Comments on: A billion dollars: not enough for gay men in Uganda

By: Barry

Barry — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:27:00 +0000

It is just a general cum politician who can’t think of anything to say. The Uganda army has tested for at least 15 years and used to turn +ve people away at the recruiting stage, with almost no regard at all for confidentiality. And the likelihood that Uganda soldiers got infected in Somalia is laughably low, not because there isn’t any but that the the situation there is so violent that any soldier having sex with a local would probably not long survive the experience if any Somali got to know about it. Still you never know.

By: Roger Tatoud

Roger Tatoud — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:53:47 +0000

Wait…

The army just found out they have a new invisible ennemy: AIDS.. be sure something will change….

http://allafrica.com/stories/200806060080.html
(comment available on my blog…)

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:24:22 +0000

Then let’s admit that there isn’t enough governmental support in most countries to properly address MSM with typical Global Fund support. For countries where the government-led coalition hasn’t been able to do a good enough job for MSM- offer a special GF proposal process for NGOs to fill the gap.

MSM groups in South Asia have been trying to do this- but it seems like Global Fund/Geneva doesn’t want to offend country host governments by offering funds outside of CCM-driven proposals.

Until a time where the donor community rethinks the global approach to HIV prevention projects with MSM- we will continue to have half-hearted governmental projects that are engineered to do the absolute minimum so they can keep getting money overall. It’s a waste of money and of important time.

By: Dag Brück

Dag Brück — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:12:43 +0000

Well, you could possibly argue that the group of people who have repeatedly failed to do anything are also “drivers of HIV”.

If so, maybe substantial funds have indeed been funneled to one of the major drivers of HIV in Uganda?