AVAC in the News

LGBT rights advocates and allies from all over the world have gathered in Bangkok this week for the 28th ILGA World Conference.

There's a growing—almost silent—market for HIV self-testing kits. It's a young market, and communities clearly need guidance. But health professionals say self-testing may help us end the AIDS epidemic.

AVAC Program Manager Angelo Kaggwa-Katumba is named among Uganda’s Top 40 men under 40 in a special edition of Sunday Vision, a publication of the Ugandan media giant New Vision. The Top 40 singles out 40 men and 40 women under the age of 40 for their leadership as role models for the next generation of Ugandans. Kaggwa-Katumba’s work advocating for rights-based HIV prevention and helping to strengthen partnerships across civil society in Africa was applauded by the publishers.

We are writing in response to a commentary by Dr Ronald Goldman titled, “Recommendation of circumcision for HIV prevention is biased” that appeared in the 2 November 2016 edition of The Namibian...Dr Goldman's commentary has many unsubstantiated and incorrect claims and we want to address some of them here and why we believe VMMC is an important part of Namibia's response to HIV.