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Patience Akumu wrote about life - and death - of homosexual activists for five years at the Observer Kampala. Here's how the ruins of his country deeply rooted discrimination

never wanted to write about gay rights in Uganda. The only question that crept over me, and I failed to hear the cries of battered women and holding the hands of children who die.

is faceless, mysterious, disturbing labeled gay in my skirts and called my heart to find their way. I watched for a while and I knew it would be cruel to move again. I never wanted to give up the possibility of a lucrative career in law just to be a defender of the damned and rejected - and be rejected and cursed myself. I never intended to spend two hours in front of my computer, thinking of ways to explain why the heck I get with homosexuality only to break the heart of my brothers, Let my father and my boyfriend worry for my mother because her daughter and pity.

homosexuality is illegal in Uganda and in 2009 a bill that proposes the death penalty for certain homosexual acts was presented to Parliament, highlighting the brutal government sanctioned discrimination against sexual minorities ruined my country.

I found the gay question 22, fresh law graduate young journalist eager to make their mark and are willing to do jobs that no journalist wanted to do. It was a world where everything was fine, even heroic, to challenge the decades of the regime and its forms in other things. If your unit has been overwritten or slept in prison to cover a riot, social media week will sing your praise and proudly share pictures of your challenge.

But heaven help you if you wrote about homosexuals, unless of course he condemned the devastation they cause in the culture and religion. Or "investigate" how are infiltrating schools, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, causing fistulae and forcibly recruit children to join a "gay army".

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other would immediately be regarded with suspicion: "Are you gay you Butabika Is it necessary to visit [psychiatric hospital] whites are paid to do this"

But homosexuality looked everyone in the face. A comment here and there to make a law saying that it was a matter of human rights, a brief article in the newspaper about a homosexual who had disappeared, a call from a minister who believed that homosexuals should leave the country, hard sex with masks and appearing on television and threatening police with arrest. Who were these people? For a long time when I thought that homosexuals only saw the masks and the innocent children who have been expelled from high school for allegedly being gay.

whole was banned and exciting territory, and I went into a corner without a care in the world - that's the kind of story that the average house was ready to publish, then why not? I still remember my first meeting with gay rights activist Frank Mugisha and Pepe Onziema in a restaurant near my workplace. I took a friend along this "dangerous" work. Share chips (my friend told me that the worst part of the interview was to have room with homosexuals) and we talked about many things I had heard in the category of human rights in University - the right to equality, non-discrimination, privacy.

also talked about things I had never imagined. Gays and lesbians have been raped, sometimes with sticks, the parents had banned their children to be gay and now children threatened suicide. A father had tried to conquer the death of his daughter lesbian couple. No doubt, these are the things that the media should cover! All the stories of women and the rights of children he had written to me had become a voice for the voiceless, who loved nothing NGOs call for human rights related to the cause of my "refreshing" and journalism "care."

For me, embracing gay rights was simply an extension of the good work. I did not expect emails hatred, vile insults Facebook or face to face messages. No one told me there would be no suspicious glances from colleagues, friends lost and severe warnings not write many gay stories, as it could affect the circulation of newspapers. And nobody told me that having a baby would make me even more disgusting - hypocritical campaign for the rights of homosexuals, when she has a husband Until I had a baby, I do not care if everyone thought I was gay, as long as I knew I was doing the right thing (and professional).

My boyfriend, while supporting warns always underestimate the dangers of my job. My blind passion, I hate that our society is not ready to hear my message.

Sometimes, before arriving home, I think his warnings, stroking my degree and play with the idea of ??applying for a job in law. I dream of a life where I'm a hero easy - just talk about women and children who all agree, they deserve better. One in which I give to homosexuals because, well, why should I care? I'm not gay and I have no gay parents (at least not that I know). They will survive, homosexuals. I'm sure. Days like this, I'm going to bed with a determination: I'll be damned if I write a story about homosexuality


But then comes the morning with the story of a gay man beaten. Or text Frank told me that one of the gay people I visited died of AIDS and that there are many more to follow in their wake.

Yes, the morning comes with headlines asking Ugandans to "hang" and nobody seems to care. A phone call gay NGO "Patience this patient" ... You can not leave me alone? I realize that, unlike me, you can not just wake up one day and away from the issue of homosexuality.

My story the past five years has been the story of their lives and deaths. Again, I can hear myself and I know that this is a story that must be told. And if I do not say that the world could do the job for my country. And once again that we are the worst place to be gay. And we're not, really. There is a big misunderstanding.
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a standardized protocol and diagnostic tests accelerate the development and distribution of drugs and provide faster treatment

On July 13, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) has announced its ambition to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) to 15 million people infected with HIV / AIDS to 2015 (compared to a total of 9.7 million in 2012). The new framework has been published in the back of the new guidelines recommend that patients begin treatment before the WHO.

