Scotland offers asylum to Uganda’s persecuted gays

Despite threats of a backlash and international condemnation, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni still went on to sign one of Africa’s, and the world’s, most punishing anti-gay laws to date. Citing his sickness with “homosexuals exhibiting themselves,” Museveni’s law, at its most severe, will sentence members of the LGBT community to life in prison for certain…

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President Obama signs HIV Organ Policy Equity act into law

Today, President Barack Obama signed the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act into law. Authored by Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, the HOPE Act creates a science-based path for medical research to proceed on the feasibility, effectiveness and safety of organ transplants between HIV-positive patients. The HOPE Act replaces an outdated policy banning HIV-positive organs from…

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