Zero discrimination day statement: A healthy community is a productive community

For Immediate Release : 1st March 2024, Kampala, Uganda “To protect everyone's health, protect everyone's rights”[1] is 2024’s theme for the Zero Discrimination Day.  Zero Discrimination Day which is commemorated…

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Call for Nominations – Uganda Country FIERCE Awards 2023

Under the theme "Recognizing your contributions: inspiring young women leaders," the 2023 ICWEA FIERCE Campaign Awards will recognize and celebrate the lives of women living with HIV at all levels, inspiring young women to take up leadership positions and build the movement of women beyond borders.

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Save Lives; Decriminalize HIV! End all forms of Discrimination that impact on the quality of lives, health, and well-being of women and girls living with HIV in Eastern Africa

I am a person who lost my parents before I was 6 years old. I tested positive for HIV two years after my mother passed away. I started working as a maid in my uncle’s home…” narrated Sarah Najjemba (not real name) a resident of Bukwiri, Kyankwanzi district. She continued to say that all her parents’ property was sold off and yet the money did not even take her to school.

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ICW FAMILY WELCOMES FINDINGS BY THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA THAT THE FORCED STERILIZATION OF A WOMAN LIVING WITH HIV IS DISCRIMINATION!

After an 8-year wait, women living with HIV who have been fighting to achieve justice for forced and coerced sterilization have been handed a major win by the High Court of Kenya. The court has ruled that a healthcare provider had forced a woman living with HIV to undergo tubal ligation without her consent

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