Minorities meet Parliament Speaker over the Right to Health




Minority leaders have this morning met the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi to petition over the right to Health. The group was led by Macklean Kyomya,leader of sex workers rights organisation Wonetha, and Mr Kikonyogo kivumbi, the UHSPA executive director. We gave him condom gifts and macklean told him the hiv/aids control bill 2010 should be fair and incorporate sex workers as active stakeholders in the fight against hiv/aids prevelance in Uganda. The speaker said he was happy and would forward the opinions in the petition to the social services committtee currently handling the bill for consideration, and possible inclussion.

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