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#HIVMedications: "We are not going to lose the rights we have built over more than 30 years"

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes January 27, 2018

More than 400 people, convened by the National Front for the Health of People with HIV, gathered at 2:00 PM in front of the Ministry of Health for an open assembly to analyze the situation following last week's reports of a shortage of medications for HIV patients in several Argentine provinces. On Thursday, the government issued a statement declaring the problems with the delivery of supplies resolved and announcing that deliveries would return to normal next week.

#HIV #MyBitchAndMe: We urgently need our medication

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes January 25, 2018

By Lucas Gutiérrez and Jon Amarillo

#HIV Organizations will mobilize in front of the Ministry of Health due to drug shortages

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes January 22, 2018

The National Front for the Health of People with HIV—comprised of more than 50 organizations from across the country—is on alert and has called for an open assembly this Friday, January 26, at 2:00 p.m. in front of the National Ministry of Health (Av. 9 de Julio and Moreno) to demand better healthcare and the availability of all treatments for people living with HIV. This is the second time in just over a year that this situation has arisen.

#LivingWithHIV: My Child and I #8 The Dangers of Activism

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes January 18, 2018

Script: Lucas Gutiérrez Drawings: Jon Amarillo

#LivingWithHIV Bicho and I #7 Superpowers for an X-Men cover

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes January 11, 2018

In the duo's most recent adventure, the comic strip that brutally tells what it's like to live with HIV mutated into the cover of an X-Men comic.

#LivingWithHIV Bicho and I #6 "Happy New Year!"

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes January 4, 2018

In this, the sixth installment, we welcome 2018 in Bicho and I mode. With a script by Lucas Fauno Gutiérrez and illustrations by Jon Amarillo, the comic tells what it's like to live with HIV.

#HateCrimes2017 Peru: main violence against LGBTIQ+, from the State

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes December 31, 2017

By Esteban Marchand, from Lima. In Peru, there are no official statistics on hate crimes against LGBTIQ+ people. What exists are partial records, compiled through the initiative of LGBTQ+ groups. This year in Peru, the main violence against LGBTIQ+ people has been perpetrated by state institutions. The group…

#HateCrimes2017 Drastic increase in street attacks in Argentina

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes December 30, 2017

This occurs within a political and social context where violence against the LGBTI community has noticeably increased. According to the Observatory of Hate Crimes against the LGBT community of the Ombudsman's Office of the City of Buenos Aires and FALGBT, 61 cases of violence were reported in 2017…

#HateCrimes2017 Justice, an outstanding debt for LGBT victims in Chile

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes December 29, 2017

By Airam Fernández, from Santiago. Photos: Presentes Archive/Josean Rivera. In Chile, the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh) is the only organization that produces an annual report on the human rights situation focusing on sexual and gender diversity in the country. It has done so since 2002. The study, which corresponds to…

#HateCrimes2017: More than 400 reports of violence against LGBT people in Paraguay

UncategorizedBy Agencia Presentes December 28, 2017

This past year was a particularly violent one for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transvestite people in Paraguay. While there are no official records of cases of discrimination, assault, and murder—and the country lacks anti-discrimination legislation or laws aggravating circumstances for gender-based violence—LGBT civil society organizations keep their own tallies, which exceeded 400 reports in 2017.