AIDS experts blast countries with anti-gay laws

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Campaigners at the world AIDS conference are taking aim at countries with anti-gay laws, accusing them of creating conditions that allow the spread of HIV.

Powerfully mixing concerns over human rights and health, the issue threatens to divide western donor countries where gay equality is making strides from poor beneficiary nations where anti-gay laws persist or have been newly passed, say some.

Nobel laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who co-discovered HIV and co-chairs the six-day conference, seized Sunday's opening ceremony to lay down a barrage of criticism at laws targeting minorities who bear a disproportionate share of the global pandemic.

"The cruel reality is that in every region of the world, stigma and discrimination continue to be the main barriers to effective access to health," she said.

http://news.yahoo.com/anger-homophobic-laws-flares-aids-conference-114252702.html

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1. The US religious nutcases are encouraging these anti-gay laws

The Texas GOP still wants to reinstate the Texas sodomy laws to make being a homosexual illegal. These laws are illegal in the US due to the Lawrence v. Texas case so these idiots have to go overseas

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2. To me, these superstitions should have all US taxpayer subsidies/exemptions revoked.

They help spread hate and violence against minorities, which is despicable.