{"id":19174,"date":"2019-02-14T07:44:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T07:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19174"},"modified":"2019-02-14T07:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T07:44:55","slug":"this-powerful-activist-and-mentor-is-fighting-hiv-stigma-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/14\/this-powerful-activist-and-mentor-is-fighting-hiv-stigma-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"This powerful activist and mentor is fighting HIV stigma in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_146068\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146068\" class=\"wp-image-146068 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/one_org_international\/international\/media\/international\/2019\/01\/28104708\/Untitled-design-14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-146068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robinah started her journey as an HIV activist with a photo on Facebook (left). Four years later, she\u2019s achieved more than ever (right).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/international\/blog\/why-this-beauty-queen-used-facebook-to-declare-her-hiv-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first introduced you to Robinah<\/a> in 2016, and now we\u2019re catching up with her to see what her life has been like since she revealed her HIV status to her classmates and began her journey as an HIV\/AIDS activist. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Robinah Babirye was ten years old, her mother sat down with her and her twin sister Eva and told them they were both HIV positive. Robinah was devastated.<\/p>\n<p>Now 25, Robinah sees that moment as a beginning, sparking what has become an incredible journey into HIV activism work. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>We first introduced you to Robinah in 2016, and now we\u2019re catching up with her to see what her life has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}