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YEMEN: New law to guarantee rights of people living with HIV - by PlusNews, www.plusnews.org, on 06/27/08: http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=78980 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"SANAA, 27 June 2008 (PlusNews) - A Yemeni non-governmental organisation, made up of members of parliament, has prepared a draft law aimed at guaranteeing the rights of people living with HIV and preventing the spread of the virus. If approved, Yemen would be the third Middle Eastern state to pass such a law, after Djibouti and Sudan. 'People's rights are guaranteed in the constitution but we want to reinforce them through a specific law,' said Abdul-Bari Dughaish, chairman of Parliamentarians to Prevent HIV/AIDS, which drafted the law. He told IRIN/PlusNews that the proposed law also aimed to reduce stigma directed at people living with the virus and to guarantee their right to lead normal lives by prohibiting discrimination against HIV-positive people seeking accommodation and services. It would also outlaw the dismissal of workers based on their HIV status. HIV-positive people risked being fired from their jobs and their children dismissed from school, because contracting the virus was sometimes viewed as a punishment from God, he commented. <br><br>
Dughaish said the draft law would also commit the Ministry of Health to educating people about HIV and how to prevent it, and to adding information about HIV and AIDS to Yemen's school curriculum. 'We want to tell people that anyone can be HIV-positive. It is not only associated with sexual transmission,' he said. There are about 2,400 registered cases of HIV/AIDS in Yemen, but studies suggest that for every reported case, 20 to 30 go unreported. The draft law also makes provision for a government fund to be established to support HIV-positive people and their families, and for the state to seek assistance from the private sector and international donors to accomplish all the goals set out in the proposed legislation."
(PDF - 164 Kb) Document Date: 27 Jun 2008 (Downloads: 136)
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La financiación pública para prevenir el Sida en Guatemala es insuficiente, según la OPS / Public financing for HIV prevention in Guatemala is not sufficient, according to OPS (Panamerican Health Organization)- BY Agencia EFE, 07/27/10: http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5jNYxOYuujHDReAV7bKic-I94U3hA (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Guatemala, 27 jul (EFE).- La Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) advirtió hoy que la financiación pública destinada para prevenir y combatir el sida en Guatemala es insuficiente al cubrir apenas el 12 por ciento de las necesidades anuales en esa materia." <br><br> "Además de ello, agregó Balladelli, se deben reforzar las capacidades de las instituciones de defensa de los derechos humanos en relación con el VIH, a fin de alcanzar "un impacto favorable en la reducción del estigma, la discriminación, la homofobia y maltrato hacia los grupos de la diversidad sexual, que han de considerarse entre los más vulnerables a la epidemia".<br><br>
"The Panamerican Health Organization (OPS) announced today that public financing destined for the prevention and combat of AIDS in Guatemala is sufficient to cover only about 12% of the annual necessities in that area."<br><br>
"Aside from that, added Balladelli, they need to reinforce the capacity of the human rights defense institutions relating to HIV, with the goal of achieving a favorable impact on the reduction of stigma, discrimination, homophobia and mistreatmeant towards sexually diverse groups, which must be considered the most vulnerable to the epidemic."
(PDF - 109 Kb) Document Date: 27 Jul 2010 (Downloads: 92)
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Afrique : La communauté gay sans défense face au VIH/SIDA / Gay community helpless against HIV/AIDS - By IRIN, Afrik.com, 03/06/07 : http://www.afrik.com/article11308.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
« La stigmatisation liée à l'homophobie, le déni de l'homosexualité et les législations qui criminalisent les relations entre personnes du même sexe, tout cela a conduit à rendre encore moins visibles les questions liées à la transmission du VIH entre personnes du même sexe, et a limité de manière drastique l'accès de ces personnes aux services VIH », a dit Cary Alan Johnson, spécialiste principal de l?IGLHRC pour l?afrique.
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?Stigmatization linked to homophobia, denial of homosexuality and laws punishing same sex relations have led to make the issue of the transmission of the virus between persons of the same sex even less visible and has dramatically limited the access to HIV services for these people? said Cary Alan Johnson, main expert of IGLHRC for Africa.
