Kampala Key, Vulnerable and Priority Populations (KVP) News

28th July is World Hepatitis Day!  What lessons do you get? Do you know anything about Hepatitis? CDC asks us to learn more about the different types of viral hepatitis that impact millions worldwide and what is being done to help eliminate hepatitis. Viral hepatitis — a group of infectious diseases known as hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E — affects millions of people worldwide, causing both acute (short-term) and chronic (long-term) liver disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) data show an estimated 325 million people worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B or chronic hepatitis C. Viral hepatitis caused 1.34 million deaths in 2015, a number comparable to deaths caused by tuberculosis and HIV combined. While deaths from tuberculosis and HIV have been declining, deaths from hepatitis are increasing. World Hepatitis Day is July 28 th and is an opportunity to learn the global burden of this disease, CDC’s efforts to combat viral hepatitis around the world, and action...

The world is on track to get 30 million HIV patients on treatment by 2030. But the last push will be the hardest, extending care to the most marginalized populations. Here are some of the innovations and strategies that scientists and practitioners are considering to tackle the challenge. Concerns have increased over global funding and worries that continued drops might undercut rec ent progress. The most acute concerns center around the United States, the largest global donor to HIV care. If Congress adopts President Donald Trump's proposed 20 percent cuts in funding for HIV programs in ongoing budget negotiations, the world could see as many as 90,000 additional AIDS-related deaths starting next year, the Kaiser Family Foundation has estimated. The loss of funding would further drain a diminishing pool of resources. A joint report from KFF and UNAIDS released ahead of the conference showed a 7 percent drop in global donor funding for HIV in 2016, plungin...

Our experience has been that of working within countries ultra-suspicious of many forms of organization e.g., Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, Egypt, Morocco, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Tanzania; nations have a larger younger population whose psychosocial needs are under-met e.g., Uganda, Zimbabwe, RSA, Kenya, DRC, RDC, Cameroon, Nigeria...;  individuals whose threadbare link to the internet is via Facebook's Accessible Wifi using smartphones that need recharging in economies where electricity rationing is de rigeur. But.... We have seen positives and worked with the little resources we had available. We use an online method we named OTISSSS. OTISSSS in full is: Online Trauma, Identity, Sexuality and Suicide Support Services. We started operation in 2014. Online balkanization is a new venture in socialization and we hope that as people can access smart phones, it will be another form of collectivism or cooperation which will empower individuals in skills such as: intercultural communic...

MARPS in Uganda initiated the Online Trauma, Identity, Sexuality & Suicide Support Services-OTISSSS an online platform providing fifteen sessions per person and we first targeted beneficiaries who had HIV and those who contemplated suicide. We operate at:  https://www.facebook.com/Onlinetraumasupport/ ( @Onlinetraumasupport ) or   #OnlineTraumaCounselling We have also gone a step further to provide a second option at:  https://www.facebook.com/africacrisiscounsellingfoundation/   ( @africacrisiscounsellingfoundation ).  With these two options, we are able to handle the traffic as it comes our way.   Suicide as well as the fact that all our beneficiaries cited a common experience that counselling options are affected by the cultural-social-economical contexts, are issues that prompted us to start the online platforms. The WHO estimates that globally there are at least 20 suicide attempts for every success, meaning that there...

Why do we become intimate? Why do we work in teams? Why do we cooperate in order to achieve different goals? Why is intimacy considered a way of giving back to society? Erikson’s Theory on   intimacy Erikson’s Theory on isolation An understanding of intimacy and Valliant’s Theory When it comes to friends or spouses, the features we look for Intimacy as a cause and effect force Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love and the practical aspect of intimacy.   Intimacy prepares us for future experiences in relations. Gender-based relations and friendships can be explored at same-sex or other-Sex levels Why do we become intimate? Why do we work in teams? Why do we cooperate in order to achieve different goals? Why is intimacy considered a way of giving back to society? We are human beings and we are biological organic beings. We are human beings and we are social animals.   As biological beings we need to be cared for psychosocially. As organic beings we...

We are The Most Risk Populations' Society in Uganda (MARPS in Uganda). We were formed to specifically advocate for and catalyze strategic public health and wellness outcomes targeting the Gays, People Living With HIV, TB, Malaria by end of 2030. It is with this vision on mind that we came up with this Strategic Plan. The Four Way Approach: Over a considerable period, we have developed considerable tools to help capture meaning to different raised issues. We hope these are paths to understanding normativity.   We have gained skills and expertise in many areas but some critical product categories we are very confident of are captured in our SOGIESC Plan 2017-2030: The SOGIESC Plan 2017-2030: Sexuality Spectrum and its day-to-day application The SOGIESC Plan 2017-2030 : Orientation Spectrum and its day-to-day application The SOGIESC Plan 2017-2030 : Gender Spectrum and its day-to-day application The SOGIESC Plan 2017-2030 : Identity Spectrum and its day-to-day applic...