Kampala Key, Vulnerable and Priority Populations (KVP) News

The LGBTIQ+ in Uganda can ably and effectively contribute to eradicating HIV. They have within them people who have worked so tirelessly to mobilize communities for testing and other attendant activities driving uptake and roll-out of response.  Strategic Litigation And Human Rights Advocacy:  From 2000-2019 funding has been provided for Strategic Litigation and Human Rights Mobilization and Advocacy. Almost all activities were: paying for office rent, Litigation, Workshops, salaries for officers and activities geared at raising consciousness toward rights.  Whereas funding was available none of it was provided for caring for the LGBTIQ+ Living with HIV. Rights advocacy work is necessary and commendable but it made it very hard for the Gay medical doctors to provide input or say. Health issues remained to be the work of these selfless medical doctors who decided to use their own funds to care for over 800+ LGBTIQ+ Living With HIV. Strategic HIV/AIDS Preventio...

Imagine my consternation when a group of LGBTIQQ youths organized a talk-show event and invited me to be the guest speaker! Surprise, surprise. I thought I was prepared until I was asked later to talk about Cancer and HIV. I held my ground and took them through the information I knew from experience would be helpful to them. I have looked around for articles that talk about Cancer and HIV in the same breathe too. The one provided by POZ Newsletter is very appropriate and I recommend all readers to access that newsletter. It is a treasure trove. Liz Highleyman is a writer with POX Newsletter. In this article she   writes about Sean McKenna a long-term survivor living with HIV and other related experiences. “Sean McKenna has faced numerous battles, including two episodes of skin cancer and several bouts of anal pre-cancer. Jill Cadman, another long-timer, is living with HIV and Stage IV colon cancer. And they are not alone. “Almost every long-term survivor I know is d...