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Quotes from AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark — Victoria Kakoko Sebagereka

1946–2021 Uganda

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It is a scourge and in Africa, it is putting the productive and reproductive edge at risk.

AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark (2021)

It finds women on their marriage beds, especially rural women.

AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark (2021)

The men go to the towns looking for work and when they come home, the women open their loving arms and everything else and they get it from their husbands.

AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark (2021)

Moreover, women transmit the virus when giving birth, and so have an especially important role to play in fighting the propagation of AIDS. “It is vital to target women through specific programs.

AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark (2021)

Inequalities between the sexes, societies and continents must be eliminated to halt the epidemic’s spread

AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark (2021)

But I hope and trust that you bear with me that for him it is a big thing to carry. He is carrying it for us, for you and me. And for generations to come

AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark (2021)

AIDS is considered a homosexual disease in developed countries, but it is a heterosexual disease in Africa and it affects us all. Everyone knows someone who is infected or has a family member who has died.

AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark (2021)

In many societies, women are facing serious social, economic, cultural, moral and religious barriers to access to information on the disease, to protective measures and to medication to slow it development in the event of contamination.

AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark (2021)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Victoria Kakoko Sebagereka (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.