{"id":23167,"date":"2025-03-04T04:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23167"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:26:27","slug":"where-being-gay-is-punishable-by-death-aid-cuts-are-heartbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23167","title":{"rendered":"Where Being Gay Is Punishable by Death, Aid Cuts Are \u2018Heartbreaking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uganda\u2019s L.G.B.T.Q. population was already struggling to cope with the fallout of a harsh anti-gay law when the disruption of U.S. aid put people at even greater risk.<\/p>\n

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In the weeks since President Trump signed an executive order dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, Andrea Minaj Casablanca\u2019s phone has been inundated with desperate pleas for help.<\/p>\n

A counselor who works with nonprofits catering to members of Uganda\u2019s embattled L.G.B.T.Q. population<\/a>, she has fielded urgent requests from people seeking H.I.V. medications, therapy sessions and shelter in the wake of Mr. Trump\u2019s executive order. Ms. Casablanca responded to these calls while grappling with her own crisis: being fired from a job that was funded by U.S.A.I.D.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur whole world has been turned upside down,\u201d Ms. Casablanca, a 25-year-old transgender woman, said on a recent afternoon in Kampala, the capital. \u201cEveryone is in fear of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

L.G.B.T.Q. people in Uganda have in recent years endured an intensifying crackdown in this conservative East African nation. President Yoweri Museveni signed<\/a> a law in 2023 that calls for life imprisonment<\/a> for anyone who engages in same-sex relations in Uganda and up to a decade in prison for anyone who tries to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Now, activists say, the U.S.A.I.D. cuts have put them at even greater risk, with shelters underfunded, hundreds of individuals unemployed and many more facing discrimination and violence. Vital medical supplies remain scarce, while members of L.G.B.T.Q. groups increasingly report feeling depressed or suicidal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Andrea Minaj Casablanca, a transgender woman and peer educator, in Kampala, Uganda. Her work, which focuses on providing health education and support to L.G.B.T.Q. individuals, has been severely affected by recent U.S. funding cuts.<\/span>Stuart Tibaweswa for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Uganda\u2019s L.G.B.T.Q. population was already struggling to cope with the fallout of a harsh anti-gay law when the disruption of U.S. aid put people at even greater risk.In the weeks since President Trump signed an executive order dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, Andrea Minaj Casablanca\u2019s phone has been inundated with desperate pleas for help.A counselor who works with nonprofits catering to members of Uganda\u2019s embattled L.G.B.T.Q. population, she has fielded urgent requests from people seeking H.I.V. medications, therapy sessions and shelter in the wake of Mr. Trump\u2019s executive order. Ms. Casablanca responded to these calls while grappling with her own crisis: being fired from a job that was funded by U.S.A.I.D.\u201cOur whole world has been turned upside down,\u201d Ms. Casablanca, a 25-year-old transgender woman, said on a recent afternoon in Kampala, the capital. \u201cEveryone is in fear of the future.\u201dL.G.B.T.Q. people in Uganda have in recent years endured an intensifying crackdown in this conservative East African nation. President Yoweri Museveni signed a law in 2023 that calls for life imprisonment for anyone who engages in same-sex relations in Uganda and up to a decade in prison for anyone who tries to.Now, activists say, the U.S.A.I.D. cuts have put them at even greater risk, with shelters underfunded, hundreds of individuals unemployed and many more facing discrimination and violence. Vital medical supplies remain scarce, while members of L.G.B.T.Q. groups increasingly report feeling depressed or suicidal.Andrea Minaj Casablanca, a transgender woman and peer educator, in Kampala, Uganda. Her work, which focuses on providing health education and support to L.G.B.T.Q. individuals, has been severely affected by recent U.S. funding cuts.Stuart Tibaweswa for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23169,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23170,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23167\/revisions\/23170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}