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Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu

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Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu is an openDemocracy East Africa investigative reporting fellow.

Illustration: Inge Snip
CONVERSION THERAPY

East Africa’s ‘lucrative’ conversion therapy industry

A six-month investigation reveals ‘degrading and discriminatory’ treatment at health centres in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

  • Lydia Namubiru, The Continent
  • Rael Ombuor
  • Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu
10 min read
Outreach: Esther (centre), a staff member of the nongovernmental organisation Lady Mermaid’s Bureau, which advocates for the human rights of female and bisexual sex workers, distributes items to those who have been hard hit by the lockdown in Uganda. (Sumy Sadurni/AFP)
ACTIVISM
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Sex workers abandoned as Covid-19 crackdowns undo Africa’s HIV efforts

Controlling Covid-19 may worsen Africa’s HIV epidemic by stopping state and civil society health services built up over 35 years

  • Lydia Namubiru, The Continent
  • Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu
  • Kerry Cullinan
8 min read
Girls read an educational book at an adolescent youth center in Uganda. The girls are offered critical life skills training to help them manage socail issues. Low contraceptive usage has fuelled fertility with 59% of girls pregnant by the age of 20. (Neil Thomas/Corbis via Getty Images)
ASSOCIATION FOR LIFE AFRICA
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Inside Uganda’s controversial ‘pregnancy crisis centres’, where contraception is discouraged

Undercover investigation shows that controversial US-linked centres are defying government policy and providing inaccurate medical information

  • Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu
  • Lydia Namubiru, The Continent
10 min read