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Subject: Homosexuality: Nigeria's Anglican church calls for pull out from UN http://www.panapress.com/Homosexuality--Nigeria-s-Anglican-church-calls-for-pull-out-from-UN--3-781164-0-lang4-index.html Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Primate of the Anglican Communion Church in Nigeria, Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, Tuesday called for the withdrawal of the country from the United Nations, accusing human rights activists of using the UN to win their global campaign for gay marriages. Okoh, head of the about 25 million members strong Protestant movement, at a National Conference on Human Rights organized by the Anglican Communion, decried the role UN human rights bodies were playing in the fight for two Malawian boys who got married as homosexuals. The Nigerian Anglican Church is at loggerheads with the world Anglican body over consecration of gay priests and have threatened to severe links with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Head of the global Anglican movement. The Primate said in Abuja that ...

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Georgina Caswell < gcaswell@gnpplus.net > Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:27 PM Subject: [RectalMicro IRMA] GNP+ NEWS RELEASE: Call for human rights-based guidance on PrEP and ART as prevention To: " rectalmicro@lists.critpath.org " < rectalmicro@lists.critpath.org > Two new studies confirm antiretrovirals can prevent HIV transmission: Call for human rights-based guidance on PrEP and ART as prevention   Amsterdam, 18 July 2011 - Preliminary results from two large studies have now shown that a daily antiretroviral tablet taken by people who do not have HIV reduces their risk of contracting HIV by up to 73%. The Partners PrEP trial involved 4758 HIV-discordant couples in Kenya and Uganda. The TDF2 trial involved 1219 men and women in Botswana. The studies looked at both tenofovir or tenofovir plus emtricitabine (Truvada) and found that each, when taken in advance by the HIV-negative partner as a pre-ex...