On Feb 7, legislators in the Ugandan Parliament reintroduced a controversial bill that would in effect legislate hate against the Ugandan lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex community.
The proposed bill, known as the Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB), would compel families, doctors, and counselors to report on all those suspected of being members of the LGBTI community, and would impose criminal sanctions, possibly even the death penalty, for those who fail to turn in their fellow citizens. Combined with other proposed legislation before the Parliament, like portions of the HIV/AIDS Prevention Control Bill, the AHB would also hinder Uganda's HIV-prevention efforts, contributing to the alarming rise in HIV infection rates.
President Yoweri Museveni's government insists that they do not back the bill and that it was reintroduced by a backbencher, but also says "As Uganda is a constitutional democracy, it is appropriate that if a private member's bill is presented to parliament it be debated".
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