HIV rates in Indonesia five times higher following anti-LGBTQ crackdown.

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The crackdown on Indonesia’s LGBTQ community in recent years is fueling skyrocketing HIV rates in the world’s largest Muslim democracy.

Between the years of 2007 and 2015, data from Human Rights Watch shows that the rate of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSMs) has shot up from five percent to 25 percent—a fivefold increase…