Kenya's First Gay Health Clic Provis Care Whout the Judgment

Contents:

• KENYA'S FIRST GAY HEALTH CLIC PROVIS CARE WHOUT THE JUDGMENT
• THE GAY MEN PROJECT
• NAIROBI’S VERY OWN GAY CLIC WH A SURPRISING NUMBER OF PATIENTS
• KENYA'S FIRST GAY CLIC

KENYA'S FIRST GAY HEALTH CLIC PROVIS CARE WHOUT THE JUDGMENT

Ishtar also has the distctn of beg the first health re clic Kenya n by gay men that serv a populatn primarily of gay men.

”Njane saw a need for a clic where gay and queer men Nairobi uld e for servic whout the fear of judgment, and 2014 after receivg fundg, Njane was able to turn Ishtar to the type of clic that he wanted to be.

THE GAY MEN PROJECT

Staffed by gay men and members of the muny, Ishtar provis a host of preventive servic, cludg health tn, HIV unselg and ttg, screeng and treatment for sexually transmted fectns, and advice and open fom discsns. ”Njane shared the story of a gay Ugandan man who me to the clic after beg sick for more than a year. Specifilly, the anizatn is tryg to strategize the bt way to follow up wh members to ensure that when a member is sent to a referral that treatment is ed Njane ns the health clic for gay Tong“We have been able to reach 4, 200 members sce we started 2005.

photo by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev Tongphoto by Kev TongBrian, his own words: “In a few words (beg gay) is liberatg, beg my own self, spirg,.

Challeng, livg wh limed means, livg society largely homophobic and nservative, low self-teem which perpetually broke my spir. (The gay muny Nairobi is) a muny of diverse and brilliant men and women wh a big, lovg and strong heart, achievg succs agast all odds.

NAIROBI’S VERY OWN GAY CLIC WH A SURPRISING NUMBER OF PATIENTS

I n say that is is unlike five years ago, where you would not fd an exclively openly gay clic. It ed to be hard before, but is still not easy bee when you have a stand alone clic people fear that you might also out them–if they’re found attendg the clic, people will know they are gay. (Wh) the penal you n be arrted if you are assumed gay.

And (one) might be discrimated on health, or gog to school–we have seen people kicked out of their ho by landowners or neighbors thkg that (you are gay).

They don’t even have evince, they jt assume that you might be gay.

KENYA'S FIRST GAY CLIC

(People thk) You have traveled out of the untry, that is why you have brought (beg gay) to this untry. As we all know, South Ai at least (beg gay) is legal there, but we thought once South Ai legalized other untri would start replitg that.

We found out they wanted even stronger laws that will crimalize homosexual acts, so ’s really difficult.

So when we start talkg about health issu, people know that if affects gay people might also affect the heterosexual muny. The biggt health issue for gay men is if you are sick as related to how you have sex to another man, there is a lot of stigma wh the health re provirs. So we are tryg to bridge the gap and tryg to help that scenar and tryg to e up wh health promotn that says (gay men) are even more vulnerable, bee we don’t see that today.