My lovely people, you may wonder how I spend my World AIDS Day. Although on the first of December I was in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with the PrEpNu outreach team to share information about PrEP at an LGBTQIA+ refugee event organised by COC the Netherlands, my heart was full of excitement of what was happening in Gihanga in Burundi.
In my home country Burundi there are 13.24 million people of which 2.9% are living with HIV. This means 383,000 people! Many of them still do not have reliable access to HIV treatment and HIV stigma and prejudices are still widespread throughout Burundi. That's not cool!!! Continue reading...
