In an attempt to prevent teenage pregnancy, the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights is studying creating a program that encourages young people not to have sex or to postpone the onset of sexual life.
Pakistan has extended a government health insurance scheme to transgender people for the first time, in a move aimed at ending discrimination in access to care, an official said.
Kirby Institute researchers have found that gay and bisexual men who use crystal methamphetamine during sex (a practice known as chemsex) are more likely to include biomedical HIV prevention strategies when engaging in condomless sex than those who do not use crystal methamphetamine.
The LGBTI advocacy group Alternatives-Cameroon has organized specialized sessions for doctors in need of training in how to treat LGBTI patients, in particular patients at community centers who need proctology services.
The German Cabinet approved a bill to ban the advertising or offering of "conversion therapy" to transgender and gay people. The proposed legislation was expanded to include 16- to 18-year-olds.
Fundamentalist Christian groups from 23 countries descended on Taipei in October to strategize about how to roll back protections for sexual minorities and influence public opinion and policy
In her plenary address at the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa this month, Cindy Kelemi, executive director of the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law, and HIV/AIDS, called attention to missing political leadership in the HIV response.
