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Developed Asia Network formed to address HIV-related needs of MSM and transgender people

Delegates formed a regional network to address similar epidemiological profiles, namely rapidly rising HIV and other STI infection rates amongst MSM and transgender people, among other commonalities.

Published
07 December 2010
From
Fridae
Targeted HIV solutions for transgenders, homosexuals

NEW DELHI: India's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has started differentiating between men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgenders.

Published
30 November 2010
From
Times of India
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Asian Pacific authorities undermining progress in addressing HIV epidemic in men who have sex with men and transgender people

During 2010, authorities across the Asia Pacific region have increasingly been targeting men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people, thereby violating basic human rights at best and, at worst, denying access to lifesaving HIV prevention, treatment and care.

Published
30 November 2010
From
Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM)
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Largest Global Fund grant for HIV prevention programming with MSM, hijra and transgender communities signed

Professor Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, signed a US $25 million grant (115 crore rupees) with India HIV/AIDS Alliance, the largest Global Fund grant to date to strengthen men who have sex with men (MSM), hijra and transgender communities in their fight against HIV.

Published
08 September 2010
From
AIDS Portal
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Finding our global voice

Jack Beck of the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) reviews what has now become a regular event preceding the biennial International AIDS Conferences – the

Published
06 September 2010
From
HIV treatment update
Behaviour change interventions
Internet proving a key way to reach men who have sex with men in Africa, Asia and beyond

In the last few years, the scale of the HIV epidemic amongst men who have sex with men in Africa, Asia and Latin America has become clearer. There

Published
18 July 2010
By
Roger Pebody
Transmission and prevention
India legalises sex between men

India’s legalisation of sex between men has been hailed as a “restoration of dignity and human rights” by UNAIDS. On July 2nd the Delhi High Court

Published
02 July 2009
By
Michael Carter
Delivery of care
Appropriate prevention and care services for men who have sex with men and transgender people in resource-limited settings

This issue provides an overview of the challenges (and responses) of providing prevention and care services to men who have sex with men and transgender

Published
09 June 2009
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Mental and emotional health and wellbeing
One-in-five HIV-positive individuals thought of suicide in past week, finds US study

Thoughts of suicide are common amongst HIV-positive individuals, American researchers have found. However, in a study published in the May 31st edition of AIDS, they

Published
16 May 2007
By
Michael Carter
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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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