Australia: Growth in positive attitudes towards PrEP among Australian gay and bisexual men

Willingness to consider using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) increased between 2011 and 2017 among gay and bisexual men in Australia, while concerns about using it decreased, according to research published in AIDS and Behavior. Community support for PrEP users remained solid.

India: Transgender bill seeks to "police, criminalize" a highly vulnerable community: PUDR

India’s well-known civil rights organization, People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), characterizing the transgender bill – currently pending before Parliament – “draconian”, has said that it “violates” transpersons’ freedom of association in intimate and personal relations by refusing to “recognize ‘families of choice’ among hijras as self-determined arrangements of care.”