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Un grupo de trabajo internacional ha llenado un vacío de programación mundial con el lanzamiento de una herramienta de toma de decisiones ética probado y validado para su uso en las organizaciones basadas en la comunidad del VIH. La herramienta, llamada ' decisiones difíciles ', es el resultado de un riguroso proceso de tres años, y está diseñado para un empleado o compañero trabajador de apoyo para utilizar cuando se enfrentan a un dilema ético.

Un groupe de travail international a comblé une lacune de programmation globale avec la sortie d'un outil de prise de décision éthique testé et validé pour utilisation dans les organisations communautaires liés au VIH. L'outil, appelé 'décisions difficiles,' est le résultat d' un processus rigoureux de trois ans, et est conçu pour un travailleur de soutien employé ou pairs à utiliser lorsqu'ils sont confrontés à un dilemme éthique.

An international working group has filled a global programming gap with the release of a tested and validated ethical decision-making tool for use in community-based HIV organizations. The tool, called ‘Difficult Decisions’, is the result of a rigorous three-year process, and is designed for an employee or peer support worker to use when faced with an ethical dilemma.

Международный рабочая группа заполнено глобального программирования разрыв с выпуском испытана и утверждена этического инструмент принятия решений для использования в организациях ВИЧ на уровне общин. Инструмент , называемый "Трудные решения," является результатом тщательного процесса три года, а предназначен для сотрудников или коллег работника поддержки использования, когда сталкиваются с этической дилеммой.

These slides are a compilation of the epidemiology data and graphics contained in the Gap Report.

This toolkit, written by HIV and training for trainers, provides ways to teach effective advocacy skills to program managers, program staff and the community. Furthermore, this toolkit will assist in advocacy planning while giving a framework to increase the effectiveness of advocacy through planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

This English translation of Argentina’s gender identity law was approved by the Senate of Argentina on May 8, 2012. Among the 15 discrete Articles in the law is Article 1, which states that all persons have the right to:
- the recognition of their gender identity;
- the free development of their person according to their gender identity; and
- be treated according to their gender identity and, particularly, to be identified in that way in the documents proving their identity in terms of the first name/s, image and sex recorded there.

This manual is a revision of Asking the Right Questions: Talking about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity during Assessment for Drug and Alcohol Concerns. The authors have expanded on the earlier version to include mental health issues in the assessment questions. Substance use and mental health concerns may be related to sexual orientation and/or gender identity issues, particularly those issues relating to societal oppression—to provide effective treatment, therapists, and counsellors must know about these issues.

This 2008 report from Ontario's Gay/Bisexual/Queer Trans Men's Working Group and partners describes the results of the study, Getting Primed: Informing HIV Prevention with Gay, bi, Queer Trans men in Ontario.The study resulted from the work of Gay, Bi, Queer, Trans Men's Working Group of the Ontario Gay Men's HIV Prevention Strategy, working in collaboration iwth the AIDS Committee of Toronto and other civil society groups.

This technical brief is designed for people who are planning to respond to the needs of transgender people for the very first time. The audience may include transgender community members; staff of donor agencies; health workers; academics including researchers and staff of training schools for doctors, nurses, counsellors and other health workers; carers; policy-makers; nongovernmental organization (NGO) and communitybased organization activists; lawyers; school teachers and administrators; and staff of police, military, immigration and other authorities.

Published in 2011 by the United Nations Development Programme, Lost in Transition: Transgender People, Rights and HIV Vulnerability in the Asia-Pacific Region aims to provide a research and strategic information framework.

This guide, produced in 2008 by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, offers practical ideas for how LGBT organizations can apply practical steps to provide a more welcoming environment for transgender people. It addresses challenges and opportunities that present themselves and is specifically intended for LGBT groups and organizations that want to be more inclusive of the transgender community.

Produced by ISEAN-Hivos Program (IHP), RAMPA is the name given to this collection of stories of significant change observed by community participants in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Phillippines over two years since the beginning of IHP in 2011. The stories come frommembers of CBOs in these countries, and RAMPA shows the vulnerability and strengths of individuals in communities of sexual and gender minorities who are most-at-risk of HIV.

The 2012 report follows the passing of a 2009 law by the Delhi High Court that decriminalized private consensual sex between adults. The report highlights how transphobia has permeated different structures of Indian society, family, and institutions, robbing transgenders of their human dignity. It documents the number of murders and extra-judicial killings of transgender women human rights defenders in Latin America, whose deaths remain uninvestigated by government agencies.

This journal article was published in 2012 in the SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, reviews an almost total lack of research focusing on transgender populations in Africa, which the authors conclude points to an important overlooked need. High HIV prevalence and levels of HIV risk among transgender populations globally suggest that there is likely to be a similar situation in African transgender populations, which would necessitate the development and implementation of HIV programmes specific to transgender needs.