Kampala Key, Vulnerable and Priority Populations (KVP) News

Those of us who are working at the Grassroots are faced with the aesthetic and self esteem needs of People   Living With HIV are fascinated by these Lawyer-Medical Field battles. In USA, lawyers have mobilized themselves into a litigation collective to solicit for funds from Big Pharma. They have their arguments, which we shall not go into. Whereas, we also feel it is right to provide support from the excruciating pain of medication we do not necessarily condone litigation. Why not mediation? Why not the all inclusive dialogue approach? The chairs of the HIV Medicine Association and the American Academy of HIV Medicine urge health care advice from clinicians, not lawyers, according to  W. David Hardy and Margaret L. Hoffman-Terry. What’s the deal? Recently, a multimedia advertising campaign promoting lawsuits for safety issues related to  Truvada (TDF/FTC)  has been launched. These advertisements are looking for people living w...

Why I am Involved: The year is 1999. It was a cold night around 2:00 am, the fisher-folk of Kkome Island in Lake Victoria are preparing their nets and the kerosene lamps are hissing ferociously. They have to do this unfurling of nets, placing bait, buoys and all the while labelling them before they cast off. We were a team of health workers from the MoH residing in a large log shelter a distance away and had come to conduct a planned HIV Prevention and Care activity. I had been here earlier and as the harbinger had mobilized 521 members and prepared them through health education drives. By the time the larger MoH team came, the islanders were willing to participate and within another week we were winding up our work here.   When the team had left, I stayed longer to ensure that the three males I had identified for follow up took their medication to completion. I used all forms of placating borrowed from the book of reassurance. They were diagnosed with anal gonorrhea...