This from the Ugandan Parliament website:
Women oppose bill criminalizing HIV
Women living with HIV have petitioned Parliament opposing clauses of the HIV and Aids bill that criminalize the act of spreading HIV. They argue that criminalization provisions of the bill will force persons living with HIV underground for fear of prosecution.
“Women Living with HIV will be disproportionately prosecuted, since women often learn their HIV status before their male partners”, said Apea Agnes the Executive Director of the National Community of Women Living with HIV in Uganda (NACWOLA).
She told the Speaker of Parliament that mandatory testing and unauthorized disclosure of results will violate the rights of persons living with HIV and limit the participation in voluntary HIV testing and counseling.
The petitioners appealed to government to scale up its investment in antiretroviral treatment and care to save more than 500,000 Ugandans in urgent need of ARVs.
Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon Edward Ssekandi hailed NACWOLA for championing the fight against HIV and reaffirmed the commitment of Parliament to funding activities aimed at reducing the spread of HIV.
He confirmed that the HIV Bill before Parliament was tabled with good intentions aimed at reducing the spread of the virus.
The Ugandan Speaker’s response is hopeful. He refers to the HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill (go here for full text) tabled before Parliament in May. A similar argument can be advanced against the portion of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which uses HIV status to determine the death sentence.
Folks, here again we see Dr. Warren trying to drive us away from the point. Homosexuality is a different thing. It is a practise that a majority of Ugandans want pugged from the Nation. I know of a man who delibarately spread HIV/AIDS to about five women saying I will not die alone. Now such a person needs to be apprehended and dealt with–it could be thru counselling, law or ony other justifiable means. Homosexuality on the other hand is different. The existing laws must be strengthened to be able to fully function. Bahati has done us proud to put a bill together, so it us now to debate it and come up with what is acceptable to the society. Let uganda deal with this internal matters, I think US has other important things to concentrate on.
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Lynn, I take it that your statement highlighted above is a huge joke. There are no home-grown gay advocacy groups in Uganda. What we have are puppets installed by the Euro-American Gay Lobby. As I write, some of these puppets are in the United States briefing their American handlers about the progress (or lack of progress) they are making in getting Uganda to legalize sexual depravity.
Lynn, I take it that your statement highlighted above is a huge joke. There are no home-grown gay advocacy groups in Uganda. What we have are puppets installed by the Euro-American Gay Lobby. As I write, some of these puppets are in the United States briefing their American handlers about the progress (or lack of progress) they are making in getting Uganda to legalize sexual depravity.
If you are going to make sodomous acts illegal, will that include all sodomous acts between men and women? And will the penalties be the same?
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And I see Maazi is still too scared to think that there are homegrown Ugandan groups who are advocating for gays and lesbians and others.
Folks, here again we see Dr. Warren trying to drive us away from the point. Homosexuality is a different thing. It is a practise that a majority of Ugandans want pugged from the Nation. I know of a man who delibarately spread HIV/AIDS to about five women saying I will not die alone. Now such a person needs to be apprehended and dealt with–it could be thru counselling, law or ony other justifiable means. Homosexuality on the other hand is different. The existing laws must be strengthened to be able to fully function. Bahati has done us proud to put a bill together, so it us now to debate it and come up with what is acceptable to the society. Let uganda deal with this internal matters, I think US has other important things to concentrate on.
If you are going to make sodomous acts illegal, will that include all sodomous acts between men and women? And will the penalties be the same?
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And I see Maazi is still too scared to think that there are homegrown Ugandan groups who are advocating for gays and lesbians and others.
Warren,
I agree that spreading HIV should not be criminalized in Uganda— though, I must point out that deliberate spreading of AIDS is a prosecutable offence in western nations such as Germany and the UK. Homosexuality is a different matter altogether. It is the wish of the vast majority of Ugandans that homosexual acts remain a criminal offence so the Bahati Bill will stand, though we may agree that some clauses within it are crude/undesirable and should therefore be expunged during the parliamentary process. Of course, it goes without saying that pro-gay puppet groups installed in Uganda will not receive the welcome reception that the distinugished executives of NACWOLA received when they came to parliament. These puppet groups can go to US congress and receive their praise there— oh, I forgot, some of them have already gone to the US for that purpose.
Warren,
I agree that spreading HIV should not be criminalized in Uganda— though, I must point out that deliberate spreading of AIDS is a prosecutable offence in western nations such as Germany and the UK. Homosexuality is a different matter altogether. It is the wish of the vast majority of Ugandans that homosexual acts remain a criminal offence so the Bahati Bill will stand, though we may agree that some clauses within it are crude/undesirable and should therefore be expunged during the parliamentary process. Of course, it goes without saying that pro-gay puppet groups installed in Uganda will not receive the welcome reception that the distinugished executives of NACWOLA received when they came to parliament. These puppet groups can go to US congress and receive their praise there— oh, I forgot, some of them have already gone to the US for that purpose.