(PDF - 369 Kb) Document Date: 6 Mar 2007 (Downloads: 143)
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Afrique de l'Ouest : quand l'homophobie alimente la propagation du VIH / West Africa : when homophobia fuels the propagation of the HIV - By IRIN, 07/17/08 : http://www.irinnews.org/fr/PrintReport.aspx?ReportId=79315 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
La persistance, voire la recrudescence, des violences à l'encontre des membres de la communauté gay en Afrique menace les efforts déployés pour lutter contre le VIH non seulement au sein de ce groupe, mais aussi de la population générale, ont averti des activistes lors d'une récente rencontre à Limbé, au Cameroun.
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The increase of violence against members of the gay community in Africa threatens the efforts accomplished in the fight against HIV not only within this group but within the general population, activists warned during a recent meeting in Limbé, Cameroon.
(PDF - 342 Kb) Document Date: 17 Jul 2008 (Downloads: 81)
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Haiti : Les homosexuels de la Caraïbe restent dans le placard/Homosexuals in the Caribean stay in the closet - By Institut Panos, Le Nouvelliste, 08/13/2008 : http://www.lenouvelliste.com/article.php?PubID=1&ArticleID=61106 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Translated in full by Etienne Kochoyan
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Si les avancées des scientifiques arrivent à faire du sida une maladie chronique, la double stigmatisation - homosexualité/sida - demeure lancinante pour la Caraïbe, après l'Afrique, la région la plus touchée par le virus du sida. En Haïti et à la Jamaïque, la vie des hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec d'autres hommes demeure cachée. Et pour cause.
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Scientific breakthroughs have turned HIV into a manageable chronic disease but the double stigmatization homosexuality/HIV is still rampant in the Caribbean which is after Africa, the region most affected by the virus. In Hai?ti and in Jamaica, the life of men having sex with other men is still hidden. There are good reasons
(PDF - 152 Kb) Document Date: 13 Aug 2008 (Downloads: 126)
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Haiti Chéri...- By Djems Olivier, Le Nouvelliste, 05/24/06 : http://www.lenouvelliste.com/articleforprint.php?PubID=1&ArticleID=29803 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Translated in full by Etienne Kochoyan
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Dans une société aussi machiste qu'Haïti, où l'insulte créole suprême est de traiter quelqu'un de 'masisi', il est suicidaire en effet de se dire ouvertement homosexuel. 'Je suis toujours prêt à casser la gueule de ces fils de pute', crache d'ailleurs Ronald, un sportif qui pratique le body building et qui ne se gène pas pour dire que les homosexuels le dégoûtent. D'aucuns passent allégrement aux actes et prennent un malin plaisir à humilier et à frapper tous ceux soupçonnés d'être homosexuels, comme s'ils voulaient se rassurer sur leur propre orientation sexuelle.
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In such a machismo-ridden society like Haiti, where the biggest insult is to call someon a "massisi", it is suicide to openly claim one's homosexuality. "I am always ready to beat up those sons of bitches" barks Ronald, a sportsman who pratcices body building and who has no qualms in saying that he is disgusted by homosexuals. Some go on and do just that, taking pleasure in humilitating and beating up all of those who are suspected to be homosexuals, as is they wanted to reassure themselves of their own sexual orientation.
(PDF - 68 Kb) Document Date: 24 May 2006 (Downloads: 125)
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Homosexualité et sida : un sujet trop souvent tabou en Afrique / Homosexuality and HIV, a thema that is too often taboo in Africa - By Claire Schaffner, Afrik.com, 07/22/09 : http://www.afrik.com/article17201.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
La revue médicale the Lancet a publié lundi la première étude scientifique qui prouve que les homosexuels de sexe masculin sont plus souvent contaminés par le VIH que le reste de la population adulte en Afrique subsaharienne. Exclus de la société dans de nombreux pays du continent, ces hommes sont oubliés des campagnes de prévention contre le virus.
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The medical review The Lancet published on monday the first scientific study proving that homosexual men are more often contaminated by the HIV virus than the rest of the adult population in subsaharan africa. Marginalised in many countries of the continent, these men are forgotten by prevention campaigns.
