Kampala Key, Vulnerable and Priority Populations (KVP) News

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, p...

One heart reasons with emotional misogynistic eloquence and the other with logical inclusive eloquence. Law and the processes of jurisprudence in Uganda, like most former British colonies, borrow heavily from the English Common Law. In Uganda the Common Law is conflated with what many call tradition. Normativity is one such example in Uganda which is not spoken about exhaustively especially if it questions the toxic masculinity status quo. If a lady withholds the salary of a female house help, that is understandable! Almost all child mothers one sees in Uganda presently, are as a result of the unplanned for sexual intercourse that occured during COVID-19 pandemic Lockdown in many households. That they need care is hushed up. But bring the subject of those gay, homosexuals, the "elephant grass eaters," the boot openers," and communities will come to the town hall in droves. Heteronormativity is well protected, preserved, promoted and it provides mileage or public le...