HIV Health and Wellness

Nigeria: Defending Human Rights, Protecting against Violence, Preventing HIV/AIDS

Policymakers, donors, and implementers must place greater emphasis on the integration of services to prevent and mitigate the effects of violence into health programming and to create an enabling environment for key populations to access healthcare services and reduce their vulnerabilities to human rights violations, and therefore their risk of contracting HIV.

Uganda: Born neither male nor female, a tale of raising an intersex

“The doctor told me that I had delivered an intersex baby and after explaining to me what this meant, he advised me to take it to Mulago National Referral Hospital for surgery. To say I was shocked is an understatement. I did not know whether my child would survive,’’ Shamira Namaganda recalls.