2024 October-December Newsletter
In this bulletin, we bring to you highlights about… At the Kampala HIV and TB Stakeholders’ Meeting, Ambassador William P. Popp launched the HIV project in Kampala, more funding to the cause. Training for health professionals; Maternal and Child Health training at Mbuya, Regional Recency testing refresher. ROM partners and Mennonite Central Committee to improve […]
2023 October-December Newsletter
NEWSLETTER ISSUE OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2023 IN THIS ISSUE, WE BRING TO YOU… World AIDS Day 2023 U.S Ambassador honors ROM’s progress in HIV care and treatment ROM partners with ZCCC to commemorate World AIDS Day, march 5km to Luzira Port Bell Landing site ROM holds a Charity Drive to support OVC; appreciates all partners for their […]
World AIDS Day 2023
ROM commemorated World AIDS Day 2023 in various ways and with different stakeholders. Based on the theme – “Let communities lead” several activities were carried out to reflect on the progress made by the organization in the HIV response and to raise awareness about the challenges that still hinder efforts to end HIV by 2030.
U.S Ambassador honors ROM’s progress in HIV care and treatment
This World AIDS Day, Ambassador William Popp visited ROM to appreciate the organization’s efforts to reduce the further spread of HIV among the most vulnerable members of the communities served. He was amazed at the excellent services ROM provides her clients. The Ambassador witnessed first-hand experience at the ROM-Banda site’s counseling, pharmacy, laboratory, community, and […]
ROM partners with ZCCC to commemorate World AIDS Day, march 5km to Luzira Port Bell Landing site
Being a community-based organization, ROM joins efforts with other institutions to sensitize the public about HIV, all aimed at ending the pandemic by 2030. This World AIDS Day, Zhejiang Communications Construction Company Limited (ZCCC), a road construction company currently contracted with the renovation of the Kampala-Nakawa-Luzira Road partnered with ROM to mobilize members of neighboring […]
ROM holds a Charity Drive to support OVC; appreciates all partners for their support
“Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.” Luke 3:11 The ROM Annual Charity Drive 2023 aimed at raising school fees for orphans and Vulnerable children (OVC) was concluded in December 2023 with a Charity Run on 2nd December. A pool […]
OVC beneficiary completes school as midwife, blesses ROM for support
It is no ordinary situation for a young girl like Dolly Ejang to excel in academics amidst social and economic challenges. Even after living a difficult childhood after the death of her father at the age of three, Dolly’s dream was to become medical personnel but this would never have become a reality hadn’t […]
“Embrace positive living for a good life”- Dr. Stephen Watiti tells participants at UAC/ROM Health Camp
At the health camp organized by the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) and ROM to equip UAC staff and their families with HIV and AIDS information and services, Dr. Stephen Watiti, who has lived with HIV for over thirty years advised participants to always accept the problem that there’s and live positively if they are to […]
With ROM’s support, my HIV positive status is no longer an issue-Angela Murungi “No more crying about my HIV positive status” Woman finds relief at ROM
Thirty-two-year-old Angela Murungi abandoned her dream of ever working again as a domestic worker at a loving family’s home in Iraq when two months after securing her dream job, she received the bad news of her HIV positive status. “I had got a good family where the lady, her husband and children loved me, but […]
2023 Grandmothers’ Annual gathering: seeking for health and social protection
This year, over 500 grandmothers across the country gathered at Pope Paul Memorial Hotel in Kampala to learn from each other, build solidarity and share priorities with national policy makers with emphasis on health and social protection. Supported by the Stephen Lewis Foundation, ROM partnered with five other organizations under the Grandmothers’ Consortium. The three-day […]