Health Care Workers Must Out LGBT Ugandans, According to New Guidelines

[William769]

The recently revised draft guidelines for Ugandan health workers who may encounter LGBT people essentially requires those health care workers to out LGBT Ugandans.


The latest revision of draft guidelines for Ugandan health care workers who may encounter LGBT people set a dangerous precedent that essentially requires those health care providers to report anyone who admits to being gay.

Signed by Uganda's director general of health services, the April revision of the "Draft Guidelines for Health Workers Regarding Health Services for Homosexuals," makes Ugandan health workers the "frontline enforcers of the newly passed Anti-Homosexuality Act," according to BuzzFeed, which obtained a copy of the draft policy.

"The purpose of these guidelines is to clarify to health workers how to handle clients and patients involved in homosexual activities," reads the draft, "but not to promote acts of homosexuality."

After claiming that LGBT Ugandans have a fundamental right to medical care and privacy surrounding that care, the guidelines note a health care worker may "break confidentiality" when the person seeking care is a minor, when someone has been "sodomized," if the patient has a "compromised" mental status, or is guilty of "aggravated homosexuality" as defined by the Anti-Homosexuality Act.

http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/04/24/health-care-workers-must-out-lgbt-ugandans-according-new-guidelines

This is starting to sound a little to familiar.

[Cha]

1. this is horrible for those poor people in Uganda! What an

awful nightmare!

thank you for shining light on it, William~

[William769]

2. Good thing I'm using energizer batteries.

Got to keep that light shining brightly.

I think of the people in Uganda everyday and all I can do is cry.

[Cha]

3. It's a brilliant job

you're doing, buddy.

[William769]

4. I have a lot of help from my friends.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. It gets worse there every day.

The Bishops are using rhetoric worthy of the Third Reich. So is the government.