With phone counselling and emergency deliveries of HIV drugs, LGBT+ groups across the Middle East are stepping up support for gay and transgender people trapped with abusive families or struggling with isolation under coronavirus lockdowns. With more than 40 confirmed coronavirus cases in the occupied
AMMAN, March 18 - With phone counselling and emergency deliveries of HIV drugs, LGBT+ groups across the Middle East are stepping up support for gay and transgender people trapped with abusive families or struggling with isolation under coronavirus lockdowns.
"Staying at home can eliminate their access to private spaces and increase bullying," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. As businesses have been forced to close, money worries are also on the rise for LGBT+ people who live alone - often because they have been rejected by their families - Al Khatib added.
Story continuesThe advocacy group Proud Lebanon has organised a task force of volunteers to deliver medication to people with HIV who cannot or will not leave their homes. Remote support has been ramped up in Tunisia, which had its first openly gay presidential candidate last year, although he was later forced to flee the north African country after death threats from Islamist elements.
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