(PDF - 409 Kb) Document Date: 22 Jul 2009 (Downloads: 98)
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RDC : L'homosexualité en Afrique, un tabou persistant / DRC : Homosexuality in Africa, a long-lived taboo - By Christophe Cassiau-Haurie and Sylvestre Luwa, 05/05/09 : http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=article&no=8630 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
L'HOMOSEXUALITÉ RESTE ENCORE TRÈS MAL ACCEPTÉE DANS LA MAJORITÉ DES PAYS DU CONTINENT. LA RÉPUBLIQUE DÉMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO N'ÉCHAPPE PAS À CETTE RÈGLE. DANS CET IMMENSE ÉTAT D'AFRIQUE CENTRALE DOMINÉ PAR LA CULTURE BANTOUE LES RÉACTIONS SONT TOUTES TRÈS NÉGATIVES QUOIQUE ASSEZ VARIÉES. ABSENCE DE VIRILITÉ POUR LES HOMMES, SORCELLERIE ET MAUVAIS ESPRITS, PASSAGE OBLIGÉ POUR S'ENRICHIR OU AVOIR LE POUVOIR, TOUS LES STÉRÉOTYPES Y PASSENT. POUR D'AUTRES, L'HOMOSEXUALITÉ EST UN PHÉNOMÈNE IMPORTÉ DE L'OCCIDENT, INTRODUIT DURANT LA COLONISATION. PAR LA SUITE, LA MODERNITÉ ET LE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES MÉDIAS AVEC SON COROLAIRE D'IMAGES PRÔNANT L'HOMOSEXUALITÉ AURAIT CONTINUÉ À "CORROMPRE" LES MENTALITÉS SUR LE CONTINENT NOIR.
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Homosexuality is still not accepted in most countries of the continent. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no exception. In this huge central african state dominated by the Bantoo culture, reactions are all negative although varied. Absence of manhood for the men, witchcraft and bad spirits, prerequisite to be rich and powerful, all the stereotypes are alive and well. FOr others, homosexuality is a phenomenon imported from the west, introduced during the colonization. Modernity and the media thereafter continued to corrupt the mentalities on the black continent.
(PDF - 183 Kb) Document Date: 5 May 2009 (Downloads: 154)
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Senegal : La récente vague d'homophobie fait ses premières victimes du sida / Recent Homophobic outburst takes its toll among HIV positive patients- Published by IRIN, 08/21/09 : http://fr.meblack.com/the-news/52-irin-senegal-la-recente-vag By (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Décès, abandon de traitement, suspension des efforts de prévention et recrudescence des comportements à risque : bien qu'encore difficiles à évaluer, les effets du récent regain de violence à l'encontre de la communauté MSM (Hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec d'autres hommes, en anglais) sur la propagation du VIH au Sénégal commencent à se faire ressentir, ont averti plusieurs acteurs de la lutte contre le sida.
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Death, abandon of treatment, suspension of the prevention campaigns and increase of the frequency of risky behaviours : althought they are still hard to evaluate, the consequences of the recent outburst of violence against the MSM community on the propagation of the HIV virus in Senegal are sensible, activists warned.
(PDF - 101 Kb) Document Date: 29 Aug 2009 (Downloads: 105)
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Senegal : Sida : le calvaire des homosexuels africains / Aids : the misery of African gays, By Charlotte Pudlowski, Slate.fr, 11/28/09 : http://www.slate.fr/story/13611/sida-homosexuels-africains-calvaire (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Cette montée de l'homophobie est instrumentalisée par des Imams radicaux, trop contents de dénoncer les «ravages moraux provoqués par l'occidentalisation de la société». Dès lors, les homosexuels séropositifs se cachent plus que jamais. Leur famille et leurs proches ignorent tout de leur condition. C'est le seul moyen pour eux de continuer à vivre normalement. Et de ne pas risquer leur vie.
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The rise of homophobia is used by radical imams, elated to denounce the "moral havoc caused by the westernization of society". Seropositive homosexuals are more than ever trying to hide. Their family and friends ignore everything of their condition. It is the only way for them to keep on living normally. And to stay safe.
