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Uganda LGBTQ law “risks HIV/AIDS progress”
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws. The UN has said it could roll back years of progress on HIV/AIDS.
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(Photo: Lubrication, condoms, and PrEP are given to a transgender sex worker at a LGBTQ sympathetic clinic in Kampala, Uganda. Credit: Luke Dray/Getty Images).
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