Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has apparently had a change of heart about the nation’s approach to the fight against AIDS. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Vinand Nantulya
Resignation adds uncertainty to Aids battle in Uganda
Prof. Vinand M. Nantulya has resigned as chairman of a Ugandan health policy panel that makes crucial decisions about the country’s anti-Aids projects, including those that often have excluded LGBTI Ugandans from receiving HIV services in the past. During Nantulya’s four years on the panel, people most at risk for HIV infection at last gained … Continue reading
In Uganda, new bill threatens LGBTI advocates
LGBTI rights activists in Uganda have sounded an alarm about a new threat to their advocacy of justice and fair treatment for the country’s sexual minorities. While the now-overturned Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014 targeted individual LGBTI Ugandans and the organizations representing them, the NGO Bill focuses only on the LGBTI rights organizations, along with every … Continue reading
Finally, an LGBT voice on Uganda’s anti-HIV panel
People most at risk for HIV infection finally have a voice on the Ugandan health policy panel that makes crucial decisions about anti-AIDS projects. Following an election process that ran from Dec. 10 to Feb. 18, Kikonyogo Kivumbi today took a seat on the Uganda Country Coordinating Mechanism (UCCM) panel as a representative for LGBT people, … Continue reading
No LGBT activists win seats on Ugandan anti-HIV panel
An election that could have given LGBT activists a voice in improving sexual minorities’ access to HIV services in Uganda instead ended Feb. 5 amid accusations of manipulation and without any LGBT advocates on a crucial health policy panel. But the election did accomplish its basic goal — selecting two representatives for the Ugandan panel … Continue reading
Uganda LGBTI get 2nd chance to elect legitimate reps
Efforts to increase LGBTI people’s and sex workers’ involvement in planning Ugandan health services are not going smoothly, reports Ugandan correspondent Kikonyogo Kivumbi. An election to choose representatives of those key population groups was ruled invalid on Wednesday, Jan. 21. As a result, those groups still have no official representatives on the Ugandan health policy … Continue reading
