Ensuring full access to Reproductive Health services and information will encourage smart life choices. Awareness and prevention is the stronghold of Droty Uganda’s fight against HIV/AIDS.
The first HIV/AIDS case in Uganda was found in Rakai district. Kyotera district was in 2017 curved out of Rakai district. Characteristically, these districts are poverty stricken and reported with higher HIV/AIDS prevalence (12%) young people being the most affected. More behavioural challenges are unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, transactional and cross-generational sex that are grossly exploitative, especially for the girl child.
Women of Destiny
We have made it our job to train girls to make their own reusable sanitary pads to keep in school.
Thousands of girls and women in Uganda have their periods every month. However, taboos associated with menstruation combined with an overall culture of silence and socio-economic hardships limits the ability of women and girls to fully and equally participate in society, undermining their overall social status and self-esteem while putting their health at risk.