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, ended with bold commitments towards attainment of the rights of women and girls.

Switzerland: Former Welsh Rugby Captain Gareth Thomas speaks passionately about confronting HIV-related stigma

Together We Can joined together leading HIV experts, scientists, researchers, activists and communities of people living with HIV to discuss the latest progress towards ending AIDS in Europe.

Suicides fall with gay marriage in Sweden, Denmark as stigma fades

The advent of gay marriage has cut suicide rates among lesbians and gay men in Sweden and Denmark - but, divorced, widowed or married, homosexuals are still more prone to suicide than their straight peers, according to a study released on Thursday.

Australia: Religious Discrimination Bill could see 'religious views interfere in patient care'

Equality Australia claimed "these cases matter because the "draft Religious Discrimination Bill 2019 will make it easier for personal religious views to interfere with patient healthcare".