(PDF - 514 Kb) Document Date: 29 Nov 2009 (Downloads: 137)
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Sida : La stigmatisation de l'homosexualité en Afrique pèse sur la prévention / AIDS : Stigmatization of homosexuality in Africa undermines prevention - Published in Tétu.com, 07/20/09 : http://www.tetu.com/actualites/sante/sida-la-stigmatisation-de-lhomosexualite-en-afrique-pese-sur-la-prevention-15121 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
Se basant sur des données rapportées entre 2003 et 2009, les chercheurs britanniques peuvent affirmer que la prévalence du virus du sida est généralement plus élevée en Afrique parmi les hommes ayant des pratiques sexuelles avec d'autres hommes que parmi la population masculine globale, une situation qui se retrouve dans la plupart des régions du monde. Mais dans certains pays d'Afrique de l'ouest, où la prévalence chez les gays est plus de 10 fois supérieure à la population masculine globale, déjà fortement touchée, le nombre de personnes potentiellement concernées est alarmant.
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Based on data collected between 2003 and 2009, British researchers have found that the prevalence of the virus in Africa is in general higher among men having sex with men that in the rest of the masculine population, a situation that is to be found in most regions of the world. But in some west-african countries, where the prevalence among the gays is ten times as high as that among the rest of the masculine population, already very affected, the number of people concerned is alarming.
(PDF - 617 Kb) Document Date: 20 Jul 2009 (Downloads: 114)
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Kuwait: Growing Crackdown on Transgender People-By Hypatia-01/17/08-http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4196 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br Authorities should immediately release more than a dozen persons jailed under Kuwait's new dress-code law, Human Rights Watch said today. The law, approved by the National Assembly on December 10, 2007, criminalizes people who "imitate the appearance of the opposite sex."<br>"The wave of arrests in the past month shows exactly why Kuwait should repeal this repressive law," said Joe Stork, deputy director of the Middle East division at Human Rights Watch. "Kuwaiti authorities should immediately drop all charges against those arrested, and investigate charges of ill-treatment in detention."
(PDF - 370 Kb) Document Date: 7 Jan 2008 (Downloads: 137)
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Lebanon: Finding Safe Harbor Law firm recognized for helping LGBT asylum seekers-By Metroweekly-05/19/05-http://www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=1593 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Karim, 38, left Lebanon nearly 20 years to come to America on a student visa. But that student visa expired long ago, and the United States wants him to leave. But returning to Lebanon is an option that leaves Karim fearing for his life.<br>?It's still a very traditional country,? Karim says, during a small window of time he's allowed to use the phone while in detention. ?[Homosexuality] is still a taboo subject. I cannot survive there. My life could be in jeopardy, in danger.?
(PDF - 354 Kb) Document Date: 19 May 2005 (Downloads: 98)
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Lebanon: Homosexuality in Lebanon-By Global Voices-09/20/08-http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/20/lebanon-homosexuality-in-lebanon/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> Some people relate the attitude towards homosexuality in Arab countries to Islam, but that?s not completely true. Arabs, Muslims and Christians, consider homosexuality to be a sin. All Arabs are attached to religion; the Church and the Mosque have a key role in Arabs lives. Born as a Muslim, I feel it is very important to explain Islam?s and Sheiks?* views of homosexuality.<br>Some scriptures of the Quran, the Holy Book of Islam, were taken out of context, added to a Hadith** not correctly reported to Prophet Muhammad, and conveyed to Muslims by ignorant Sheiks to form a general look at homosexuality as a sin that is against the nature intended by god for humans. In this Hadith, gay guys caught in act are to be killed by throwing them down from the highest building in town. Considering that most buildings in most Arab peninsula?s towns were about 5-7 meters high at that time, this Hadith seems very ridiculous.
