Kampala Key, Vulnerable and Priority Populations (KVP) News

I had the opportunity to meet   Shawn Decker 25 years old at a National Conference in USA. I was so happy seeing the youth taking up responsibilities to talk, walk, act and do something about HIV Prevention.  It was spellbinding. I am so fortunate to work with many international HIV Care/Prevention Advocates/Activists.  When I came across this story in which he gives testimony about how he finally came to terms with a positive diagnosis. I am sure there are many younger people who read KGN.  So, I am sharing this story with all of you. For more, read.  "1996 was a pivotal year for me. At age 20, after being diagnosed with HIV for half of my life, I was finally ready to talk about the virus. What had been a difficult thing to think about and a subject I went out of my way to ignore was suddenly fair game. After a few months of feeling down for no reason that I could pinpoint, I woke up one day and I was just ready.  I was living...

What are the verbalised and non-verbalised concerns of the Person Living With HIV? What are the  verbalised and non-verbalised concerns of the provider? This is what this report seeks to bring to light. We hope it will inform your approach to caring for people living with HIV. Despite of ARVs being around for over 20 years, we still have untreated people living with HIV, we still have people living with HIV who cannot get full ARV doses, we still have people living with HIV with high viral load. We developed this report as an advocacy tool as well. We wanted to share a perspective whose narrative is not mainstream because other issues take up the agenda. Yet, the issues we raised here make up the bulk of work needed to eradicate AIDS in Uganda. This report concludes that there are four factors   (subjective motives) which are significant in determining viral suppression:  1.   The time one has taken ARVs;  2.   Optima...