2017 Advocate Michael Miiro

Michael Miiro is the technical advisor on HIV/AIDS, disability, and sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV) for the Masaka Association of Persons with Disabilities Living with HIV & AIDS (MADIPHA). He has trained village health teams, health workers, and police in sign language, and held workshops about persons with disabilities (PWDs) who are living with HIV & AIDS as well as SGBV against PWDs. He has worked with the local government on anti-poverty initiatives such as obtaining a grant for PWDs to start village and loan revolving groups, and giving PWDs goats, chickens, vegetables and coffee seedlings to generate income. At the regional level, he worked with other stakeholders to lobby for changing policies that maintain exclusion and segregation of PWDs from society. 

Michael (far left) sharing HRAP training materials with MADIPHA board members upon his return to Uganda. Photo credit: Disability Rights Fund.