Author: Donavine Kwizera
Income generation project boosts condom use among Burundian sex workers
Sex workers in Burundi have more negotiating power to demand safer sex, thanks to efforts to help them find new ways of earning an income.
Since 2013 ...
Discrimination behind HIV rise in transgender women
“I was born a boy but in my mind I’m a girl. People need to be open, stop judging us, let us wear (clothes) the way we feel so that we can be comforta ...
First Red Ribbon award for Burundians
For the first time in its 10-year history, a Burundian organisation has won the prestigious Red Ribbon Award (RRA) that celebrates community leadershi ...
Burundi: new tool promotes human rights of people most at risk of HIV infection
A human right is a freedom of some kind – for example to choose how you live or express yourself – but many people, particularly in Burundi, do not kn ...
Burundi: condoms are my friends, my everyday protection
On 14 February, Valentine’s Day, more than 50 young Burundians lined up to get condoms at a youth centre in the capital, Bujumbura. ...
How young people in Burundi are tackling HIV
On World Sexual Health Day (4 September), HIV youth advocates are highlighting the fact that the disease is the number one cause of adolescent deaths ...
The cost of living: young Burundians pay for friend’s surgery
As an orphan living with HIV Alberic had no one to help him with his emergency hospital fees, but then his friends stepped in. ...
Burundi: youth network faces discrimination and stigma
The owners of a property in Bujumbura in Burundi refused to rent it to an organisation for young people living with HIV, because they did not want to ...
HIV discordant couples in Burundi face pressure and discrimination
Discordant couples are not sustainable, according to a survey among members of the National Network of Youth Living with HIV in Burundi. ...
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