{"id":25066,"date":"2025-07-16T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/?post_type=publication22&#038;p=25066"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:27:59","slug":"the-hiv-legal-network-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/the-hiv-legal-network-in-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"The HIV Legal Network in the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"As a region, the Caribbean has the second-highest HIV prevalence rate in the world, after sub-Saharan Africa.<br \/>\nUNAIDS and regional and national agencies have long identified homophobia as a factor contributing to this<br \/>\nstartling statistic. The legal and social environment varies significantly across the region, as does community<br \/>\norganizing to defend and advance the human rights of LGBTQ+ people. But in many countries, and particularly the Commonwealth Caribbean, the criminalization of consensual same-sex relationships and gender non-conforming people \u2014 fueled by stigma and discrimination, which is often intensified by fundamentalist religious leaders and groups \u2014 has had a damaging effect on health and human rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Digital-The-HIV-Legal-Network-in-the-Caribbean.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/25068\/?tmstv=1775557721\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[153,160],"publication_type":[170,175],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-25066","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-lgbtq-rights","publication_topics-the-caribbean","publication_type-advocacy","publication_type-info-sheets","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/25066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/25066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25070,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/25066\/revisions\/25070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=25066"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=25066"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=25066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}