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Migrants, refugees and displaced people
Autopsy: Migrant detainee died from AIDS complications

A Honduran transgender migrant, whose 2018 death while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sparked protests and calls for an investigation, died of a rare disorder that developed quickly due to AIDS, according to an autopsy released Tuesday.

Published
10 April 2019
From
San Francisco Chronicle
Transgender people
Providing care for trans women with HIV/AIDS in Peru

Peru's trans women remain a hard-to-reach population for the treatment of HIV/AIDS but the lack of access to care is, in part, due to widespread discrimination. Barbara Fraser reports from Lima.

Published
05 April 2019
From
The Lancet (free registration required)
People and personal stories
Patricia Arquette finishes memoir that details losing her HIV positive and transgender sister Alexis

Patricia Arquette finally finishes her heart-breaking memoir which details the agony of losing her HIV positive, transgender activist sister Alexis.

Published
02 April 2019
From
Daily Mail
Transgender people
Ten Black Transgender Women to Watch

Whether organizing marches and protests, lobbying lawmakers or leading social justice campaigns, Black transgender women are leading the fight for equality and human and civil rights for trans and gender-nonconforming people of color. Here are ten Black trans women nationwide whom other trans women identify as making major moves.

Published
01 April 2019
From
TheBody.com
Transgender people
King's College Hospital launches first transgender sexual health service for South London

9 March 2019 - King’s College Hospital in Camberwell is launching the first sexual health service in south London for trans people. In partnership with cliniQ, the new service will offer a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

Published
01 April 2019
From
King's College Hospital
People and personal stories
Game Changers in HIV: Tonia Poteat

Great HIV medicine and treatment are only half the story. Here's how Tonia Poteat, Ph.D., transformed HIV and LGBTQ health care as a researcher and clinician.

Published
27 March 2019
From
The Body Pro
Transgender people
Partners of transgender women form a separate HIV risk group, Peruvian study finds

A study from Peru’s capital, Lima, has found that the sexual partners of transgender women there are largely heterosexual, cisgender men who rarely have sex

Published
22 March 2019
By
Gus Cairns
Retention and linkage to care
India’s first LGBTQ clinic and HIV treatment centre inaugurated in Mumbai

Based out of the Humsafar Trust’s office jn Mumbai, the centre will give free counselling and provide Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) to the LGBTQ community. TAshok Row Kavi, founder chairperson of the Trust, said: “Until now we would get testing done for the community members at our centre. If tested positive for the disease, they would be asked to go to Sion Hospital, but there was a huge dropout (rate) there. Because of how the community is perceived outside, a lot of these people wouldn’t seek treatment."

Published
12 March 2019
From
Hindustan Times
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Invisible: stories stories of gay and bisexual men and transgender people in Vietnam

After walking a flight of stairs to the second floor of a rented hall in mid-December 2018, I strolled around the large room appreciating a photo-voice exhibition of photographs, each accompanied by a unique story. The photos were set on easels, spread around the room, poster size, with short statements reflecting on the emotions and experiences that each gay and bisexual men and transgender person wanted to convey. The photos told the stories of gay and bisexual men and transgender people’s experiences around barriers and entry points to sexual health services in Hanoi, Son La and other provinces of Vietnam.

Published
27 February 2019
From
M Pact
PrEP programmes and uptake
Cocaine use associated with poor adherence to PrEP and dropping out of care

Cocaine users have poorer adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and engagement with care, according to research published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired

Published
22 February 2019
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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