KAMPALA, Jun 30 (IPS) - 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.
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- ANTI-GAY 'THERAPY' OFFERED AT UGANDA HEALTH CENTR RUN BY AID-FUND GROUPS
- NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
- HIV ALARM UGANDA AS ANTI-GAY LAW FORC LGBT 'LOCKDOWN'
- KAMPALA
- UGANDA | ANTI-GAY ‘THERAPY’ OFFERED BY US-FUND HEALTH CENTR
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA
- ATTACKS ON LGBT+ UGANDANS SEEN RISG AFTER MISTER PROPOS ATH FOR GAY SEX
- ANTI-GAY ‘THERAPY’ OFFERED AT UGANDA HEALTH CENTR RUN BY AID-FUND GROUPS
ANTI-GAY 'THERAPY' OFFERED AT UGANDA HEALTH CENTR RUN BY AID-FUND GROUPS
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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. 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.
NO, UGANDA IS NOT MAKG ILLEGAL TO BE GAY (AGA)
The HIV/AIDS treatment centre Kampala is almost empty, days after Uganda enacted one of the most dranian anti-gay laws on Earth. * gay hospital uganda *
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.
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. Cred: openDemocracyKAMPALA, Jun 30 (IPS) - 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.
HIV ALARM UGANDA AS ANTI-GAY LAW FORC LGBT 'LOCKDOWN'
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“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.
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Staff at US-fund health centr Uganda have been found allegedly offerg, or providg referrals for, anti-gay nversn therapy. * gay hospital uganda *
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” USAID aid agency – which says supports LGBTQI+ clive velopment – gave the Most At Risk Populatns Iniative (MARPI) that ns this clic a $420, 000 grant 2019, endg this September.
UGANDA | ANTI-GAY ‘THERAPY’ OFFERED BY US-FUND HEALTH CENTR
HIV/AIDS disproportnately affects gay and bisexual men around the world; however, ltle is known about this populatn sub-Saharan Ai. We nducted a rponnt-driven samplg survey of gay and bisexual men Kampala, Uganda (N = 224). Overall, 61% reported themselv as "gay" and 39% as … * gay hospital uganda *
)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’ vtigatn intified siar support for ‘anti-gay’ unsellg activi at three hospals the Uganda Catholic Medil Bure (UCMB) work.
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN KAMPALA, UGANDA
Uganda has seen a rise attacks on LGBT+ people sce a mister proposed brgg back the ath penalty for gay sex, mpaigners said on Tuday, warng anti-gay rhetoric was fuellg homophobia. * gay hospital uganda *
This work received more than $1m om USAID between 2019 and this April, though is unclear whether the specific hospals intified this vtigatn received any of this 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 ’’, one who is “between 18 and 20 years of age”. ”‘Extremely uhil’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 untri (Brazil, Ecuador and Malta) have banned the practic – which range om ‘talk therapy’ to physil ‘treatments’ cludg so-lled aversn therapy, while Germany has banned them when applied to mors.
ATTACKS ON LGBT+ UGANDANS SEEN RISG AFTER MISTER PROPOS ATH FOR GAY SEX
Several US stat have also passed bans, while the UK recently pledged to do the same 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”.
ANTI-GAY ‘THERAPY’ OFFERED AT UGANDA HEALTH CENTR RUN BY AID-FUND GROUPS
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” wore a label on his at sayg “clil psychologist” when he met our reporters. Seven years after an act of parliament ma homosexualy a crime punishable by ath, the anti-gay mpaigners of Uganda are at aga.