Victoria Kakoko Sebagereka

Victoria Kakoko Sebagereka (17 July 1946 - 4 August 2021) was a Ugandan legislator, politician and AIDS activist. She served as the Woman Member of Parliament for Kayunga District in Uganda's seventh parliament.

Quotes

"AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark" (2021)

"AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark", Health Journalist Network in Uganda (August 10, 2021)

• Uganda has AIDS. We call it siliimu. And siliimu is within us and among us. And It is only Philley Bongoley Lutaya that has accepted to show us that it is here. And it is up to us know how to handle it.

• But I hope and trust that you bear with me that for him it is a big thing to carry. He is carrying it for us, for you and me. And for generations to come

• AIDS is considered a homosexual disease in developed countries, but it is a heterosexual disease in Africa and it affects us all. Everyone knows someone who is infected or has a family member who has died.

• It finds women on their marriage beds, especially rural women.

• The men go to the towns looking for work and when they come home, the women open their loving arms and everything else and they get it from their husbands.

• It is a scourge and in Africa, it is putting the productive and reproductive edge at risk.

• In many societies, women are facing serious social, economic, cultural, moral and religious barriers to access to information on the disease, to protective measures and to medication to slow it development in the event of contamination.

• Moreover, women transmit the virus when giving birth, and so have an especially important role to play in fighting the propagation of AIDS. “It is vital to target women through specific programs.

• Inequalities between the sexes, societies and continents must be eliminated to halt the epidemic’s spread