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  http://degrees.fhi360.org/2012/09/turning-the-tide-increasing-access-to-hiv-prevention-and-care-for-men-who-have-sex-with-men-in-ghana/      A Q&A with Kim Green, Deputy Country Director for Ghana, FHI 360 — According to the most recent Lancet issue, even though men who have sex with men (MSM) bear a disproportionate burden of HIV, they continue to be excluded from HIV services because of stigma, discrimination and criminalization. One of the primary challenges to reducing HIV prevalence is providing health care workers with training that breaks down stigma and humanizes men who have sex with men. FHI 360 is partnering with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the national government of Ghana, and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and health workers to implement innovative programs aimed at turning that tide. In the following conversation, Kimberly Green, FHI 360's Deputy Country Director in Ghana,

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----- Forwarded Message ----- From: GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE UG <gala4ug@yahoo.com> To: gay group <lgbti-info-uganda@googlegroups.com> Cc: LGBTI health africa <LGBTI_health_africa@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 10:40 PM Subject: [LGBTI_health_africa] Straight, Gay or Lying? Bisexuality Revisited     Straight, Gay or Lying? Bisexuality Revisited William Duke By   BENEDICT CAREY Some people are attracted to women; some are attracted to men. And some, if Sigmund Freud, Dr. Alfred Kinsey and millions of self-described bisexuals are to be believed, are drawn to both sexes. But a new study casts doubt on whether true bisexuality exists, at least in men. The study, by a team of psychologists in Chicago and Toronto, lends support to those who have long been skeptical that bisexuality is a distinct and stable sexual orientation. People who claim bisexuality, according to these critics

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Global Fund Observer (Nairobi) Africa: Don't Compromise Your Principles in the New Funding Model, Global Fund Told 3 August 2012 press release At the International AIDS Conference, protestors disrupted the start of a session on the Global Fund in order to deliver a message that the Fund's new funding model must be demand driven, and must not place caps on requests from countries. The protestors asked some of the panellists to sign a pledge along these lines. Global Fund General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo was one of the signatories. The Global Fund's new funding model must be demand driven, and must not place caps on requests from individual countries. This was the message delivered by a group of activists on 26 July at a session on the Global Fund at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. The Global Fund is in the process of designing a new model to replace the

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jim Pickett < JPickett@aidschicago.org > Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:21 PM Subject: [RectalMicro IRMA] Uganda AIDS Activist Sees Hope in Rectal Microbicides To: " RECTALMICRO@CRITPATH.ORG " < RECTALMICRO@lists.critpath.org > Uganda AIDS Activist Sees Hope in Rectal Microbicides http://www.citizen-news.org/2012/07/uganda-aids-activist-sees-hope-in.html#more UGANDAN AIDS activist and medical doctor, Paul Semugoma , 42, said that rectal microbicides have a potential to save the unnecessary loss of lives among men who have sex with men in Uganda and across Africa. According to a study titled, " HIV Infection among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Kampala, Uganda – A Respondent Driven Sampling Survey ," it is estimated that the adult male HIV prevalence in Kampala is 4.5 per cent but the prevalence estimates among men who have sex with men (MSM) is 13.7 per cent. Most MSM still hav