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"Medical intervention for trans people, like all others, should be undertaken based on individual informed consent," writes Kyle Knight, co-interim director of Human Rights Watch's LGBT Rights Program.
The ban is supposed to go into effect on September 1.
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are struggling to get medical attention.
The results are not definitive, scientists caution.
A coalition of 117 human rights groups worldwide is denouncing not only Egypt for arresting and detaining HIV-positive men for the "habitual practice of debauchery" but also many of the detainees' doctors, who participated in the illegal crackdown.
