HIV Health and Wellness

UN: Call for inputs on conversion therapy

The Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity will present a thematic report at the 44th session of the Human Rights Council which will focus on practices of so-called “conversion therapy” on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse people around the world.

Ensuring that people and communities have the power to choose, to know, to thrive and to demand is the key to ending AIDS

Game-changing approaches, such as medicine to prevent HIV (PrEP), integration of contraceptive services with HIV testing, viral load suppression (U = U), harm reduction, and comprehensive sexuality education, give people the power to protect themselves from HIV and, for people living with HIV, the power to thrive

Thailand: 10 HIV & LGBTI Heroes Honoured at Bangkok World AIDS Day and International Human Rights Day Gala

Heroes of HIV, LGBTI rights and community health worker were among 10 people and organisations who were honoured at the 2019 Asia Pacific HERO Awards gala in Bangkok last night.

Communities at The Forefront in the HIV/AIDS Response

Since the first identification of HIV/AIDS in the United States of America (USA), in 1981, approximately 80 million people have been infected with HIV, and over 40 million have died of AIDS – the highest global death toll of all time – and also one of the world’s most serious public health challenges. 

China: A crowdsourced intervention to promote hepatitis B and C testing among men who have sex with men in China: A nationwide online randomized controlled trial

Crowdsourcing may be an effective strategy to develop test promotion materials. We conducted an online randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate a crowdsourced intervention to promote hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China.

UNAIDS: COMMUNITIES MAKE THE DIFFERENCE

The commemoration of World AIDS Day, which will take place on 1 December 2019, is an important opportunity to recognize the essential role that communities have played and continue to play in the AIDS response at the international, national and local levels.