Kampala Key, Vulnerable and Priority Populations (KVP) News

This Saturday (19/03/2022), our team reflected on our TB Prevention work in the wider milieu of other planned prevention activities we engage in. We work with information on a minute-by-minute basis. Information is the fuel that drives action. It is a constant stimuli. But it is still hard to conceptualize as power. In our Saturday reflection essay, we attempted to break down the elements and the connections so that the cliche is meaningful. Power and the body; how information is power It is said, 'information is power.' But how? The elements of power include: ideas, action, beliefs, belief systems, intuition, affordability, accessibility, admittance, utility, utilitarianship, provisions and the like. The elements of the body include, physicality, emotionality, personality, experience, agency, autonomy, productivity, self determination and the like. There are overlaps and this contributes to experiences. The clincher is about leading better lives. Or making better decisions. It...

 There are some who are contributing to the abuses LGBTIQQ face. LGBTIQQ Persons are human beings and as humans deserve dignity and empowering so that they thrive. There are some among the LGBTIQQ who enjoy leadership positions but instead of supporting their constituents to thrive, they instead put them down. There are some who are supposed to guide, lead and prompt good conduct within the LGBTIQQ, but instead there is a tendency of using influence to cause inequality. Leaders who do that are actually Judas among the Black queer messiahs. They horde money supposed to benefit the entire LGBTIQQ Community for their own private ends. They get in the way of progress by not supporting development or critical structures through which thriving can be possible. The LGBTIQQ Community needs to know how to navigate the society in order to uplift a bigger number of actors. When a few empowered LGBTIQQ turn on other less empowered LGBTIQQ, this is what creates an atmosphere of a Judas among th...