{"id":229099,"date":"2019-07-23T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=229099"},"modified":"2019-07-23T10:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:55:52","slug":"hiv-aids-legal-network-official-says-anti-lgbt-laws-drive-hiv-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/hiv-aids-legal-network-official-says-anti-lgbt-laws-drive-hiv-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV\/AIDS Legal Network official says anti LGBT laws drive HIV epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_229103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229103\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-229103\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maurice-Tomlinson-642x493.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maurice-Tomlinson-642x493.jpeg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maurice-Tomlinson-300x230.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maurice-Tomlinson-768x589.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Maurice-Tomlinson.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-229103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice Tomlinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior Policy Analyst and Legal Advisor in the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, Maurice Tomlinson has said that a few agencies have identified that laws such as section 14 and 16 of the Sexual Offences Act drives the HIV epidemic, because they force members of the\u00a0Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender\u00a0(LGBT) community away from HIV prevention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 14 of the Act is a sweeping law criminalizing gross indecency, while section 16 criminalizes buggery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUNAIDS and other agencies including PANCAP [Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV\/AIDS] have identified that Laws such as section 14 and 16 of the sexual offenses act drives the HIV epidemic because they force members of the LGBT community away from effective HIV prevention, treatment and care intervention,\u201d Tomlinson said during a recent news conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tomlinson continued, \u201cSo one effect of that, for example is that men who have sex with men in Dominica have a disproportionately higher HIV prevalence rate, nearly 26 percent than the general population because they are unable to freely access prevention, treatment and care support intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said the challenge that the group has taken up is being brought by a Dominican, \u201cand we are very proud to support this claim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tomlinson reiterated the claimant&#8217;s request that his identity be suppressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo we are applying for a gag order and this is because the very small society of Dominica he feels will impede his ability to move about freely without any kind of interference while this case is working its way through the court,\u201d Tomlinson stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Policy Analyst and Legal Advisor in the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, Maurice Tomlinson has said that a few agencies have identified that laws such as section 14 and 16 of the Sexual Offences Act drives the HIV epidemic, because&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":229103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-court-law","category-general","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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