Rwanda

Malawi appears to be following Uganda’s and Rwanda’s lead on virulent homophobia with the arrest of two men charged with “carnal knowledge of a person against the order of nature.”

Yes, I mean Rwanda, and yes, indeed yet another country in sub-Saharan Africa--one which has made such vast progress from the genocide of a decade ago--appears ready to vote to criminalize the existence of a whole class of people.

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Just months after the Pope denounced
condom use in Africa, Rwanda’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament Dr. Jean
Damascene Ntawukuriryayo said that the answer to his country’s high
fertility rate, paired with a 52 percent poverty rate, is helping his
people to drop the stigma attached to condoms.

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This year Rwanda's proposal to the Global Fund integrates HIV prevention with its National Reproductive Health Policy, setting an important precedent for other donors and countries.