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‘To protect LGBTQ+ people’s health, we must protect LGBTQ+ people’s rights’ Ghana’s parliament (Photo courtesy of ISSAfrica.org) A group of progressive West African faith leaders have denounced a proposed bill in Ghana to jail every acknowledged homosexual, increase penalties for same-sex intimacy, and prohibit “promotion” of LGBTQ behavior. Meanwhile, the United Nations anti-AIDS agency (UNAIDS) issued a statement opposing a similar …

Commentary: UNAIDS is the glue that holds together the global fight against AIDS. Worldwide, deaths from AIDS have dropped 50 percent from 2000 to 2024. (Chart courtesy of UNAIDS) Over the past two decades, UNAIDS, the United Nations agency that coordinates the fight against AIDS, has seen dramatic reductions in fatalities related to AIDS.  Much remains to be done — especially …