{"id":2179,"date":"2012-09-01T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:33:13","slug":"transitioning-africa-ta-meets-with-the-usaid-africa-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/transitioning-africa-ta-meets-with-the-usaid-africa-bureau\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 \u2014 Transitioning Africa (TA) Meets with the USAID Africa Bureau, Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2012, the three directors of the Transitioning Africa (TA) coalition met in Nairobi with Dr Chloe Schwenke from the <a href=\"https:\/\/2012-2017.usaid.gov\/who-we-are\/organization\/bureaus\/bureau-africa\">USAID Africa Bureau<\/a>. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss support from the U.S. Agency that would culminate in an African Blueprint for the Provision of Comprehensive Care for Trans Persons, similar to the Blueprint in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the meeting, TA sent a letter to the USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development), with a proposal to form a partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO). TA suggested that this proposed partnership would collectively work on developing a model appropriate to African realities, creating a Blueprint for Transgender and Intersex Health Care for sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Transitioning-Africa-meets-with-Cloe-Swenke-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Transitioning Africa meets with Cloe Swenke\" class=\"wp-image-2891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Transitioning-Africa-meets-with-Cloe-Swenke-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Transitioning-Africa-meets-with-Cloe-Swenke-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Transitioning-Africa-meets-with-Cloe-Swenke-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Transitioning-Africa-meets-with-Cloe-Swenke-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Transitioning-Africa-meets-with-Cloe-Swenke-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Transitioning-Africa-meets-with-Cloe-Swenke-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From Left to Right: Barbra Wangare Muruga, Liesl Theron, Tom Mukumbi, Tebogo Nkoana, Cloe Swenke, Julius Kaggwa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three directors of the Transitioning Africa (TA) coalition met in Nairobi with Dr Chloe Schwenke from the USAID Africa Bureau. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss support from the U.S. Agency that would culminate in an African Blueprint for the Provision of Comprehensive Care for Trans Persons, similar to the Blueprint in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting, TA sent a letter to the USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development), with a proposal to form a partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO). TA suggested that this proposed partnership would collectively work on developing a model appropriate to African realities, creating a Blueprint for Transgender and Intersex Health Care for sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,34],"tags":[163,54,53,93,96],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-trans-and-intersex","tag-gdx","tag-gender-dynamix","tag-kenya","tag-transgender-and-intersex-africa","tag-transitioning-africa-ta"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transintersexhistory.africa\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}