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Copyright © 2017 South Florida Gay News.com, Inc. 2 • 7.12.2017 NEWS international Photo: wikimedia.org RUSSIAN TV CHANNEL OFFERS LGBTS PLANE TICKET TO LEAVE Brittany Ferrendi hey want the gays out. take up the off er submit a medical record A Christian TV channel in Russia is proving their “perversion.” Note that being Toff ering to pay for LGBT people to get homosexual is not considered a medical out of the country forever. condition in Russia. According to LGBTQ Nation, an This off er comes after multiple reports of anchor for Tsargrad TV called the LGBT gay men being persecuted and killed in the community “perverts” and “sodomites” Russian republic of Chechnya. Germany, and wants them to leave so they can France and other countries have opened “submit to their sins.” themselves to refugees from the republic. The anchor requests that those who The United States does not take part. 7.12.2017 • 3 According to WHO, Untreatable Gonorrhea ‘Superbug’ Spreading Around Globe (Edge) According to a release by the World Health In the US, gonorrhea constitutes a public health Organization (WHO), cases of untreatable gonorrhea are emergency, with 395,216 cases identifi ed in 2015. It is the rising around the globe. In the U.S., no untreatable cases second most common reportable infectious disease in have yet been detected. America. Gonorrhea is a major cause of Pelvic Infl ammatory “The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are particularly Disease (PID), which can cause serious outcomes in women smart. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat such as infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and chronic pelvic the infection, the bacteria evolve to resist them,” said Dr pain. There is also evidence that gonorrhea infection Teodora Wi, Medical Offi cer, Human Reproduction, at facilitates the transmission of HIV infection. WHO. Federal STD funding is at a 20-year low and the U.S. “We call upon Congress to increase federal STD currently has a 20 year high for STDs rates. Last year, federal prevention funding to prevent gonorrhea and to treat those STD prevention funding was cut by $5 million to $152 infected,” says David C. Harvey, executive director of the million. President Trump’s proposed budget would cut the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD). “If we don’t budget by another $22 million. If enacted, CDC would no prevent cases now, rising STD rates will cost the health care longer be able to fund STD prevention programs in all states, system millions of dollars in treatment down the road and territories, or directly funded cities, thereby decimating potentially fail to prevent drug-resistant cases,” Harvey the nation’s ability to fi ght a raging STD epidemic and the adds. ability to fi ght drug-resistant gonorrhea in the US. campaigner Jayne Ozanne. “Conversion therapy is harmful, INTERNATIONAL dangerous and just doesn’t work.” NATIONAL The Synod also saw a welcome move to embrace hurch of England Approves Ban on Gay transgender members of the church. BBC News reports that uerto rico governor creates island’s 1st CConversion Therapy, Moves to Embrace the Church of England’s governing body voted to look into PLGBT Advisory Body Transgender Members special services for transgender people.