How Uganda’s Anti-Gay Law Hurts Women

In 2008 a colleague and l were in Uganda’s capital Kampala to attend an awareness session on domestic violence in minority communities. The organizers, a lesbian group, were partly funded by our organization, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), which is a pan-African grant making foundation based in my home country, Ghana. After a few …

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My 10 Years of Living with HIV

The morning I was diagnosed with HIV was like most others. I had just left my hotel and was heading for the International convention center to attend the Fourth National AIDS conference in Nigeria. It was May 2004, 10 years ago this month. The day before, I had just given a presentation on HIV and …

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Nigerian Activist Chooses Exile Over Life In The Closet

TEN YEARS AGO, BISI ALIMI CAME OUT ON NATIONAL TELEVISION IN NIGERIA. HE SAYS THE MOVE ALIENATED HIM FROM HIS FAMILY AND FORCED HIM OUT OF THE COUNTRY. Listen To Interview > TRANSCRIPT MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Now we'd like to go back to …

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