Alliance of Women Advocating for Change
To build a resilient female sex workers’ movement that advocate for sustainable integrated health, promotion of human rights, social and economic wellbeing of female sex workers.
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Alliance of Women Advocating for Change (AWAC) is an umbrella
network of over 10.000 individual reached with services and 47 grass root emerging
female sex worker organizations cutting across the 6 regions of Uganda. Established in
2015 by Female Sex Workers (FSWs) to advance health rights, human rights, social economic rights & social protection for Female Sex Worker (FSWs), Children of sex workers and adolescents surviving in sex worker settings, and other marginalized women and young sex workers (18-30Yrs)- especially FSWs who use and inject drugs; FSWs Living with HIV/AIDS & TB; Refugees FSWs in Urban Setting; FSWs Living with Disability survivors of violence & conflict in Peri-urban & rural areas.
Issues we focus on
Advocacy, Community Empowerment, Psychosocial Support
Services offered
Advocacy, Community Empowerment, Counselling, Drop-in Centre, Harm Reduction, Health service delivery, HIV Testing & Treatment, legal services, Referrals for Counselling & Mental Health, Screening & Treatment of STIs
Key Figures
Resource Personnel
| Personnel | Number of people |
| Paralegals | 3 |
| Peer Educators | 65 |
| Village Health Teams |
Recorded Human Rights Violations
| Violation | Number of occurences |
|---|---|
| Denial of an investigation by the police | 9 |
| Eviction due to failure to pay rent | 8 |
| Excessive use of force by law enforcement | 19 |
| Gender-based/intimate partner violence while staying with a partner | 23 |
| Harassment | 7 |
| Intimidation | 2 |
| Torture or cruel, inhumane, degrading treatment in a public health facility | 12 |
| Unable to access health services due to movement restrictions | 2 |
| Unable to access legal services | 23 |
| Unable to adhere to ART due to lack of nutritional support | 43 |
Stories from Alliance of Women Advocating for Change
Peer Strengths Footsteps (PSF) Model
AWAC uses the Peer Strengths Footsteps (PSF) Model- which taps into the peer’s latent...
Accelerating and control of epidemics among Female Sex Workers
AWAC has played a key role in accelerating the epidemic control among Female Sex...
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