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UNAIDS Concerned Over Greece HIV Sex Worker Crackdown

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has expressed its concern over recent actions by Greek authorities involving the arrest, detention, mandatory HIV testing, publication of photographs and personal details, and pressing of criminal charges against at least 12 sex workers, according to a UNAIDS statement. In addition to initiating criminal prosecution against HIV-positive sex workers for intentional gross bodily harm, Greece has raised the concerns of UNAIDS because of immigration legislation adopted in April that appears to provide for automatic detention of migrants and asylum-seekers who have an infectious disease, or who belong to a group at high risk of infection, without consideration of whether they pose an actual risk.

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Anna Arrowsmith

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Funding for conferences

But don't the conferences pay for your travel and hotel if you are selected to present? I thought they did... We are looking at raising funds for different projects but exactly what will be covered has yet to be decided as there are so many deserving causes. As soon as anything is decided it will appear in the news and forum feeds.

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