(WB) An advocacy group in Botswana is working with medical providers to improve transgender and intersex people’s access to health care.

A lesbian teen is dead after being raped and strangled by a 24-year-old man in South Africa. Gay Star News reports that 18-year-old Gift Makau was found dead in Ventersdorp on Friday, August 15. She had been raped and stranged with a wire and shoelace, and found with a running hose forced into her mouth.