Metro How Nigeria’s Anti-gay Law Derailed Anti-AIDS Effort - 76Crimes

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Nigeria’s new anti-gay law derailed the country’s effort to curb AIDS among the high-risk population of men who have sex with men, a group with an HIV infection rate of 15 percent HIV — four times that of the general population.

Antigone Barton writes in Science Speaks about the Men’s Health Network Nigeria, which was formed by the Population Council and local partners in Nigeria when the magnitude of those men’s infection rate became known. Here Barton tells what happened to the network after Nigeria’s bill prohibiting gatherings of gay people was signed into law on Jan. 7:

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