{"id":11049,"date":"2023-06-27T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11049"},"modified":"2023-06-27T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T15:38:13","slug":"ugandas-new-anti-gay-law-could-undermine-aids-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11049","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s New Anti-Gay Law Could Undermine AIDS Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni this week signed into law his country&#8217;s most aggressive assault yet on the rights of Uganda&#8217;s LGBT community. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-65745850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anti-Homosexuality Bill<\/a>&nbsp;dictates a life sentence for anyone caught having gay sex and the death penalty for anyone convicted of &#8220;aggravated homosexuality,&#8221; a term that encompasses sex with minors or sex that results in the transfer of sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV. Furthermore, the law&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/29\/world\/africa\/uganda-anti-gay-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a>&nbsp;anyone who &#8220;promotes homosexuality&#8221; be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison in a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2023\/03\/amnesty-international-calls-on-president-museveni-to-reject-anti-lgbtqi-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vaguely worded<\/a>&#8221; provision that puts activists and public health advocates at risk.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/06\/03\/ugandas-new-anti-gay-law-could-undermine-aids-prevention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/06\/03\/ugandas-new-anti-gay-law-could-undermine-aids-prevention\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni this week signed into law his country&#8217;s most aggressive assault yet on the rights of Uganda&#8217;s LGBT community. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill dictates a life sentence for anyone caught having gay sex and the death penalty for anyone convicted of &#8220;aggravated homosexuality,&#8221; a term that encompasses sex with minors or sex that results in the transfer of sexually transmitted infections, such as HIV. Furthermore, the law says anyone who &#8220;promotes homosexuality&#8221; be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison in a &#8220;vaguely worded&#8221; provision that puts activists and public health advocates at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[695,696,697,919,1886],"class_list":["post-11049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aids","tag-gay","tag-homosexual","tag-lgbtq","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11050,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}