Global HIV response found to neglect gay and bisexual men, trans women
Oct 21 2020 03:04 AMLONDON - Funding to fight HIV among gay and bisexual men and transgender women is a fraction of what it should be, researchers said on Tuesday, with advocates blaming stigma for the shortfall.Gay and bisexual men account for about one in five new HIV infections, but they were only allocated 1 percent of the $57 billion in global donor funding to treat the virus and combat its spread between 2016 and 2018, Dutch HIV charity Aidsfonds found.And while trans people represented about 1 percent of new global HIV infections in 2018, programs targeting them received just 0.06% of the total pool - most of which is channeled to the general population in 135 lower- and middle-income countries.The fight against HIV/AIDS could be set.
