- Title
- Diversity in Human Sexuality: Implications for Policy in Africa
- Creator
- Dugmore, Harry
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453379
- Identifier
- vital:75249
- Identifier
- ISBN
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.17159/assaf/0022
- Description
- Although two-thirds of countries in the world no longer outlaw lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) relationships, same-sex relationships are still illegal in 76 countries. In the recent past, new laws have been passed in Russia, India, Nigeria, Burundi, Cameroon and Uganda and are being contemplated in other countries to further prohibit same-sex relationships or the so-called ‘promotion of homosexuality’. There is evidence that such new laws precipitate negative consequences not just for LGBTI persons and communities, but also for societies as a whole, including the rapid reversal of key public health gains, particularly in terms of HIV and AIDS and other sexual health programmes, increases in levels of social violence, some evidence of reduced economic growth, and the diversion of attention from sexual and other violence against women and children.
- Format
- 94 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Dugmore, H. 2015. Diversity in Human Sexuality: Implications for Policy in Africa
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Statement (https://www.assaf.org.za/about-assaf/)
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