Opinion piece by Micheal Ighodaro, a global health and human rights leader, Executive Director of Global Black Gay Men Connect, and filmmaker
There has been no announcement, no official directive from donors or international agencies. No memo declaring that certain communities should disappear from the conversation. And yet, if you spend enough time in global health meetings or reading the language of new policy documents, you begin to notice a shift. Certain words are becoming harder to say.
Not HIV. Not prevention. Not treatment.
The words that now seem to make people most uncomfortable are simpler than that: gay men.
Particularly when the conversation turns to Africa.
Read the full opinion piece here.
Source : Micheal Ighodaro | Substack
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