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Africa: Crackdowns on Gays Make the Closet Safer
Jan. 19, 2010
More than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalizing homosexual acts, and despite accounting for a significant percentage of new infections in many countries, men who have sex with men tend to be left out of the HIV response.
"[They] are going underground; they are hiding themselves and continuing to fuel the epidemic," UNAIDS executive director Michél Sidibé told IRIN/PlusNews recently. "We need to make sure these vulnerable groups have the same rights everyone enjoys: access to information, care and prevention for them and their families."
© 2010 IRIN
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 20 January 2010
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