May 21, 2013

Discrimination and stigma in healthcare for gay and bisexual men in parts of Africa

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8008170.stm

By Billy Tsang   Much of Africa’s leadership has and continues to see HIV as a heterosexual epidemic. This is not surprising, as most of Africa still deems homosexuality as illegal and punishable by law. Lane (2008) expresses that even in post-apartheid South Africa, the “only African nation with legal guarantees of equal rights for gay and lesbian citizens and highly visible gay and lesbian communities”, there has been  little attention given to the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM). Academic literature has widely … [Read more...]