Project Report
| Jan 5, 2018
Civil Society Engagement in Awareness Raising
By Mbabazi Busingye | Programs Manager
![Participant giving her views on curbing HIV/AIDS]()
Participant giving her views on curbing HIV/AIDS
Civil Society Participation in curbing the spread and prevalence of HIV/ AIDS especially amongst women is pivotal, This is so especially from awareness raisin and policy formulating , monitoring and implementation.
In this regard Human Rights First Rwanda Association was privileged to host 30 Civil Society Organizations working in health issues and Human Rights in General in order to share thoughts and strategies aimed at empowering women with HIV / AIDS .
Access to amenities such as treatment and counselling services by health providers was one of the issues raised and emphasized. Many Organizations pledged to have in place awareness tools so as to bridge the knowledge gap existing especially in the rural areas.
These Ideas were taken down and a weekly follow up would be done by the members of a taskforce on promoting the rights of women living with HIV/AIDS.
![Share on Twitter]()
![Share on Facebook]()
Oct 10, 2017
CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION IN COMBATING HIV/AIDS
By Mbabazi Busingye | Cordinator
![Sharing Views on Supporting Women With HIV/AIDS]()
Sharing Views on Supporting Women With HIV/AIDS
The prevalence of HIV/AIDS amongst women remains high especially for women in rural areas.
A cross section of stakeholders mainlyfrom Civil Society and non - state actors were invited to workshop including the media.
The workshop brouht together Ideas on suplimenting already existing strategies of empowering woen living with HIV AIDS.
Some of the outcomes of the workshop included the engagent with private sector for economic empowerment
Behavioral change as a strategy to foster sustainable advancement in the fight against HIV/AIDS
Sourcing for funding and financial support to enable advocacy of women with HIV/AIDS.
Civil society and Journalists present pledged to continue supporting one another hand in hand in promoting the rights of women living with HIV/AIDS
![Share on Twitter]()
![Share on Facebook]()
Jul 11, 2017
Training HIV positive people to be their own Human
By Mbabazi Busigye | Ms
In the absence of a comprehensive human rights response in Rwanda there are enormous violations of the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and a lack of awareness and understanding of human rights issues amongst HIV positive people.
It is against this background that we organized a two day workshop with HIV positive people to build their capacity on fighting stigma and discrimination in Kamonyi District.
The workshops were aimed at building the capacity of HIV positive people to respond to human rights violations.
The participants were trained in human rights documentation and also involved Human Rights Training Module and Information Kit for key representatives of people living with HIV/AIDS examining what human rights means in the context of AIDS, how to build it into their response, and strategies for networking for an HIV/AIDS human rights campaign.
LESSONS LEARNED: HIV positive people are best placed to monitor the abuses of the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, providing they are strongly linked to local non government organisations. It is possible to create effective, appropriate, user friendly advocacy tools which can be used to feedback human rights violations to NGOs and international human rights bodies.
![Share on Twitter]()
![Share on Facebook]()
