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| | After going through HIV and AIDS counselling with a YWCA community worker, I decided to go for an HIV test and the results came back HIV positive. |
| | Being born in the Bwaise, Saint Francis, a slum area of Kampala city, with 17,000 inhabitants, and highly burdened by HIV and AIDS, I know the living standards of women and girls. Many young girls join street sex workers in order to meet their material and financial needs. In order to respond to the needs of young people in my community, I founded Tusitukirewamu (united we stand) YWCA youth club. | |  |
| | | Realising that sex work can place women in situations that leads to HIV and AIDS, Tusitukirewamu started sensitising this group of young girls about HIV and AIDS. Most of them are young mothers between the age of 15-25. Currently, we have a team of about 70 sex workers in the youth club and through the YWCA we offer training in vocational skills to help them identify different avenues of earning an income. |
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| | As an activist, I have managed to network and link the youth club team with other stakeholders such as The AIDS Support Organisation, ActionAid and Herbalists, all of whom provide Antiretroviral (ARV) medication, treatment for opportunistic infections, food and other material support and services.
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