HIV Health and Wellness

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Thailand: “We cannot provide only HIV services while sex workers are hungry”: Thai community organization steps in

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When the Thai government ordered the closure of entertainment venues in the country in March, it didn’t just signal an end to pulsating music and rounds of drinks shared with friends. It also signalled the start of difficult times for an estimated 145 000 sex workers living in Thailand.

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UNAIDS: Impact on Mental Health and Quality of Life in Time of Covid-19 for YKP and YPLHIV

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Using the findings from the rapid response survey, this current blog focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and quality of life of young key populations and young people living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific.

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Creating CARE and Sustaining Well-Being: Reflections from Queer Organizing across South & Southeast Asia

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A collaborative endeavor by Rima Athar, Liy Yusof and Sonaksha Iyengar–this publication illustrates conversations & reflections on building a framework for action on holistic well-being for activists

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UN: Report on conversion therapy

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The term “therapy”, derived from the Greek, denotes “healing”. However, practices of “conversion therapy” are the very opposite: they are deeply harmful interventions that rely on the medically false idea that LGBT and other gender diverse persons are sick, inflicting severe pain and suffering, and resulting in long-lasting psychological and physical damage.

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UK: Philip Normal, the UK's first openly HIV+ mayor, teams fashion with politics

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As Britain's first openly HIV-positive mayor, Philip Normal says his responsibilities stretch far beyond his constituents in Lambeth, the inner-city borough that perhaps best epitomises London's demographic hotchpotch.

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Argentina: “I don’t want to die of COVID-19, but I’m starving, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep on taking my ARVs for HIV”

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The Americas Volunteer Strategy was born in the days of COVID-19. An initiative launched by Marcela and her colleagues from the MLCM+ with the support of the UNAIDS office for the Southern Cone, which to date is present in 17 countries in the region, with 850 volunteers, and more than 3,000 requests for help.

Cananda: HIV-AIDS taught us not to police a disease outbreak, say experts. Did the lesson stick?

The Canadian death toll from HIV — the human immunodeficiency virus that, in its most advanced stages, becomes AIDS — peaked at 1,764 in 1995, a year that ended with the hopeful news that a landmark drug had been approved.