Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Men who have sex with men, sex workers groups ask: Will next U.N. political declaration on HIV and AIDS exclude most affected, least reached populations?
Antigone Barton, senior writer and editor of “Science Speaks,” discusses the 2011 U.N. declaration on eliminating HIV/AIDS, progress made since then, and the concerns of some advocates regarding the upcoming 2016 High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, including whether the new international declaration could exclude language on key populations such as men who have sex with men, transgender women, sex workers, and people who inject drugs (6/6).