Uganda - On Valentine’s Day (14/2) IOM will distribute half a million condoms to health clinics located in HIV “hotspots” along transport corridors and in fishing villages in Uganda. Over three hundred sex workers trained as peer educators will later distribute condoms to their peers and through their networks.

The sex workers have been trained to support community health promotion efforts, especially focusing on HIV prevention under a plan to reach over 100,000 people, including fishermen, truckers and local communities in HIV hotspots, all of whom are classified as key populations at higher risk of HIV exposure.

These mobile populations are mainly characterized by high risk sexual behaviours such as multiple concurrent partnerships and inconsistent condom use.

The project: “Migrant-friendly Healthcare” is funded by the Partnership on Health and Mobility in East and South Africa (PHAMESA) and implemented by IOM in close cooperation with Uganda’s AIDS Commission, Ministry of Works and Transport, and Ministry of Health.

For more information, please contact

Bernadette Ssebadduka
IOM Uganda
Email: bssebadukka@iom.int