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Latin American activists say inaction on monkeypox will ‘condemn people to suffer'

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A network of gay rights activists believes the region's governments are underreporting the extent of the outbreak, in part due to discrimination against men who have sex with men.

MEXICO CITY — Gay rights activists from across Latin America have called for the region’s governments to take firm steps to prevent the spread of monkeypox, saying a lack of will to provide vaccines and diagnose cases is hurting the region’s gay and bisexual men.

“The worst thing would be to decide that this will be controlled through herd immunity,” the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s director, Dr. Jorge Saavedra, told Reuters. “The lesions are very painful; and you can’t just condemn people to suffer.

Grassroots clinics for people living with HIV, who risk suffering much more severe effects of monkeypox, have meanwhile been flooded with patients, they said.

 

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