Ugandan HIV centre raided by cops

Sadly, this is the form of Christianity in Uganda. Hate gay people and harass organisations trying to help them. In this case, a US backed HIV centre that (amongst other things) educated men about safe sex.

It started with cops going under cover would you believe. Apparently the gay peril issue must be addressed by the state?

Two Ugandan police officers went undercover for almost a month in an investigation that led to last week’s raid on an HIV center run by the U.S. Military HIV Program in partnership with Makerere University in Kampala, according to a statement released by the Ugandan police on Tuesday.

Surveillance of the facility began following a March 15 report “that an NGO based in Nakasero area of Kampala was carrying out recruitment and training of young males in unnatural sexual acts,” said the statement, which was attributed to spokesman Fred Enganga. Crime intelligence officers went to “verify the claims by infiltrating the project,” posing as men seeking safe-sex education.

The officers found that the training “targeted youth between the ages of 18 and 25,” who “were shown videos of men engaging in homosexual activity.”

The police broke their cover, the statement said, after “officers observed a large number of participants being shown a same-sex pornographic film.” (The statement said the action took place on April 4, but the details match reports about the raid that took place on April 3.) After they “identified themselves to the facilitators and asked for an explanation on what was happening,” the participants fled the clinic. The statement seems to dispute the U.S. State Department’s claim that an employee of the project was arrested, saying instead that “one of the facilitators “accompanied the officers to Jinja Road Police Station to assist in investigation, and was later released.” more

The place was raided, much to the consternation of the international community that are the very donors of aid to Uganda.

The Thursday raid by Ugandan police on a U.S.-backed HIV facility in Kampala could force a confrontation that international donors have been desperate to avoid. 

As soon as the Anti-Homosexuality Act was signed, Ugandan Health Minister Ruhakana Rugunda began giving assurances to donors underwriting the country’s HIV program. It would not affect efforts to control the epidemic nor would it curtail services to LGBT people, he asserted. Donors have continued to treat those pledges as credible even as the anti-LGBT rhetoric from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and other officials has continued to escalate, in part because donors worry about making the situation worse for LGBT Ugandans if Western nations can be portrayed as allowing people to die of HIV in retaliation for the law. 

The raid on the Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) — a research initiative of the U.S. Military HIV Program — was exactly what public health and LGBT advocates had feared could happen. And it could force the hand of donors at a time when advocates are already accusing the Obama administration of dithering and sending mixed messages about how the law will affect our relationship with the East African nation. more

If Uganda is trying to hose it all down to keep getting aid, they are going the wrong way about it. You can't threaten an HIV centre and not expect that to cause an increase in HIV infections, it's as simple as that. Who now of those men who were learning about safe sex that fled, will ever return to that centre? Uganda is playing with an HIV bomb here, but their so blinded by their fuckin stupid religion they think they're doing the right thing to persecute a minority. How very fuckin Christian of them.