YouTube closes African channel promoting televangelist’s violent ‘conversion therapy’
Nigerian televangelist Pastor TB Joshua conducts violent exorcisms to ‘cure’ gays and lesbians by casting out “the demon of homosexuality”.
Transgender may be removed as mental disorder
The process of getting transgender declassified as a mental disorder took its first steps with a study conducted in Mexico City. The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal last month, found that the distress and dysfunction experienced by transgender people were more strongly related to the social rejection and violence they experienced than by […]
SA FACES HUGE CUTS IN HIV/AIDS FUNDING
South Africa faces potentially huge cuts in donor support for its HIV/AIDS programme over the next five years.
HOPE FOR AIDS VACCINE
Twenty six years after Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barré-Sinoussi identified the HI virus in Paris, a thousand scientists shared their knowledge last week on how to outsmart it.
SA AIDS PROGRAMME SHORT OF R1-BILLION
SA’s HIV/AIDS treatment programme is short of funds, yet the ANC wants to restructure the health system with a costly National Health Insurance scheme.
HIDDEN HIV EPIDEMIC AMONG GAY MEN
A small study has found a very high HIV rate among gay men in Johannesburg and Durban.