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GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISIS
The Substance Abe and Mental Health Servic Admistratn (SAMHSA) today released a new data report Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Behavral Health: Rults om the 2021 and 2022 Natnal Surveys on Dg Use and Health (PDF | 2.1 MB), ditg that lbian, gay, and bisexual adults are more likely than straight adults to e substanc, experience mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos, and experience ser thoughts of suici. * gay health crisis *
By NEELA GHOSHAL | Uganda’s Anti-Homosexualy Act (AHA), enacted on May 30 by Print Yoweri Meveni, enshr discrimatn Ugandan law. The AHA clus the ath sentence for some nsensual same-sex acts, prohibs anizatns om “normalizg” sexual diversy through clive programmg and requir everyone Uganda, cludg health workers, to report people who might be lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer (LGBTQ) to the police. ” Bee the law, the Anti-Homosexualy Act, 2023, stat that anyone who has rmatn that a person has mted or tends to m an offense “shall report the matter to the police for appropriate actn, ” health provirs are still required by law to turn LGBTQ patients.
On June 7, durg his State of the Natn addrs, Print Yoweri Meveni reerated the claims the health circular: “Therefore, those who say that the homosexuals will be arrted if they go for medil re, etc., are wrong. The law now says that a homosexual will not be crimalized for merely beg so if he/she keeps the beg to onelf. Human Rights Council June, when qutned about the Anti-Homosexualy Act and the human rights vlatns prcrib, the Deputy Permanent Reprentative of Uganda to the U.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS
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Office Geneva, Arthur Kafeero, claimed that the act was a rponse to “a wispread mpaign to promote homosexualy amongst children schools was disvered” and that “s methods and ntent too difficult and graphic to expla. The statements make clear that the ernment of Uganda is not an hont broker s engagement wh the ternatnal muny around the Anti-Homosexualy Act. The Anti-Homosexualy Act is discrimatory on face value; worse, seeks to erase the existence of queer Ugandans.
In July 2014, five months after the enactment of the prev Anti-Homosexualy Act, Uganda’s Mistry of Foreign Affairs issued a siar statement tend to appease donors. While not specific to health, asserted that the AHA was “misterpreted” by velopment partners, that only tend to prevent the “open promotn of homosexualy, pecially among children and vulnerable groups”; that “no activi of dividuals, groups, pani or anizatns” would be affected by the AHA; and that the ernment was mted to the provisn of servic to all Uganda, whout discrimatn.
I was part of a Human Rights Watch and Amnty Internatnal team that vtigated vlence and discrimatn the wake of the Anti-Homosexualy Act. • June 10: Followg the arrt of two gay men his area, the client, who is a [key populatns] ordator at a ernment health facily, was threatened wh vlence by their lleagu at work and people the muny, who said he was rponsible for the actns of the two who had been arrted bee he was always the one supportg them and givg them treatment. The te impact of the Anti-Homosexualy Act is clear.