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| Chief Rose Ayere talks to a group of injecting drug users in Nairobi. |
This was originally published on Global Health TV on May 27, 2014.
NAIROBI and KISUMU, Kenya — Anti-gay legislation recently
signed into law in Uganda
and Nigeria
has alarmed
organizations implementing HIV prevention in Africa, fearing that such laws
will further stigmatize and marginalize at-risk populations already hard to
reach with health services.
So when I traveled to Kenya this month to interview men who
have sex with men (MSM), injecting drug users (IDUs), and people working in
programs trying to help them supported by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, I
wondered whether I would encounter “the next Uganda” in gay rights. I did not,
but what I did find surprised me.
