Center for Global Health Policy and Politics

Tag: LGBTQ+

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Global Legal Environment for LGBTQ+ Sexuality and Public Health

In 2023 the Supreme Court of Mauritius cited human rights and public health arguments to strike down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual same-sex sex. The parliament of…

April 21, 2025

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Terms and Definitions for Principles and Rights: Protecting and Advancing Rights-Affirming and Evidence-Based Language in International Agreements

Introduction The HIV Language Compendium is a curated compilation of internationally agreed upon language that provides precedents for the use, proper interpretation and…

January 24, 2024

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Trends in Criminalizing Same-Sex Sex: Where Do Sub-Saharan African Countries Stand?

Matthew M. Kavanagh, Varsha Srivatsan, Amanda Banda, Agrata Sharma, Sharonann Lynch, Arjun Narayan, Abigail Rosenbaum As of this year, two-thirds of the…

December 4, 2023

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Mapping Anti-Discrimination Protections for Sexuality, Gender Identity, and HIV Status in Sub-Saharan Africa

Amanda Banda, Varsha Srivatsan, Yu-Wei Chen, Agrata Sharma, Vishakh Unnikrishnan, Sharonann Lynch, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Abigail Rosenbaum,…

December 4, 2023

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The Center for Global Health Policy & Politics at ICASA 2023

Agrata Sharma, Varsha Srivatsan, Yu-Wei Chen, Vishakh Unnikrishnan, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Sharonann Lynch, Alice Kayongo, Alana Sharp, …

December 4, 2023

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Tackling Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws and Tackling Pandemics in Uganda

July 19, 2023

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Associations between punitive policies and legal barriers to consensual same-sex sexual acts and HIV among gay men and other men who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry, respondent-driven sampling survey

January 6, 2023