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Stop TB Partnership Statement On World AIDS Day - 2023

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   Stop TB Partnership Statement On World AIDS Day - 2023 We Are Empowering TB Communities To Lead The Stop TB Partnership stands in solidarity with the families and friends of those who lost their lives to HIV-AIDS and TB-HIV co-infection and the communities and networks of people living with HIV and leading the response. 30 November 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - On this World AIDS Day we add our voice in calling for Communities to lead the responses at national and regional levels to end TB, HIV and Malaria as well as other diseases. TB is one of the leading causes of death in people living with HIV. As per the latest 2022 WHO data, 671,000 people living with HIV fell ill with TB, with the highest burden in countries in the WHO African Region, and TB caused 167,000 deaths in people living with HIV. The Stop TB Partnership stands in solidarity with the families and friends of those who lost their lives to HIV-AIDS and TB-HIV co-infection and the communities and networks of people liv
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Trans Health Competency In Uganda: Promoting HIV Services' Uptake Targeting Transgender (TG), Gender-non conforming (GNC), Women-who-have-sex-with-women (WSW) and Men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) 2018-2023

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Knowledge hubs led and run by  Trans, Gender-non conforming, Women-who-have-sex-with-women (WSW) and Men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM)  increase their participation in mobilization drives that in turn make their communities attend HIV/TB/Malaria/Hepatitis Service spaces. We conducted 10 Medical Camps where we have tested 10,000 people for TB and 3,000 had Positive TB diagnosis and were linked to care; we have established 50 TB Prevention Walk-in Days (10 per year X 5 years) and reached 900 health seekers out of which 270 had a Positive TB diagnosis. Our findings show a slightly higher reading than the national incidence rate of 200 per 100,000 population with a mortality rate of 35 per 100,000.  There are predictors of TB, HIV and STI among the marginalized. There is need to  generate strategic plans that lead to developing gender tailored and focused TB, HIV and STI prevention interventions among Key and Vulnerable Populations.  Trans-Health Competency is needed to connect Trans, Gender
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World Hepatitis Day!

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Opinion: The Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), 2023 May Have Exonerated Uganda The Dust Has Not Settled, What Remains Is a Paradox of Bare Virtues

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  Bare virtue can't make nations live. Mindfulness makes nations thrive. The AHA is a detrimental capital to the overall public health principles rooted in calling for aspirations whose fabric and backdrop is mindfulness. Fast forward and subsequent to the AHA in Uganda, there are assumptions that have come about: a culture of stigma, intrusiveness and discrimination has churned out a guilt by association context. Men hugging in greeting will be suspect and so will women hugging; men sharing the same room and hotel bed will be suspect and so will women; innocent acts such as play-weddings among children of same-sex will be punished. Youths with sagging pants will be the pariah of society. Tomboys or boys who throw like girls stand warned. Rainbow symbolism of any kind be it in dress, dance, drama, flag or Rasta-culture, will trigger investigations into aiding, abetting, recruiting and sponsoring homosexual acts in Uganda. All this is circumstantial fodder that will feed into the
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Anti-Gay Bill, 2023: A Boy Can Throw Like A Girl, But in Uganda This Will Be Criminalised

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Gender is fluid. Gender is dramatic. Society is to a tide what gender is to an ocean. Society and gender draw determination from each other. To legislate gender is likely to lead to censoring social roles which may nip genres, innovation, agency, determination, autonomy and productivity in the bud. Dress, prayer, song, recreation, drama, dance, prose, interaction, political dispensation, service delivery, scripture, religiosity, normativity, feminism, masculinity, education, knowledge and skills transfer, parenting, trade, speech, liberty, happiness, socialisation, ritual, rites of passage, gender reveal events, nurturing and lifestyle will be affected in a post Anti-Gay Act 2023 Uganda. Anti-Gay is a regime that fuels negative gender stereotyping, upholds misandryist and misogynistic tendencies including sardonic, innuendo-laced and suggestive remarks sexually objectifying bodies. A male whose voice never breaks and a female who grows beards will be stigmatised. Uganda is to be
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The Anti-Gay Bill, 2023, If Assented To By The President Of The Republic of Uganda, Will Reverse The Good HIV/TB/Malaria-related Public Health Outcomes: Lessons Informing Bio-behavioural Risks for HIV/TB/Malaria, April 2023

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The Anti-Gay Bill, 2023 was tabled on the 21st/March 2023. Among many of its blows, is criminalising any form of Public Health service targeting the LGBTIQ+ including the right to associate. This report was produced to highlight the Public Health and Legal Services that may be inaccessible if the law comes into force.  The Anti-Gay Bill, will violate the rights to liberty, freedom from fear of one’s life, freedom of pursuance of happiness, freedom of expression and association, liberty, privacy, equality, freedom from discrimination, inhumane and degrading treatment, and a fair hearing – all of which are guaranteed under Ugandan and international law – for all Ugandans and persons in Uganda. From a Strategic Public Health view point CBOs/CSOs, whether led by cis-persons, Sex-workers, Persons who use drugs, or LGBTIQ+, are expert peer networks that demonstrate superior public health benefits and outcomes for HIV, TB and Malaria prevention in cisgender males, persons who use drugs, peopl
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Dear Parliamentarian (2019) Letter: The Love Where One Leaves The Beauty of A Woman And Settles For A Fellow Man-2019

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  The Love Where One Leaves The Beauty of A Woman And Settles For A Fellow Man Dear Parliamentarian; In this letter to you, I attempt to highlight or trace: What compels us to denounce homosexuality The people behind denunciation of homosexuality The rationale behind the denunciation Where outlawing homosexuality gets it wrong The ideology of homosexuality The biology of homosexuality The theology of homosexuality Homosexuality is not the pressing matter Ugandan Parliament makes it to be And please, stop using the term "homosexuals" or "homosexuality." That is oxymoronic. It is also equivalent to tying someone up and expect them to carry water at the same time. Or eating your cake and expecting to have it at the same time. The people you are dealing with are called:  neurodivergent gender diverse persons. This letter is about the love where one leaves the beauty of a woman and settles for a fellow man.  It is also about the love where one leaves the man and settles
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