The United States should reconsider funding anti-HIV/AIDS strategies in Uganda, where recipients of such money violate the rights of homosexuals, Human Rights Watch has said.
The New York-based watchdog group said Ugandan officials and the media have intensified attacks on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, in a letter to US officials Thursday.
It said a prominent anti-condom and anti-gay pastor, whose church has received US funding for a so-called "abstinence and fidelity programmes" for the fight against AIDS, listed the names and pictures of gay rights campaigners on a website.
Also, a local tabloid last month published the first names, workplaces and other details of 39 alleged homosexuals -- all men -- under a banner headline "Homo Terror" and promised to "name and shame top gays in the city."
As in much of Africa, homosexuality is illegal, and in Uganda it is punishable by imprisonment up to life.
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