More specifically, the guidelines have raised the CD4 threshold where art should be prescribed blood of 350 cells/mm3 and 500 cells/mm3. CD4 cells are white blood cells attacked by HIV, his account gives an indication of the state of the immune system of an individual and the progression of the disease

CD4 are essential to achieve the objective of UNAIDS, particularly in Africa, where HIV prevalence is high, but the test is not widely available in countries with poor health .

In Malawi, for example, only 10% of health centers offer CD4. The situation is very similar to other parts of the continent and millions of people are waiting for their CD4 count.

The introduction of point of care testing decentralized, which can be used in environments with limited resources for health care workers in low-skilled, could significantly increase coverage. In Mozambique, the introduction of point of care CD4 in primary care clinics has doubled the number of patients receiving antiretroviral therapy and halved the time required for patients to begin treatment.

The problem is that this kind of point of care diagnostics are kind of blind spot when it comes to regulation. "We have a very good framework for drug regulation, but there is a gap in the diagnosis," says Jani Ilesh, director of the National Institute of Sa?de (National Health Service) in Mozambique. "There is a diagnostic log, similar to the drugs, but not really a good regulatory function."

Instead, the government decided to have a diagnosis on an ad hoc basis, which leaves the sector vulnerable to lobbying and poor quality products, says Jani.

The reason for this regulatory oversight is that the point of care diagnostics is a relatively recent phenomenon, says Brenda Moon, coordinator of market dynamics with UNITAID funding for global health. Originally developed and approved in developed countries and developing countries to take. "Now there's a lot of innovation in the diagnosis specifically designed for use in the poorest countries - products that are portable, point of care, and can be used by health workers in the community," says the Moon. "The bad news is that we have a complete system to ensure the quality of these products." attempt to fill this gap, UNITAID has decided to give $ 5 million to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to create a harmonized regulatory framework for diagnosis in Africa.

therefore contribute to the establishment of the Working Group for the Harmonization Pan (PAHWP), an organization that will create a harmonized regulatory framework among its members. Currently, there are eight Member States: the East African Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi), Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa. PAHWP held its first meeting on July 24 and a number of other Community Development in West Africa and South Africa have already expressed their interest in joining. Industry representatives were also invited to participate in discussions.
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has its own regulatory body, the Working Group on Harmonization of Asia for nearly two decades, so PAHWP takes stock of the experience of its Asian counterpart. Much of the work is in the process of rationalization and standardization such as recording, post-marketing monitoring product quality audits, etc., but the heart of the negotiations is the issue of clinical trials.

"Because of the lack of regulation, even small countries insist on national approved devices' data, says Peel." The first test point service that was marketed for CD4 count had to do 60 tests, is completely untenable, "said
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a photo of my people, here are some places that the company could use to attract tourists ...

is often a favorite bars in the news. Electric wine supplier of three floors and food in Cork city (try the burger black pudding) scored a hit after a photo taken on the balcony next to the river was used in an advertisement for Ryanair a French newspaper Tagged as Dublin.

students with eagle eyes geography realized that Cork and Dublin are different places, separated by 160 miles and centuries of mutual distrust, negative of the Dubliners' to accept that the cork is best in town ("Have you heard about the Corkman with the inferiority complex?" goes the joke. "He thought it was the same as everyone else.").

According to the Irish Examiner, Ryanair deputy chief executive Michael Cawley said deception. "We know that this is an image of Cork, but there is nothing more beautiful in Dublin and Cork, so we used to try to get French passengers flying in Dublin."

Cawley is Cork. How am I

could spend the rest of the piece to delight with the wonders of the People's Republic of Cork - our smile, ready, children, sweet and melodious voice our hills, but I guess you already know that. Instead, let's talk about the wonders of Dublin. Follow me, dear reader, and visit the places of interest that Ryanair might be used to illustrate the delights of the city aul 'Dublin.

started our journey in O'Connell Street, a pleasant boulevard / stretch of highway plonked in the center of the capital of 42 channels. Marvel at the Ann Summers shop, opened in 1999, a true precursor Celtic Tiger and all that accompanies it (Humvees, farms and ghosts as false). Here's "The Spire" a piercing arrow 398ft sky, a symbol of modernity thrust Dublin (or cynics suggest, heroin is paralyzed parts of the city). Pop in the luxurious surroundings of Burdocks for a traditional lunch Dublin tea chips and brown sauce pressed on it ("Fuckin delicious!" As Colin Farrell Dublin say).

On the road, here the canal bank where Patrick Kavanagh sat down and wrote his greatest work, God Dublin Grim but at least it is Monaghan.

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