HIV alarm Uganda as anti-gay law forc LGBT 'lockdown' | Rters

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

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

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.

And now thori are viewg jt providg lubrints as promotn of homosexualy, so our suppli of those have gone down.

KAMPALA

There’s a false narrative that clics like ours promote homosexualy and human traffickg. 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.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA

“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”. 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”. Homosexualy, said Cabre Miibi (the unsellor referred by Nsambya Hospal) is often ed by “unrolved petn” between a child and a same-sex parent for the attentn of an oppose-sex parent durg their velopment’s “phallic stage”. By CountryBy Year FoundA list of LGBT anizatns and groups Mori UgandaSexual Mori Uganda [SM-UG] is a non-prof, non-ernmental anisatn that works towards achievg full legal and social equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual…The Youth Empowerment Foundatn-TYEFThe youth Empowerment Foundatn (TYEF) is a Non- Governmental Organizatn that was formed 2009, and not yet registered.

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

KAMPALA, June 8 (Rters) - The HIV/AIDS treatment centre Kampala is almost empty, days after Uganda enacted one of the most dranian anti-gay laws on ual daily flux of around 50 patients has all but dried up, say staff. "Unr the bill, which Print Yoweri Meveni signed to law last week, gay sex is punishable by life prison while "aggravated homosexualy" - which clus transmtg HIV - is punishable by this year, the Kampala clic had been a bean of succs for the fight agast HIV Uganda, where 1. Nohels, the trend of HIV patients stayg away om treatment centr is beg mirrored on a natnal level, acrdg to Mary Bman, untry director for the US Print's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which funds the Kampala clic and about 80 other drop- centr across said fear had creasgly been terrg people om g for treatment ever sce the anti-gay bill was troduced parliament March.

REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa Acquire Licensg Rights"I felt so sad when the law was enacted bee we fear PEPFAR will cut off fundg for the ee servic we have been receivg, " said the 27-year-old gay man, who asked not to be intified for fear of beg targeted by thori. REPORTING GAY ACTIVITYLillian Mworeko, the East Ain regnal ordator for the Internatnal Communy of Women livg wh HIV/AIDS, said some provirs feared that offerg medil servic to LGBTQ patients uld be classed as "promotg" homosexualy, an offence punishable by 20 years prison unr the new Ugandan bill toughened up an existg Brish lonial-era law, unr which gay sex was already illegal.

Proponents say the new legislatn is need to unter what they allege are efforts by LGBTQ Ugandans to rec children to amend versn signed by Meveni didn't crimalise merely intifyg as LGBTQ - as a prev versn did - and revised a measure that required people to report gay activy to only oblige reportg when a child was the Kampala clic, n by lol chary Icebreakers Uganda, medil officer Tendo said he unrstood the fears of LGBTQ people Uganda who often endured paful liv, featurg rejectn by their fai and arrts. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728).