UNAIDS Ambassador: Eliminating bans on gay sex are crucial to fighting spread of HIV
Lord Norman Fowler, who dealt with the AIDS crisis under Margaret Thatcher, says increased testing is the best way to reduce transmission of HIV.
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UNAIDS Ambassador Lord Norman Fowler – Photo: Chris McAndrew, via Wikimedia.
The new UNAIDS ambassador says that eliminating bans on same-sex relations is crucial to fighting the spread of HIV a comment sure to provoke negative reactions from leaders of countries with statutory prohibitions on homosexual sex.
Lord Norman Fowler, the former British health minister during the 1980s, who oversaw the United Kingdom’s response to the early days of the AIDS crisis, said that many people are unwilling to come forward for HIV testing in countries where homosexuality is criminalized, out of fear of being prosecuted and jailed and in some cases, even sentenced to death.
Scrapping gay sex bans key to fighting HIV, says UNAIDS ambassador
May 6, 2021 11:32 PM PHT
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Scrapping gay sex bans around the world is vital to fighting the spread of HIV because it would encourage more people to get tested, Britain s former health minister during the 1980s AIDS crisis said on Thursday, May 6.
Norman Fowler, who this month takes up an ambassadorial role at the U.N. agency UNAIDS, said many people are unwilling to come forward for HIV tests in countries that effectively criminalize homosexuality. That s going to have a vast effect upon any population, Fowler told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview.
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