UNAIDS and IAEA forge a powerful partnership against the interlinked diseases of cervical cancer and HIV

UNAIDS and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have joined forces to increase action against cervical cancer and HIV. In a memorandum of understanding signed following an event to mark World Cancer Day at the headquarters of IAEA in Vienna, Austria, the two organizations pledged to scale up and expand services for adolescent girls and women affected by the two diseases.   

Guyana: LGBTQ+ community makes demands ahead of elections

General and regional elections is less than a month away and Guyana’s leading gay rights activist group –the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) – has launched what it calls a manifesto with a list of changes it wishes to see from a new Government.

US: Proposed bans put nearly 17,000 transgender youth at risk of losing access to gender-affirming care

An estimated 16,750  transgender youth in the U.S. ages 13 and older are at risk of being denied gender-affirming medical care due to proposed state bans.

US: Bayard Rustin, gay civil rights icon, pardoned by California governor for anti-gay charges

Rustin, a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. and organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was arrested in 1953 when he was found having sex with two men. He served 50 days in jail.