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Social, economic, legal and political issues that may affect the lives of people living with HIV, including stigma, discrimination, criminalisation, travel and insurance.

Sex workers

Police crackdowns in China: The health and human rights of sex workers

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Health & Human Rights
29 March 2012
Employment

US Supreme Court Rules Against Pilot Penalized for Hiding His H.I.V. Status

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New York Times
29 March 2012
Activism & civil society

Larry Kramer: Happy Birthday, ACT UP, Wherever You Are

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Huffington Post
28 March 2012
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Uganda: LGBT people risk arrest to attend secret HIV testing session

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Key Correspondents
28 March 2012
Transgender people

Hijras: The Most Visible of India’s Invisible Class

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Wall Street Journal
28 March 2012
Activism & civil society

How To Survive A Plague: On ACT-UP's 25th anniversary, a Look at Activism in the Internet Age

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Huffington Post (blog)
27 March 2012
History of HIV & AIDS

Pictures From a Battlefield - the men and women who started ACT UP

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New York
27 March 2012
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

China: Zhejiang scraps mandatory HIV testing for addicts

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Xinhua
27 March 2012
Employment

ETHIOPIA: New HIV policy focuses on HIV in the workplace

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IRIN Plus News
26 March 2012
Sex workers

Sex work in New South Wales: healthiest in the world

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University of New South Wales press release
23 March 2012
Activism & civil society

ACT UP Commemorates 25th Anniversary

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Poz magazine news
23 March 2012
Experiences of stigma

Patients living with HIV are dying in denial

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Toronto Star
23 March 2012
Harm reduction

Clean Needle Exchange Activists Arrested During Sit-Ins At Congressional Offices

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Huffington Post
22 March 2012
HIV & criminal law

Newspapers attack "irresponsible" AIDS Foundation

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Gay NZ
21 March 2012
Human rights

Aid conditionality and respect for LGBT people rights

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Sexuality Policy Watch
19 March 2012
Activism & civil society

How a glamorous French countess helps Burma's Aids orphans

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The Observer
18 March 2012
Experiences of stigma

Rwanda: 'Women With HIV Denied Right to Inherit'

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AllAfrica
17 March 2012
UK health services

HIV charity urges patients to rate GPs on iWantGreatCare in order to challenge ‘discrimination’

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Pulse
16 March 2012
Sex workers

Sex 'trade', not 'traffic' - Thailand's sex workers don't want to be 'rescued'

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The Nation
15 March 2012
Epidemiology & behaviour

HIV and the Long Tail of Child Sexual Abuse

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Duke University
15 March 2012
Experiences of stigma

Tanzania anger over red ribbon labels for HIV pupils

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BBC
15 March 2012
Support issues for children & young people

Teenagers born with HIV tell of life under society's radar

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The Guardian
12 March 2012
HIV & criminal law

HIV ruling 'over the top' - Aids Foundation

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Radio New Zealand
12 March 2012
HIV & criminal law

Switzerland: New Law on Epidemics only criminalising intentional transmission passed in lower house

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Criminal HIV Transmission
9 March 2012