When a child doesn’t obey his parents, he’s punished, either openly or subtly, as long as he learns his lesson. The U.S. suspended its $400 million program for Uganda, because the country had decided not to obey.<\/p>\n
American officials have postponed a meeting in Uganda on the East African country’s HIV program. They said they needed time to “assess the impact of the anti-homosexuality bill” soon to be passed in Uganda. The bill, one of the toughest of its kind in the world, was passed by the Ugandan Parliament on March 21 and sent to President Yoweri Museveni for approval. But he sent it back, asking for changes that he would mitigate to some extent. It was for this reason that PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which spends up to $400 billion a year in Uganda, informed its Ugandan partner on April 25 that a meeting had been postponed due to the imminent potential signing of the bill.<\/p>\n