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Russia Cuts Back HIV Adoption Ban

A top court has scrapped Russia’s de-facto ban on allowing people who live with HIV to adopt children.

Published
25 June 2018
From
Moscow Times
Combatting stigma
Phobia about HIV still exists more than 30 years after 1st AIDS case in Canada, activists say

Many people don't recognize that people living with HIV, if they are being properly treated, are not infectious, HIV/AIDS activist Tim McCaskell told CBC Radio's Metro Morning this week. He said the stigma stems from fear.

Published
25 June 2018
From
CBC
Treatment outcomes and life expectancy
Navigating Mixed Messages About HIV

We are required to both downplay the seriousness of HIV and to stress its terrible impact. Here’s the view I favor.

Published
08 June 2018
From
Poz
Experiences of stigma
Gay man refused tattoo because he's HIV-positive

PinkNewsGay man refused tattoo because he's HIV-positivePinkNewsA gay man says he was refused service at one of the UK's biggest tattoo studios – because he is HIV-positive. George Westwood, a 19-year-old Sociology student at the University of Birmingham had gone to the Vida Loca studio in Bolton, Greater ...

Published
30 May 2018
From
PinkNews
Combatting stigma
Nine iconic HIV/AIDS films from 1985 to now

The world of cinema, since the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the ‘80s and the ‘90s, has played a prominent role in fostering and altering mainstream discourse surrounding HIV.

Published
16 May 2018
From
Emen8
People and personal stories
Conchita Wurst reveals she is HIV positive after former boyfriend 'threatened' to out her

Conchita Wurst has revealed she is HIV positive after claiming that a former boyfriend threatened to go public with the information. The 2014 Eurovision winner took to Instagram to share the information with her fans, vowing that she "will not give anyone the right to frighten me and influence my life in the future”.

Published
16 April 2018
From
indy100
HIV and criminal law
New Toolkit Supports Advocates in Using Media to Fight for HIV Justice

When it comes to the widely misunderstood, complex issue of HIV criminalisation, media can be a powerful tool–or a blunt-force weapon. The purpose of a new critical media toolkit is to inform and equip global grassroots advocates who are engaged in media response to HIV criminalisation–and to demystify the practice of working with, and through, media to change the conversation around criminalisation.

Published
15 March 2018
From
HIV Justice Network
Discrimination and the law
UK: HIV+ Man Crowdfunds Legal Challenge After Being ‘Refused Appointment’

A man who says his dentist refused to see him because of his HIV status is now crowdfunding a legal challenge under the Equality Act.

Published
06 March 2018
From
RightsInfo
Combatting stigma
Do you still reject someone just because they have HIV?

For many people living with HIV, it is the stigma that they face that now provides the greatest challenge. Attitudes towards people living with HIV have not progressed as rapidly or as positively as the medical treatment has.

Published
15 February 2018
From
Gay Star News
Combatting stigma
Gianni Versace lived and died in an era of silence around AIDS. 20 years later, little has changed

Character after character speaks of disease and sickness and treatment and dying—but no one truly claims the affliction for themself. Ronnie speaks around the disease, but fails to say its name. A nurse alludes to new therapies, but never says what they’re for. On FX’s Versace biopic, AIDS it seems, is the ultimate four-letter word.

Published
29 January 2018
From
Quartz
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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