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The Aversion Project was a medical torture programme in South Africa led by Aubrey Levin [1] during apartheid.The project identified gay soldiers and conscripts who used drugs in the South African Defence Forces (SADF).
Aubrey Levin (born 18 December 1938) is a South African-born Canadian psychiatrist and former Colonel in the South African Defence Force who used abusive procedures on homosexual army conscripts and conscientious objectors in an attempt to cure them of suspected same-sex attraction in apartheid era South Africa.
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Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, it was a common LDS Church practice to excommunicate individuals who identified as gay, without distinguishing between attraction and behavior. A book by former LDS Church president Spencer W. Kimball , The Miracle of Forgiveness , counseled individuals with "same-sex attraction" that they could overcome ...
AZT trials conducted on HIV-positive African subjects by U.S. physicians and the University of Zimbabwe were performed without proper informed consent. [4] The United States began testing AZT treatments in Africa in 1994, through projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
To assist in members' efforts for sexual orientation change, church leaders developed an aversion therapy program on BYU campus for gay adolescents and adults in 1959 since simply being attracted to people of the same sex was an excommunicable sin under church president Kimball.
In an independent BYU newspaper article two men describe their experience with the BYU Aversion therapy program during the early 1970s. [ 99 ] : 162 After confessing to homosexual feelings they were referred to the BYU Counseling Center where the electroshock aversion therapy took place using pornographic pictures of males and females.