{"id":11875,"date":"2011-07-05T18:13:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2011-07-05T18:13:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:43:26","slug":"gay-community-celebs-unaids-slam-azads-msm-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/gay-community-celebs-unaids-slam-azads-msm-remark","title":{"rendered":"Gay community, celebs, UNAIDS slam Azad&#8217;s MSM remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gays2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11876\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/gay-community-celebs-unaids-slam-azads-msm-remark\/gays-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/gays2.jpg?fit=236%2C213&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"236,213\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gays2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/gays2.jpg?fit=236%2C213&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11876\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gays2.jpg?resize=236%2C213&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/gays2.jpg?w=236&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/gays2.jpg?resize=150%2C135&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>Homosexuality is not a disease and there is no place for discrimination on the basis of a person\u2019s sexual orientation, UNAIDS emphasised Tuesday, a day after Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said men having sex with men (MSM) is a \u201cdisease\u201d and \u201cunnatural\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia\u2019s rich tradition of inclusivity and social justice must include men who have sex with men and transgender people,\u201d Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS executive director, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no place for stigma and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Consistent with WHO\u2019s disease classification, UNAIDS does not regard homosexuality as a disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Azad\u2019s comments had come at the National Convention of Parliamentarians on HIV\/AIDS Monday. The two-day convention saw the participation of India\u2019s National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and UNAIDS, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Azad said: \u201cThe disease of MSM is unnatural and not good for India. We are not able to identify where it is happening as it is less reported also.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a challenge because in cases of female sex workers we can identify the community and reach out to them. But in case of MSM, it is becoming difficult,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sidibe, however, spoke out strongly against discrimination of people on the basis of sexual orientation.\u201cIndia\u2019s successful AIDS response has been possible due to the strong participation of communities of men who have sex with men, sex workers, people who inject drugs and transgender people backed by a strong and progressive National AIDS policy,\u201d Sidibe said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister\u2019s remarks also attracted flak from the gay community and activists working on the issue.Mohnish Malhotra, who has long been involved in the fight for gay rights, said: \u201cIt\u2019s shocking that such a comment was made by the country\u2019s health minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the UN passed a resolution saying that the LGBT community has equal rights as anyone else and cannot be discriminated on the basis of their sexual orientation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to NACO, there are more than 400,000 men who have sex with men in India. HIV prevalence in this population is about 7.3 percent compared to a national adult HIV prevalence of 0.31 percent. India has over 2.5 million HIV positive people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homosexuality is not a disease and there is no place for discrimination on the basis of a person\u2019s sexual orientation, UNAIDS emphasised Tuesday, a day after Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said men having sex with men (MSM) is a \u201cdisease\u201d and \u201cunnatural\u201d. \u201cIndia\u2019s rich tradition of inclusivity and social justice must include men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89],"tags":[4186,4185,4188,4189,4187,4177],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment-news","tag-celebs","tag-gay-community","tag-health-minister-ghulam-nabi-azad","tag-men-having-sex-with-men","tag-msm-remark","tag-unaids"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gay community, celebs, UNAIDS slam Azad&#039;s MSM remark<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Homosexuality is not a disease and there is no place for discrimination on the basis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/gay-community-celebs-unaids-slam-azads-msm-remark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gay community, celebs, UNAIDS slam Azad&#039;s MSM remark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Homosexuality is not a disease and there is no place for discrimination on the basis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/gay-community-celebs-unaids-slam-azads-msm-remark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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