Anti-Gay 'Therapy' Offered at Uganda Health Centr Run by Aid-Fund Groups — Global Issu

Contents:

• UGANDA | ANTI-GAY ‘THERAPY’ OFFERED BY US-FUND HEALTH CENTR
• HIV ALARM UGANDA AS ANTI-GAY LAW FORC LGBT 'LOCKDOWN'
• KAMPALA
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA
• NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
• ANTI-GAY 'THERAPY' OFFERED AT UGANDA HEALTH CENTR RUN BY AID-FUND GROUPS

UGANDA | ANTI-GAY ‘THERAPY’ OFFERED BY US-FUND HEALTH CENTR

In the six weeks sce Uganda’s print signed the untry’s Anti-Homosexualy Act (AHA) to law, the LGBTQ muny and s supporters Kampala, Uganda’s pal and largt cy, have faced latg harassment and secury threats.

HIV ALARM UGANDA AS ANTI-GAY LAW FORC LGBT 'LOCKDOWN'

The regulatn has led to more than 300 human rights vlatns agast people spected of beg gay Uganda, acrdg to reportg om CNN.

Although gay men and their sexual works prise ls than a third of new HIV s the untry, ntag the fectn’s spread among men, women, and children pends on steady accs to HIV treatment and preventn. He was told the bure had rmatn on the group’s volvement immoral acts and the recment of mors for homosexual behavr. It’s very hard to provi rmatn that clus sexual health for men who have sex wh men or for LGBTQ persons, bee now that is also termed as promotn of homosexualy.

KAMPALA

And now thori are viewg jt providg lubrints as promotn of homosexualy, so our suppli of those have gone down. There’s a false narrative that clics like ours promote homosexualy and human traffickg.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA

I’ve heard some Ugandan activists suggt foreigners should be kd of quiet about their disagreement wh this law to avoid playg to the ia that Uganda is vg to Wtern prsure if adopts a more open stance toward homosexualy. At Mulago, Uganda’s biggt public hospal, a receptnist at an HIV clic for margalised and ‘most at risk’ populatns, cludg LGBT people, said that an unrver reporter’s 17-year-old gay brother uld “qu” his same-sex attractn.

“Whoever wants to qu homosexualy, we nnect them, ” she said – to external unsellors, who have clud Pastor Solomon Male, a lolly known anti-gay mpaigner.

She also gave our unrver reporter the phone number of a man who “was once a patient here” and “was once a homosexual but isn’t anymore”. It is jt one of several exampl of health centr Uganda where our unrver reporters ught staff providg, or providg referrals for, ntroversial anti-gay ‘therapi’. Our vtigatn intified siar support for ‘anti-gay’ unsellg activi at three hospals the Uganda Catholic Medil Bure (UCMB) work.

NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)

At one of the hospals – Nsambya, Uganda’s biggt private health facily – staff referred our reporters to the private office of Cabre Miibi, on the outskirts of Kampala, who mixed Frdian theori, biblil quot and anti-gay sults his diagnosis.

Miibi, who is also a staff unsellor at Nsambya, stated that sex whout procreatn “be evil” – before remendg what he lled “exposure therapy”, tellg our unrver reporter to “get a hoemaid” that her supposedly gay teenage brother n “get attracted [to]’’, one who is “between 18 and 20 years of age”.

ANTI-GAY 'THERAPY' OFFERED AT UGANDA HEALTH CENTR RUN BY AID-FUND GROUPS

Globally, more than 65 associatns of doctors, psychologists or unsellors have nmned ‘nversn therapy’ practic, acrdg to a 2020 report by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) rights group. Anal sex is illegal Uganda, and homosexualy is heavily stigmatised. He claimed that homosexualy is ed by factors rangg om peer prsure to the ter, and also said that n be “changed”.