A huge thank you to @IbuUganda  for supporting the TYI-Uganda Drop-In Center with essential medicines and basic health commodities. This support strengthens our capacity to continue providing accessible, confidential, affirming, and community-led SRHR and essential health services to the communities we serve. For many rural transgender and gender-diverse people, access to respectful and non-discriminatory healthcare remains a challenge. Community-led spaces such as our Drop-In Center therefore play an important role in ensuring people can access the health information, commodities, services, and referrals they need in an environment that respects their dignity and confidentiality. We deeply appreciate Ibu Ice Breakers Uganda for recognizing the importance of investing directly in community-led health responses. These essential medicines and commodities will help strengthen the services available through our DIC and support our continued efforts to bring healthcare closer to our communities. Are you in Mbarara or neighboring districts? Our Drop-In Center is here for you. Reach out to TYI-Uganda to access FREE SRHR services, essential health commodities, information, and referrals in a safe, respectful, and affirming environment. Partnerships that put resources directly into communities make a difference. #TYIUganda #SRHR #TransHealth #CommunityHealth #Mbarara #HealthForAll

She wakes up every day knowing the world was not built for her. And she steps into it anyway. In a small rural community in Uganda, being transgender isn't just an identity. It's a daily negotiation. Which health facility might actually treat you with dignity, and which will turn you away? Whether today is a day your community feels safe, or one where you keep your head down. What it costs to carry a dream when the systems around you are designed to interrupt it. And still she persists. They persist. We persist. Today is Trans Day of Visibility. We are not here for symbolic visibility. Not the kind that lives in hashtags and organisational statements and dies by midnight. For many transgender and gender-diverse people in rural Uganda, visibility comes with real risk. Being seen is not always safe. What we need, what we are demanding, is not just to be seen. It is to be protected. Included. Respected. At TYI-Uganda, we see this every day. The resilience. The strength. But also the gaps in healthcare, in livelihoods, in justice that keep failing our communities. So today, we shift: From visibility to accountability. From recognition to rights. From survival to dignity. Rural trans people are human, not in theory. In lived reality. Our identities are valid. Our rights are non-negotiable. Until dignity, safety, healthcare, livelihoods, and justice reach everyone, our work is not done. Our existence is not up for debate. It is resistance. It is power. It is true. #TransDayOfVisibility #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransLives #InclusionForAll #TYIUganda

The State of Trans SRHR in Uganda 2026 Conference Day 1 | Community Building Day — “Knowing Ourselves.” Before we faced the stakeholders, we faced each other. On March 4, trans and gender-diverse people from Central, Western, Eastern, and Northern Uganda gathered in a closed, safe space for the first time to map our health realities across HIV, TB, malaria, and SRHR. We mapped what happens when a trans person walks into a health facility in every region of this country. We explored the barriers disease by disease, region by region. We shared models that are already effective in our communities. And in the Storytelling Circle, some of us shared experiences we had never spoken aloud in a public space before. By the end of the day, we had reached a consensus. We agreed on our priority asks to the Ministry of Health, what we are prepared to contribute, and selected community presenters to carry our evidence into the stakeholder room the next morning. Day 1 was the foundation. “This conference was the first time in Uganda that trans and gender-diverse people from every region sat in one room, documented our health realities, and presented that evidence directly to the people who run the programmes that are supposed to serve us. That has never happened before. We have never had a national platform to say: this is what HIV access looks like for us, this is what TB looks like, this is what malaria looks like, this is what SRHR looks like. Now we do. And it was built entirely by the community — our evidence, our voices, our asks.” — Nana Millers, Executive Director, TYI-Uganda This work is implemented under the Gender Equality Fund, an initiative established by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in partnership with GSK and ViiV Healthcare to support gender-transformative and community-led health responses. #TransHealthUganda #TransSRHR #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #TransRightsAreHealthRights #95-95-95 #GlobalFund #CommunityLed #TYIUganda

Last week, we made history. TYI-Uganda, in collaboration with @transforumug and @UKPC_UG hosted THE STATE OF TRANS SRHR IN UGANDA 2026, the first national conference in Uganda to address trans health across HIV, TB, malaria, and SRHR. 4–5 March | Kampala Trans and gender-diverse people from all four regions of Uganda came together to document health barriers, share what’s working, and build consensus on what we need from the health system. Our evidence. Our voices. Our asks. On Day 2, we presented our findings directly to UNAIDS, Ministry of Health program leads, TASO Uganda, HRAPF, and development partners. For the first time, trans and gender-diverse communities sat at the table with the program leaders and spoke with one voice. What we produced: • The first community-generated evidence base on trans health in Uganda • Regional findings from Central, Western, Eastern, and Northern Uganda • Priority recommendations to MoH across HIV, TB, malaria, and SRHR • A Community Position Paper (coming soon) There is no disaggregated data on trans health in Uganda. Not in HIV, not in TB, and not in malaria.That changes now. Thank you to our partners: @UKPC_UG @hrapf_uganda, Ark Wellness Hub, Ice Breakers Uganda, Alive Medical Services,UHAI-EASHRI, LINK Partners, and every trans and gender-diverse institution that showed up. And to every trans and gender-diverse person who shared their story, you are the reason this exists. This is not the end; it is the beginning. Follow-up is in progress. The Community Position Paper will be released within four weeks. Accountability reviews will occur at 1, 3, and 6 months. This work is implemented under the Gender Equality Fund, an initiative established by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in partnership with GSK and ViiVHealthcare to support gender-transformative and community-led health responses. Nothing about us, without us. #TransHealthUganda #TransSRHR #95-95-95 #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #GlobalFund #TransRightsAreHealthRights