Milly Katana
Milly Katana is a Ugandan public health professional with strong experience and commitment to expanding the role of people living with HIV/AIDS in prevention, care, support and treatment programmes. Milly, who is HIV positive, was a founder of Health Rights Action Group-Uganda and is currently Country Director for the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Uganda.
"True HIV heroes"
With the increased availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) there are now many more people living with HIV in Uganda. As a result, the challenges to dealing with AIDS are now are very different to those we faced when HIV was first discovered 25 years ago. I have been living with HIV for 20 years, and as the epidemic has evolved, so has the activism and approaches taken in response to the virus. With more people now taking treatment, there are new challenges - especially in the areas of treatment adherence (people taking their ARV medication correctly) and positive prevention, as health services are overstretched and burdened with critical staff shortages. ...
