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...

In the arena and coliseum of public ideas, opinion and policy in Africa, sexuality, orientation and gender identity have stoked conversations and in whatever directions.  These conversations, have now becomes the tides, torrents and tempests churning political oceans in Africa. and the world.  But, really, is this a deliberate way able-bodied people are excusing themselves from being gainfully employed?  Do Africans have so much time on themselves, that they can afford to be wasteful?  In the article below, one reads about what has become trendy in Africa and elsewhere. The creation of mechanisms to indignify people seems to be celebrated now more than ever. Miriam Berger    writes: "Uganda arrested 16 LGBTQ activists. Here’s where else gay rights are a battleground in the world. This week Ugandan  police arrested 16 LGBTQ activists  on charges of gay sex — which is punishable by life imprisonment. Police arres...