TAG: HIV&AIDS

US HIV/AIDS policy

USA: On December 18th 2009, the SPW website posted an article written by Natalie Wittlin about the retention of the ‘prostitution pledge’ in the new proposed US HIV/AIDS policy guidelines announced by the Obama Administration on November 23rd. On December 29th, the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo published an article entitled The United States will provide funds to prostitutes, which the content contradicted SPW’s analysis of PEPFAR.

US Funding for HIV/AIDS

USA: Even with Obama, the prostitution pledge remains on place in the case of PEPFAR, the US Funding for HIV/AIDS.

Obama announces he will lift ban on HIV+ visitors to the U.S.

USA: President Obama announced in October 30, 2009 the end of a 22-year ban on travel to the United States by people who had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS. At a White House ceremony, he announced that a rule canceling the ban would be published in November 2, 2009 and would take effect after a routine 60-day waiting period.

Second panel — Science and Sexual Politics

Second panel — Science and Sexual Politics Afternoon – August 24, 2009 In the panel that followed, these points were further examined from rather distinct angles. The session was coordinated by Rogério Diniz Junqueira, researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP- Brazilian Ministry of Eduaction). Commentators were Tamara Adrian […]

Second session—Science and Sexual Politics

Second session—Science and Sexual Politics Afternoon – August 24, 2009 The overview paper presented in the afternoon section, Science, Gender and Sexuality, was written by Kenneth Camargo, member of Sexuality Policy Watch Advisory Group and associate professor at the Institute of Social Medicine at the Rio de Janeiro State University (IMS/UERJ), Carlos Caceres, also a […]

STATEMENT FROM THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP) ON THE DELHI HIGH COURT’S DECISION ON SECTION 377 OF THE INDIAN PENAL CODE

STATEMENT FROM THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP) ON THE DELHI HIGH COURT’S DECISION ON SECTION 377 OF THE INDIAN PENAL CODE July 2, 2009 Today, India has taken one more step toward strengthening its HIV response, and one step closer to achieving all human rights for all with the Delhi High Court’s decision to […]

Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health visited Poland and Brazil

Anand Grover, the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (the Right to Health) was in Poland from May 4 to May 12. Before this meeting, Anand Grover also attended a South American Consultation about the Right to Health in São Paulo, Brazil, where he met 40 representatives of civil society organizations from Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil.

Migrant labor and sexual politics

Asia, with its high-income countries and rapidly industrializing centers rising in the midst of widespread poverty and regional inequalities, is a primary source and locus of international migration of, often, low-skilled workers from within the region and beyond. As Asian states struggle to cope with these growing fluxes, policies have attempted to deal with migrants’ […]

Lauching Yogyakarta Principles in New York

Summary of the panel discussion on the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Law in Relation to Issues of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity This report below was made by ISHR in cooperation with IGLHRC and HRW This panel discussion was organized to promote the release of the Yogyakarta Principles at UN Headquarters. The […]

Papers and articles Written by SPW’s members

Internet Regulation and Sexual Politics in Brazil The issue 55(2) of Development – Citzenship for Change assesses the potential and unpacks the myths around new modalities of mobilization including social media. You also can read Internet Regulation and Sexual Politics in Brazil, written by Sonia Corrêa, SPW Co-chair, and Horacio Sívori and Bruno Zilli, from […]

A Letter from the Field by Organizations Affected by PEPFAR’s Restrictions

To US Congress Re: PEPFAR January 31, 2008 Dear Member of the US Congress: We are members of non-governmental and community-based organizations from throughout the developing world. We are writing out of concern about the so-called anti-prostitution pledge within the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the ways it affects our work. The […]