[VIH/SIDA]
China: Fundação Gates vai ampliar programa contra a sida
A fundação Bill e Melinda Gates estenderá em 2009 o programa de prevenção da Sida na China a Tchangsha, capital da província de Hunan (centro), informou hoje o Ministério da Saúde Pública chinês, associado ao projecto.

[Portugal]
Lisboa: Travestis explorados

A PSP anunciou ontem a detenção de dois homens que exploravam travestis em Lisboa. O método consistia em angariar clientes através de anúncios e depois atribuir ruas aos travestis que, por sua vez, tinham de lhes pagar para se poderem prostituir. Os líderes desta actividade ganhavam entre 1500 a 5000 euros/mês.

[España]
Homosexuales protestan contra la absolución del asesino de una pareja gay
Cerca de un centenar del miembros del Colectivo de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales de Madrid (COGAM) se han concentrado en la Puerta del Sol para protestar contra la sentencia "disparatada" de un tribunal de Vigo que absolvió a Jacobo Piñeiro del asesinato de una pareja gay.(Foto Vigo)

[Ireland]
Brave farmer's 20-year battle to finally be accepted as a woman

A 20-year battle by a farmer to become recognised and treated as awoman has highlighted the huge difficulties facing people who sufferfrom Gender Identity Disorder (GID) in Ireland.

Sarah Louise Stafford (40) was born male, near the village ofChurchill in rural Donegal, but has been diagnosed as suffering fromGID, a recognised medical condition in which a person feels they aretrapped within a body of the wrong sex.

[Canada]
Inmate wants public-funded sex change

An inmate of an institution for the criminally insane who insists she is a "female trapped inside a male's body" is begging for a $15,000 assessment that would qualify her for a government-funded sex change.

[TX,USA]
GEAR: Transgender Health Night

Transgender Health Night is held monthly at the Nelson-Tebedo Clinic & provides health services to any transgender individual. These services include low-cost hormone replacement therapy lab work & access to medical staff in an accepting environment.

[CO, USA]
Judge to rule on confession in Zapata killing

Following a daylong pretrial hearing Friday, Weld District Judge Marcelo Kopcow will decide next week the legal path of what could be one of Weld County’s most notable trials.

One of the most notable details will be whether the suspect’s whole confession will be allowed in court.

Allen Andrade, 32, faces first-degree murder charges for the death of Angie Zapata, 18, a transgender woman found dead in her southeast Greeley apartment on July 17.