Sexual minorities and HIV : Germany's response to the issue through development cooperation / [ed. by the BMZ Division for health; population policy]

In many societies, people whose sexual orientation or gender identity does not conform to majority norms, in other words lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual and intersex people (LGBTI), face stigma, discrimination, criminalisation and persecution. Human rights are at the heart of German development policy and are a guiding principle in our cooperation with partner countries and in international negotiations. Realisation of LGBTI human rights has therefore been explicitly enshrined in the human rights strategy of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). That means that the BMZ is committed to making specific efforts to support the LGBTI community. It does so mainly by helping civil society groups to defend their own interests in areas including healthcare.