Michael Bbaale

Full time advocate, seasonal traveller and tourist

[U.S. Embassy Kampala, Uganda @USEmbassyUganda]

🇺🇸🇺🇬 Historic milestone! The U.S. & Uganda launched the Joint Health Steering Committee to oversee our 5-year, $2.3B health collaboration—$410M in Year One. Co-chaired by @USEmbassyUganda & Minister @JaneRuth_Aceng to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB & build health system resilience. 🇺🇸🇺🇬

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

#ONGOING

@MinofHealthUG, in collaboration with #ICWEA & @hepsuganda, convenes an Inception Meeting for the official launch of the “Engagement of Recipients of Care in Improving Services & Influencing Policies for Integrated Chronic Care Service Delivery in Ug” initiative.

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

The discussions unpacked how CLM is adapting to integrated health service delivery, & what this shift means for documenting community experiences & informing health system improvements.

Cc: @hepsuganda @MBKeno @MichaelOkot4 @Equator_Code @Hasunira

#CommunityActions4Change

[Michael Bbaale @Equator_Code]

@ICWEastAfrica @kyambogou @aidscommission @lmworeko @KiwumuloPa48601 @FacyAzizuyo @VictoriaKatamba @NabukeeraDoree2 @AdellaMbabazi @ChrismasMKhan @KyambogoGuild @PRUDENCEKANSII1 @julia_komujuni @bajonye This is a great initiative

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

Key discussions are highlighting how new & evolving forms of violence, including digital harm, coercive disclosure & harmful service practices, continue to shape the lived realities of WLHIV.

One key insight from the research: VAWG living with HIV is no longer confined to homes.

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

#ONGOING

Regional Knowledge-Sharing Hybrid Workshop sharing findings from a multi-country operational research on how new & evolving forms of #VAWG living with HIV are limiting their participation, leadership, & collective organising within feminist movements in Ug, Kenya, & TZ.

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

ICWEA, in partnership with @hepsuganda, today engaged communities beyond PLHIV to share perspectives & centre lived experiences in defining what health service delivery components must be monitored & improved amid integration.

#NothingForUsWithoutUs
#CommunityActions4Change

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

If @UNAIDS is no more, who tells the truth?

Who tracks stigma, shrinking prevention choices, & violence against W_GLHIV?

The HIV response cannot move forward by erasing communities.

Joins us: https://t.co/BURbcVk5nl to #ProtectUNAIDS.

Cc: @UNAIDS_UG

#NoSunsetting

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

These outreaches are designed to increase awareness, access, & uptake of #HIVPrevention options, especially the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring (DVR), PrEP, CAB-LA, condoms, cervical cancer screening & other integrated SRH services.

Cc: @ViiVHC | @Aidsfonds_intl
#ChoiceManifesto

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

This week, ICWEA kicks off community outreaches in Uganda & Kenya to boost awareness & access to #HIVPrevention options including the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring (DVR), PrEP, CAB-LA & more.
We are taking services closer to women & girls most at risk.

Let’s power informed choices.

[Michael Bbaale @Equator_Code]

There is always a reference to community led initiatives to drive desired change

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

ICWEA’s Deputy ED, Dorothy Namutamba joined partners in Nairobi for the Community Engagement Strategic Initiative (CE SI) Partners Meeting ahead of @GlobalFund GC8.

ICWEA is spotlighting community-led approaches that keep WLHIV at the centre, shaping community engagement.

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

ICWEA Executive Director @lmworeko joins the inaugural @GileadSciences Prevention CAB meeting & the #CommUnityVision2025 convening in Amsterdam, Netherlands — the first to unite the HIV & Oncology communities.

Cc: @UNAIDS @GlobalFund

#HIVPrevention | #ChoiceManifesto

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

"Ending violence against WLHIV is not an act of charity, it’s a matter of justice."

@AngelKyakunzire calls for solidarity in ending new & evolving forms of violence.

Join the conversation tomorrow: 30 Oct | 3 PM EAT

Register 👇🏾https://t.co/zvyRE8VQms

#NameItToEndIt | #EndVAW

[Michael Bbaale @Equator_Code]

@nmugerwa8 @mandyug One takes another brings

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

#HappeningNow

ICWEA & @hepsuganda, as a consortium, are hosting a CSO validation meeting on findings from a rapid assessment of integrated health care services to strengthen HIV & TB prevention & care.

Cc: @UNAIDS_UG @UNAIDS
@jtmakokha

#CommunityActions4Change

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

Happening Now!

ICWEA, @icw_kenya & DWWT, with support from @UNTrustFundEVAW, are hosting a regional convening in Dar es Salaam, TZ.

The convening brings together WLHIV, feminists, grassroots orgs & activists to build a movement to #EndVAW_G.

Cc: @UN_Women

#NameItToEndIt

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

Every 2 minutes, a girl or young woman contracts HIV—often linked to sexual violence.

E.A bears the brunt, with Uganda among the 11 countries hardest hit by GBV.
(Source: @UNAIDS)

Read more ⬇️ in @dailynewstz by @SuzieKindars

Cc: @UNTrustFundEVAW

#WeThrive | #EndVAWG

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

With the U.S. cutting global HIV funding, the future of the HIV response is at risk!

Treatment disruptions & rising infections. Gov'ts & partners must act now to sustain life saving programs.

Read our report on the impact this has had on communities: 👉 https://t.co/r1OB8RyLjd

[Michael Bbaale @Equator_Code]

@ICWEastAfrica @lmworeko @iasociety @hepsuganda @apha_sa @WACIHealth @AuntyPoz @NAFOPHANU @MBKeno @aidscommission @UNYPA1 @CentreforWomen2 @OwomugishaImmac Your unwavering love for the community will never go unnoticed, congrats @lm

[ICWEAAt20 @ICWEastAfrica]

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In her closing remarks at the @PEPFAR partners & stakeholders meeting, @BPeluth, ICWEA's Programme Director, emphasized insights from #CLM highlighting urgent gaps: non-suppression among children, expectant mothers, & increased seroconversion rates.

#CLMUganda