TOKENS OF LIFE UGANDA
BLIND TRUST GOT ME HIV – SARAH APORO By Christopher Mukasa
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arah Aporo a 26-year-old HIV Positive female with undetectable viral load, apparently working with Makerere University Business School as an Administrator and currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Arts and Counselling at Makerere University, discovered that she had contracted HIV after a tip off about the boy she was dating. In January 2017, when university finalist Sarah Aporo discovered that she had contracted HIV after a tip off about the boy she was dating, her first reaction was; fear, confusion, blame and anger – but she managed to rise from the ashes of her seemingly crumbled world to fight for young people who are most prone to catching the disease. Today, she is championing the HIV fight in Uganda towards Zero Infections using social media to educate the masses on stigma and the importance of testing and adherence to drugs.
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Aporo was also recently presented with a Courage Award for coming out and championing the fight against new infections among the youth. She shared her story of Hope with Mukasa Christopher The Story My boyfriend and I dated for over a year. I remember on the Valentine’s Day of 2015, we agreed to wait having Sex until marriage. About five months later, we broke up and I moved on and started seeing somebody else. With my new boyfriend, we tested for HIV before getting intimate. We were both negative, but the relationship did not last long. A few months down the road, I reconciled with my previous boyfriend and we became intimate. A mutual friend of my boyfriend and I told me she had heard that he might be HIV-positive and that I needed to have my blood tested immediately. I was shaken by this information, but I also trusted my boyfriend, since I had never seen him take any drugs.
