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Newindpress - Chennai, India, February 5, 2007 Boys are being increasingly targeted and victimized in our society. It may be because homosexuality is finally coming out of the closet. There is a perpetuated misconception that sex with a virgin male or female cures sexually transmitted disease (STD) and AIDS.

Reuters AlertNet - London, UK, January 30, 2007 According to UNAIDS, the estimated level of infection among adults in Cambodia has dropped from a high of 3 percent in 1997 to 1.6 percent in 2006, which can be partly attributed to increasing HIV mortality as those infected during the period of peak HIV incidence move into AIDS.

AfterEllen.com - USA, January 30, 2007 For diasporic South Asian lesbians, the opportunity to see themselves positively reflected in cinema has increased significantly within the last few years, paralleling developments in films about other minorities that increasingly address issues beyond coming-out.

Daily Times - Lahore, Pakistan Although some estimates suggest that every year 1 to 2 million women, men and children are trafficked worldwide, around 225,000 of them are from South Asia (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Maldives, and Bhutan).

Times of India - New Delhi, India, January 28, 2007 An emerging sense of permissiveness appears to have jolted orthodox Chinese societ even as it grapples with a new-found prosperity and sense of liberation in the young.