The young mothers at NACWOLA head office with a volunteer from VSO teaching the various skills
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- National Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Uganda (NACWOLA) is a national NGO of women living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. It is operating in 30 districts of Uganda. In July 1992, a group of women from 27 countries worldwide met at the 8th international conference in Amsterdam Netherlands. At this conference, the women founded the International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS (ICW). This network was founded in response to desperate lack of information available to HIV positive women at the time, which propagated a profound sense of isolation. At this important conference, three HIV positive women represented Uganda. These were late Catharine Etyanga, Margaret Nalumasi and Cate Naluja. On retuning home, these women realized the need to form a network that would unite HIV+ Women nationally; hence, they founded NACWOLA in 1992 and has since grown rapidly to a national network with membership of over 40,000 women spread in 30 districts where it is operating at both community and national levels raising awareness of HIV/AIDS issues and promoting stigma reduction programmes using a rights-based approach.
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