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COVID-19 and How It Impacts My Life: Uganda Queer Short Stories - Desert Island Series Henrietta The Desert Island Series are about COVID-19 and daily activities of life among the LGBTIQQ of Uganda. These are radical compositions countering deficit narratives used to justify othering, marginalization, externalisation and peripheralisation. This is an art of crafting, claiming and consolidating space for Queer persons to talk about, demand and recognise how they can promote self-determination and quality life. In the stories we celebrate innovations, executions and translations that culminate into lived realities and destinies. Moderator and Interviewer: Tom Muyunga-Mukasa Featuring: Any person willing to tell a story Synopsis Meet Henry, an adult male-to-female Transgender Ugandan Person, a Clinical Psychologist and Life-span Counsellor. The father is a prince from Buganda Kingdom, an Anglican Church member and the mother is also Anglican heading the Mothers’ Union in Kisugu a subu...

THE INDEPENDENT |  "The COVID-19 pandemic is testing health care and disaster management systems of countries and the agility of policy responses to effectively handle a public health catastrophe. Since the first reported case in Africa on February 14, countries in the region have responded to the disease with varying levels of success, with many countries taking the lead in various ways. For example, on March 4, Nigeria was the first African country to sequence the SARS-CoV-2 genome. South Africa is now leading the continent in testing per capita—27,485 tests per million people as of July 1—currently ranked 19th globally. According to the American research Group, Brookings Institute, from Cape Town to Cairo, many countries have seized the opportunity to combine both existing emergency health care protocols and innovation to improve response effectiveness, from building affordable ventilators to using digital and emerging technologies for tracking and other economic activities. In...