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"Not every site has the capacity to do what we do in Mulago and Kawempe.Some mothers don't start treatment at the required time."

"Some of the women get the disease during pregnancy and they don't know about it, so they end up producing a child with HIV.Some of them take the medicine when they want This makes the viral load very high, increasing the risk of transmission to the baby."

"If you look at the group,we follow at MUJHU,3,000,the prevalence of mother -to-child transmission of HIV is at zero percent.None of them transmitted the virus to the baby.They are on treatment and are followed regularly (by our health workers).But the national prevalence is at around 5 percent."

"You cannot be free when other people around the world are not free."

"I felt down as a citizen of this country to know that our police force, which is obligated to protect us, could abuse a woman in full view. I was silent for a while as I tried to internalise what I had just seen. The next day i knew for sure that we would have to do something. We couldn't let this pass."

"I was seriously offended that a police force that is supposed to protect us had assaulted a woman in front of everyone."

"We settled on the bra protest. We thought it would be most appropriate for what had happened. It’s not like we were saying we don’t respect ourselves. We were disgusted by what had been done."

"Primah represents women suffering violence and abuse."

"Primah has handled cases involving patients, illegal detentions in health facilities, access to emergency obstetric care, access to free vital medicines, and has led teams to mediate cases between investors and communities to ensure human rights of residents are not sacrificed."

"Interviewer: Why did you decide to study rape? Caroline Adoch: It is my conviction that rape is a big issue for women and girls. The fear of rape defines so many parameters of the lives of women and girls."

"Interviewer: What was your experience completing your Doctorate at Makerere University while teaching? Caroline Adoch: It's been a challenge though, considering the student numbers that we teach and the scripts for marking. Creating a balance between teaching and studying calls for commitment."

"Adoch believes political will checks impunity and lawlessness."

"Interviewer: Do you have any advice for the girl child and the Makerere University? Caroline Adoch: To the University, I wish to say, at 100 years we shouldn’t be talking about ‘firsts’ in terms of opportunities."

"If your belief system disagrees with my humanity then we can’t be friends. How can I expect you to love someone you don’t see as a human being?"

"I love my country, and that means a lot to me."

"My desire is to take long deserved rest and spend time with my family."

"I, sure, have an awareness that could help folks out there."

"I understand my introverted nature makes it uncomfortable for people to reach out to me but I am pretty much an open person when it comes to issues I am passionate about."

"I was ready. I wanted to take time to do the important work on myself before making a public confession."

"Society has for long dictated what platforms are right for women to express their views on specific issues. This belief is slowly changing as a result of an increasingly boarder blurred global community."

"I spend a lot of time dreaming of and trying to imagine a feminist future. My utopia has happy woman."

"We have the capacity, we don’t lack anything, the economy is growing so we shall be able to sustain ourselves."

"Don’t be intimidated by all those fellows."

"My feminism is rooted in love for Woman and love for myself. Love for humanity as well because feminism for me is directed not just at the ending of sexist oppression, but at ending all oppression including homophobic, transphobic, racist, capitalist oppression, etc."

"Feminism to me, is an ideology of love."

"Unless the parents practiced forgiveness and sought a peaceful solution to the conflict, they would destroy what they most wanted back."

"You don't have to do something big to change the world. Start by doing a small act like reading and informing yourself about what is happening around you."

"Every one should advocate for climate justice because climate change affects all of us; the young and old, no matter how much you contribute."

"Climate change is here already. The good news is that we have the facts and solutions with us. Climate change is a health issue, it is an education issue and it affects everyone. Fighting for climate justice is fighting for humanity."

"The future belongs to those young people, because they still have a lot of time, they haven't achieved a lot, but the older generation have already achieved so much and (climate change) probably won't be so much their problem."

"In most instances a woman has to get permission from the husband, family and sometimes relatives to contest for a political seat. We are here to give them (women) skills that will enable them compete with men."

"It was an honour of the invisible Human Rights Defenders in homes, and public spaces who never have the spot light yet do an incredible job in giving a voice to women and girls."

"As a mother, it is not easy to wait for a missing child to return -- it is very hard."

"You cannot put out a fire with petrol."

"Bullets have no eyes. In the field, bullets would not know if a child was abducted or volunteered for the rebel army. War would destroy all these children."

"We prefer to cling to bitterness, but bitterness is corrosive. Like a container filled with salt, it will destroy everything because the Lord cannot forgive us if we cannot forgive others. Life is wonderful if we let God heal us."

"You’re always running, trying to be safe."

"If I am given a chance to show my work, I don’t want things to disappear on the floor."

"Many innocent people end up behind bars because they lack legal representation. I am determined to leave prison a learned woman so that I fight for the rights of the underprivileged."

"Hanging a person is not a deterrent since everyone deserves a second chance to live. That is why I petitioned against the death penalty."

"People out there think prisoners do not have the brains to study law, but I have made it. I am now an alumni of the University of London."

"The Kiira Motors project is the brainchild of university research, which has been the model for innovations and economic growth in the developed countries. This project will impact the economic reforms that are currently being undertaken in the respective East African partner states."

"My home is only two metres above water. With the threat of climate change we lose two metres of our culture."

"Teachers should not die poor. We need to leave a legacy and retire from service to live a happy life. As I serve the nation through extending service to the girl-child, I implore fellow teachers to also live an entreprising life and outlive the notion where society believes that teachers should die poor."

"While many western male students fully paid attention and believed in my work, several of their African counterparts did not take me serious yet i was fully responsible for their respective future as PhD students."

"Upward mobility of women would not be difficult if it were not for gender biases and the multiple responsibilities a woman carries in a community. Some people think women are supposed to be average in anything and yet if a man gets average, he will not be happy."

"It hasn’t rained for two years. To experience what that means in a community, to see how much people are suffering and how much help they need, I really got to see how the climate crisis is affecting so many lives and destroying so many livelihoods, and that it’s mostly women and children who are suffering the most."

"Across the continent many activists are doing incredible work, and there were many before us and the climate strikes in 2018. When the focus is just on one person it erases other experiences and stories. The solution is not to put faces on the climate movement, it has millions of people who are doing incredible work and organizing in their communities."

"It’s people and stories like this we really need to listen to."

"Having dominion over the Earth is about responsibility and service to the planet and its people, because God is not a God of waste and exploitation."