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Photo:Minority activists make a case for equal access to treatment before Parliamentary HIV/AIDS Committee.( L-R)Ms Macklean Kyomya (WONETHA), Mr.Kikonyogo Kivumbi (UHSPA)and Ms Daisy Nakato( WONETHA) Kampala, November 30,201O…. We, the leaders of Minority Rights Organizations in Uganda with Special interest in reversing HIV/AIDS prevalence rates among our constituencies; Aware of the important contribution of Ugandan Civil Society to best practices in Global management of HIV/AIDS, In full Solidarity with you our sisters and brothers in CSO in the genuine struggles ahead to better management of HIV/AIDS Uganda, Cognizant of the incredible contribution to past and ongoing research involving sex workers and LGBTI community in Uganda and other countries to the development and advancement of knowledge on Anti Retroviral Therapy, prevention, care and diagnostic regimes, currently benefiting Ugandans, Underscoring the important lobbying you do for Universal access to Anti retroviral Th

Kampala- November 26, 2010 A High Court Judge in Uganda has questioned the legality and assertions that two women in an intimate sexual relationship were “against the order of nature.” In a first to casting a shadow of doubt and unconstitutionality on the draconian Ugandan Penal Code criminalizing same sex relationships in Uganda, Justice Kibuuka Musoke wondered Friday in Kampala what wrong two intimate women in Love commit. “Two women…..Tell me counsel; …….what order of nature is violated here?!” Justice Musoke, asked a defense lawyer in a case in which three alleged gays sued a Ugandan tabloid for violating their Constitutional Rights. The defense lawyer had told a packed court that two of the plaintiffs (names with held) were lesbians, committing acts against the order of nature, and promoting homosexuality. He cited several internet sites where the photos of the plaintiffs are alleged to appear as gay activists. The defense lawyer also struggled to tell court that the plaintiffs ha

FOUR American Evangelical Christian Pastors have donated US$30,000 to an HIV/AIDS organisation along Sentema road in Kampala to facilitate the publishing of the Rolling stone tabloid,advocating for hatrade,violence and death against Ugandan homosexuals.The move is to ensure that the money is not frozen by the High Court on Rolling stone account, following a recent high court order against the paper.The latest issue of the rolling stone photographed above claims homosexuals carried out kampala bombings,and were behing al-shabab attacks in Kampala in July 2010. This time round the pastors are working behind an American trained Ugandan Catholic priest attached to Nalukongo Vulnerable peoples home along Ndeba road in Kampala who is a board member of the NGO. It is not clear if the catholic priest is working as an individual or has institutionalised blessing. If he has institutionalised go-ahead, it will be a departure from the Uganda Joint Christian Council Position, opposing the

PICTURE CAPTION LGBTI and Sex workers rights activists join a match through the streets of Kampala (June2010) to demand increades funding and equal access to health care from leaders to be elected in next years's Presidential elections. The Ministry of Health has since intentionally omitted LGBTIs from HSSIPIII November 7, 2010 The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, P.O. Box 7272 Kampala- Uganda Dear Sir, RE: OMISSION OF SEXUAL MINORITIES FROM ACCESSING VITAL HEALTH SERVICES UNDER MARPS IN HEALTH SECTOR STRATEGIC PLAN III Uganda Health and Science Press Association (UHSPA-Uganda), a network of groups and individuals working to mainstream minority rights in Uganda’s Public Health Policies and laws is concerned about the omission/ exclusion of sexual minorities from accessing vital health services in the soon to be launched Health Sector Strategic Plan III. Although UHSPA participated in the Civil Society Joint Assessment of the HSSPIII, we have founded fears that the policy