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Ugandans act on East African Parliament’s proposed ‘gay-friendly’ HIV Bill Changing Attitude, October 21st, 2011   Kikonyogo Kivumbi reports on Behind the Mask:  Gay rights activists in Uganda have started consultations with HIV/Aids and human rights organisations about the proposed East African Community HIV and Aids Prevention and Management Bill, 2010. The activists have been spurred by the fact that the East African Community Council (EAC) of Legal and Judicial Affairs will be meeting next week to develop opinion on the gay friendly East African HIV/Aids bill and advise their home governments.  The meeting taking place in Arusha, Tanzania will be attended by the Attorneys General and Justice Ministers of the five East African Community member countries of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.  The outcomes shall set discussions for the EAC Council of Ministers set for the second week of November which will be attended by amongst others Uganda’s Minister for EAC Eriya Kategay

MEDIA ADVISORY   For Immediate Release:  16 October 2012 Contact for more information:  Alice Kayongo-Mutebi, Community Health Alliance Uganda, 0772440108/0701440108  alkayongo@gmail.com   Action Group for Health, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS (AGHA) Uganda AIDS Information Centre (AIC) Uganda  • Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development (HEPS) Uganda  • Health Global Access Project (Health GAP)  • Health Rights Action Group (HAG)  • International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) Eastern Africa  • International HIV/AIDS Alliance Uganda  • National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (NACWOLA)  • National Forum of People Living with HIV/AIDS Networks in Uganda (NAFOPHANU) The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) Uganda  • Uganda Network on Law, Ethics and HIV/AIDS (UGANET) Uganda Health and Science Press  Association (UHSPA) Uganda Network of AIDS Service Organisations (UNASO)  Uganda’s AIDS Response

http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/636492-uganda-s-aids-response-moving-in-reverse.html Publish Date: Oct 17, 2012 newvision By Vicky Wandawa An HIV/AIDS report by advocacy organisations in Uganda indicates that new transmissions are on the rise amidst troubling trends of increasing prevalence and incidence. The findings are contained in a report titled: “The Change We Need to End AIDS in Uganda,” which describes a ten-point plan to halt the trend. The plan is to be presented at Uganda’s 2012 Joint Annual Aids Review, Imperial Hotel during a two-day symposium that ends today Wednesday. Speaking at a media breakfast at Fairway Hotel in Kampala on Tuesday, Alice Kayongo, the HIV/AIDS Policy /Advisor with Community Health Alliance Uganda, noted: “HIV prevalence in Uganda has risen from 6.4% in 2006 to 7.3%. Uganda is the only country reporting rise in HIV incidence, yet we are receiving funding from the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),