(PDF - 96 Kb) Document Date: 20 Sep 2008 (Downloads: 138)
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Lebanon: Homosexuals still facing discrimination-By IRINnews.org-12/07/05-http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=25789 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> With his hair band, groomed eyebrows and designer bag, Wisam nurtures a distinctively effeminate look. When the 30-year-old filmmaker crossed Sassine Square in East Beirut last April, four young men beat him up because they did not like his style. Although dozens of people were sitting at the square?s many café terraces, no one interfered. Wisam left the scene with a bruised face and bloody nose. ?I immediately filed charges, but the police only made fun of my shaved legs,? he recounted. ?They noted down everything, but never acted?. Despite this incident and others like it, however, Lebanese homosexuals note that ?gay-bashing? is relatively uncommon in Lebanon, compared to other Arab countries.
(PDF - 150 Kb) Document Date: 7 Dec 2005 (Downloads: 99)
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Lebanon: Homosxuality in Muslim Countries-By Afrol News-08/08/06-http://www.afrol.com/features/10270 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br> The majority of Muslim countries outlaw same-sex relationships. The seven countries in the world that carry the death penalty for persons presumed guilty of homosexual acts, justify this punishment with the Shari'a. Culture is not, however, always "against us and there are positive examples of same-sex relationships to be found in different Muslim cultures," she writes.
(PDF - 77 Kb) Document Date: 8 Aug 2006 (Downloads: 167)
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Lebanon: Muslim gay wins asylum appeal-By Manchester Evening News-07/20/05-http://menmedia.co.uk/news/s/166/166595_gay_muslim_wins_asylum_appeal.html (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
This document was provided by Immigration Equality, New York, NY<br><br Dr Alan George, a specialist in Middle Eastern political and economic affairs, gave written evidence that homosexuality is condemned by Muslims both in Lebanese and Palestinian society and that gay people were subject to abuse and serious discrimination.<br>Lord Justice Keene said the adjudicator had not dealt with the "substantial" evidence which pointed to the acute problems faced by a man who was both a Palestinian refugee and a homosexual.
(PDF - 42 Kb) Document Date: 20 Jul 2005 (Downloads: 83)
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Algerian transsexual's memoirs reveal life of discrimination - BBC on 07/09/10: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/09/randa.algeria.transsexual.lebanon/ (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
An Algerian transsexual has published her memoirs, describing the discrimination she faced in her home country, which culminated in death threats that forced her to flee to Lebanon.<br><br>As an adult Randa worked as a nurse in a clinic and set up a support group for gays and transsexuals in Algeria. But she said her public support for homosexuals brought unwelcome attention from the authorities, in a country where homosexuality and transsexuality is illegal.<br><br>Randa said she was eventually forced to flee the country after receiving written and verbal death threats from radical religious groups.
(PDF - 54 Kb) Document Date: 9 Jul 2010 (Downloads: 95)
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ANGOLA: Invisible and vulnerable- by:PlusNews, 06/19/08: http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=78814 (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"I've had rocks thrown at me in the street. I used to think I was the only transvestite in Viana [a neighborhood of Luanda]," she told IRIN/PlusNews. Edna, 21, who was born Edson*, dropped out of school in 8th grade because she suffered so much persecution from her classmates. Not surprisingly, few individuals in Angola are prepared to risk being open about their homosexuality.
(PDF - 208 Kb) Document Date: 19 Jun 2008 (Downloads: 73)
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At Least 31 Countries Deporting People Living With HIV -by Tim Horn, www.aidsmeds.com, 07/20/10: http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/hiv_deportation_migrant_1667_18781.shtml (Sexual Minorities & HIV Status)
"Of the countries surveyed, 31 said they deported people living with HIV. In alphabetical order, these countries are Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Hungary, India, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstain, Korea (North and South), Kuwait, Malaysia, Moldova, Mongolia, Oman, Panama, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Yemen." <br><br> In Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, there is a high number of mostly Asian migrant workers, all of whom are subjected to mandatory HIV testing. If HIV test results are found to be positive, migrants face detention in prison-like hospital cells for up to one year without treatment. ?Many HIV-positive people die while waiting deportation,? Weissner said. In 2008, he added, 1,518 people living with HIV, hepatitis B and tuberculosis were deported from the United Arab Emirates alone.
(PDF - 505 Kb) Document Date: 20 Jul 2010 (Downloads: 91)
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