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Global Fund Observer (Nairobi) Africa: Don't Compromise Your Principles in the New Funding Model, Global Fund Told 3 August 2012 press release At the International AIDS Conference, protestors disrupted the start of a session on the Global Fund in order to deliver a message that the Fund's new funding model must be demand driven, and must not place caps on requests from countries. The protestors asked some of the panellists to sign a pledge along these lines. Global Fund General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo was one of the signatories. The Global Fund's new funding model must be demand driven, and must not place caps on requests from individual countries. This was the message delivered by a group of activists on 26 July at a session on the Global Fund at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. The Global Fund is in the process of designing a new model to replace the ...

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jim Pickett < JPickett@aidschicago.org > Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:21 PM Subject: [RectalMicro IRMA] Uganda AIDS Activist Sees Hope in Rectal Microbicides To: " RECTALMICRO@CRITPATH.ORG " < RECTALMICRO@lists.critpath.org > Uganda AIDS Activist Sees Hope in Rectal Microbicides http://www.citizen-news.org/2012/07/uganda-aids-activist-sees-hope-in.html#more UGANDAN AIDS activist and medical doctor, Paul Semugoma , 42, said that rectal microbicides have a potential to save the unnecessary loss of lives among men who have sex with men in Uganda and across Africa. According to a study titled, " HIV Infection among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Kampala, Uganda – A Respondent Driven Sampling Survey ," it is estimated that the adult male HIV prevalence in Kampala is 4.5 per cent but the prevalence estimates among men who have sex with men (MSM) is 13.7 per cent. Most MSM still hav...

Interesting that I always thought Ghandi, whom I admired very much, was gay, primarily because of his pacifist leanings, partly because of his mannerisms and some of the things he wrote. Either way, this relationship with Mr. Kallenbach sounds like an intriguing one... Some day I'll have to buy this book...   Indian Government Spends $1.3 Million To Stop Auction Of Gandhi Letters That May Show He Was Gay   The Huffington Post  |  By Laura Hibbard Posted: 07/12/2012 1:40 pm Updated: 07/12/2012 4:22 pm     Last year, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld released his book, "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India," causing controversy with parts some say included implications that Gandhi had a homosexual relationship with architect Hermann Kallenbach.   Gandhi's home state of Gujarat banned the book in March, and now the Indian government has dished out $1.28 million to purchase an archive m...

FYI: Meanwhile, in Uganda…. Subject: Alert: Police Interrupt EHAHRDP Workshop; Question Workshop Participants and Organizers in Kampala Dear Friends, A training workshop for human rights defenders organized by the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project has been interrupted by uninvited media representatives and the police. Participants are currently being questioned by the police. EHAHRDP organized the training working on monitoring, documentation and reporting of human rights violations for LGBTI defenders, which opened this morning at Esella Country Hotel, Najjera, Kampala. The workshop organisers, which brought together twenty HRDs from Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya, as well as seven EHAHRDP staff members and interns, stopped the meeting when they learned that the media was coming to the hotel. Around ten journalists arrived at approximately 2.30pm, and two or three cameras were used to film the event. EHAHRDP has ...

 OPINION: KENYAN MEDIA HOUSE BANS HATE SPEECH TARGETING LGBTI IN ADVERTS   OPINION: KENYAN MEDIA HOUSE BANS HATE SPEECH TARGETING LGBTI IN ADVERTS Election time is looming in Kenya and there is a sense of guardedness as the country moves from the dark past of post election violence in 2007 that resulted in the deaths of over 1,500 people. Melissa Wainaina Arcus Correspondent Kenya The upcoming election is also a litmus test of the new people-driven constitution that Kenyans came up with in 2010. The election will also mark the end of the incumbent president's second term of office and efforts are being made to ensure that the transition of power is peaceful, free and fair. In light of the sometimes adverse role sections of the media played at the last election, the move by the Nation Media Group (NMG, East and Central Africa's largest media house) to publish guidelines for political advertising comes as a pleasant surpri...

KENYAN CLERGY, OPPOSE CALL BY NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO LEGALISE HOMOSEXUALITY Members of the clergy and some human rights activists in Kenya have raised their objections to recommendations last week that homosexuality be de-criminalised in the East African country. The recommendations are proposed in a report on safeguarding sexual and reproductive health rights. The report, launched on Thursday, is as a result of a public inquiry that had been set up by the commission to examine the extent and nature of violations of the two rights. The Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHCR) on Thursday, May 3, 2012, called for the Kenya government to decriminalise homosexuality and prostitution in that country. In a report unveiled by the human rights watchdog, the commission proposed legalization of the vices after the gay and lesbian community in the country, together with those practising commercial sex works, had complained that they were being discriminated against. Accord...

And no respect for the South African Constitution . By Melanie Nathan, May 13, 2012. Much publicity and outrage followed the recent comments made by Chief Patike Holomisa, pursuant to a submission by the House of Traditional Leaders to Parliament's Constitutional Review Committee, proposing the removal of the constitutional provision protecting individuals from being discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation. Chief Patekile Holomisa is  is an advocate  (lawyer) of the Supreme Court,  an  MP for the  ANC, a traditional leader, chairman of the joint Constitutional Review Committee and Chairman of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA); Founding member of PISA – parliamentary Institute. This is what he had said in the context of a review of LGBTI entrenched Constitutional rights:- "the ANC knows that the 'great majority' of South Africans do not want to promote or protect the rights of gays and lesbians." Th...