HIV AIDS Services Raided by Ugandan Police in War on Gays


This is totally inhuman … AIDS had a start in that continent!! All the progress attained will be undone by this law …. and the situation will worsen! Ya think???

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 More LGBT Ugandans placed at risk of death while Project left with no choice but to suspend activities

By Melanie Nathan, April 4, 2014.

Screen Shot 2014-04-04 at 11.20.28 AMAccording to a Ugandan Government spokesperson, and confirmed by an OBLOGDEE source at the scene, as well as AP reports, the Ugandan police raided The Makerere University Walter Reed Project in Kampala, which provides HIV/ AIDS resources which may include LGBTI Ugandans.

The new anti-Homosexuality Act was cited as the reason for the raid on the project, which receives funds from the United States of America.

Our source noted:

“Walter Reed Project is an American research project on the spread of HIV that has been working on key populations in Uganda and the offices were closed and surrounded by police.”

The project was targeted for the so called “training youths in homosexuality,” according to anti-gay rhetoric of spokesman Ofwono Opondo, through a tweet,Friday.  According to an…

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