US: Williams Institute: Culture, not PrEP, linked to spike in STIs

Lead study author Phillip Hammack, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told the Los Angeles Blade: “Our data don’t support the idea that we can attribute the rise in STIs to PrEP use, at least not in a direct manner. I personally don’t think that’s what’s happening.”

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Moldova: World Congress of Families ‘Gender Ideology’ Panel Targets Feminism, ‘Perverts,’ Transgender Identity

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Among the breakout sessions at the World Congress of Families global summit in Moldova last Friday and Saturday was a panel on “Gender Ideology – The Latest Attack on the Family and the Legal Challenges It Poses.”

Trinidad and Tobago to appeal High Court ruling that makes consensual sex between people in same-sex unions legal

Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi Thursday said that the state intends filing an appeal against a High Court judge ruling that consensual sex between people in same-sex unions should not be criminalised as the court partly struck down the sodomy laws in Trinidad and Tobago.

Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

In the present report, the Independent Expert examines the process of abandoning the classification of certain forms of gender as a pathology and the full scope of the duty of the State to respect and promote respect of gender recognition as a component of identity. He also highlights some effective measures to ensure respect of gender identity and provides guidance to States on how to address violence and discrimination based on gender identity.

UK: Court invalidates Gilead's Truvada patent extension, allowing PrEP generics

Activists in the U.S. are asking authorities to break Gilead’s patents on Truvada in an effort to help end the HIV epidemic. Now, a court in the U.K. has done just that, potentially allowing for widespread use of generics as a pre-exposure prophylaxis.