Human rights

Key Correspondents health blogs' on human rights and health reveal what life is like for people facing stigma, discrimination and violence due to their age, sexuality, gender, health status or disability.

Many Key Correspondents report personal accounts of LGBT people, men who have sex with men, and people living with HIV who are struggling to access health services due to stigma and discrimination.

Many Key Correspondents advocate for the rights of women, the rights of sex workers, LGBT, MSM and people who use drugs. They report on health campaigns that bring governments to account for failing to provide health services to these groups, as well as adding their voices to grass roots campaigns around stigma reduction, health provision and harm reduction.

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Disparities hinder passage of common East African AIDS drugs-access laws

Disparities between the views of East African community (EAC) member countries are complicating efforts to pass a common intellectual property law that would enable access to antiretrovirals to be scaled- up in the area, a regional meeting of East African Health rights NGOs was told last week (12 April 2012). more →
April 16, 2012 Submitted by zakman 0 Comments

‘Kenyans still biased towards marginalized groups’, finds report

  It may not be possible for Kenyans living with HIV and those who are gay to seek elective office after all, according to findings of a recent report. A new report indicates that Kenyans would not trust this group … more →
April 10, 2012 Submitted by Dnjagi 0 Comments

Criticism as Cameroon police shut down human rights workshop

The African Men for Sexual Health and Rights [AMSHeR] based in Johannesburg, South Africa has strongly condemned the unlawful shutting down by the police of a human rights workshop in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé at the end of March. Scheduled to … more →
April 10, 2012 Submitted by kityojames 0 Comments

Civil society unite against Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill

A coalition of civil society groups in Uganda have petitioned members of parliament in Uganda and beyond to protect the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people whose rights are threatened by the looming anti-homosexuality law. more →
April 4, 2012 Submitted by kityojames 0 Comments

Jessica’s story part two: is criminalising abortion the answer?

KC Sidi Sarro revisits Jessica, a female sex worker from Rongai, Kenya more →
April 3, 2012 Submitted by SerraS 0 Comments

LGBT people risk arrest to attend secret HIV testing session

A secret location in Kampala, Uganda has seen LGBT people attend voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT). more →
March 27, 2012 Submitted by kityojames 1 Comments

Sex workers and their rights

Jackie has been verbally, sexually and physically assaulted by her clients on numerous occasions and has had to bear it silently because she had nowhere or no-one to turn to. more →
March 16, 2012 Submitted by SerraS 0 Comments

Stop the Uganda anti-homosexuality bill!

The re-tabling of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill threatens to institutionalize discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender persons. more →
March 8, 2012 Submitted by kityojames 0 Comments
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