LGBT organisations have been excluded from an upcoming UN HIV meeting. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/ IPS.
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2 2016 (IPS) – Treatment for HIV and AIDS has increased, but key populations including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities continue to be left behind and even excluded altogether.
In a new , published ahead of the upcoming High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) found immense gains in access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) across 160 countries.
However, UNAIDS noted that HIV reduction and prevention efforts must be scaled up since many so-called key groups…