By Emmy Kageha Igonya
Igonya is a medical anthropologist (PhD) at the African Population and Health Research Center, where she co-leads work on sexuality, gender, and inclusion in the Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH) Unit. Her research interests span HIV, patient care and support groups, sexual reproductive health rights, key populations, sex work, drug use and women empowerment.
Emmy Igonya says: “I don’t get this hostility and backlash against LGBTQIA+ people. I don’t understand what those driving such acts stand for, except making fellow human beings feel terror for being alive.”
