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	Stephen Kasoma


Gender and Age:		Male, 26
Location:		Kampala, Central
Country of Residence:		Uganda
Country of Birth:		Uganda
Nationalities:		Ugandan
Citizenships:		Uganda
Languages:		English , Luganda , Swahili



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About Me

Stephen is an ITMC holder from New Jersey Institute Of Technology and has been working with Straight Talk Foundation (www.straight-talk.or.ug) as the assistant IT.

Stephen has worked as GYCA’s regional Focal Point Person for East Africa for 2007 and 2008. He has keen interest in working with, and for young people. Stephen is an active member of other youth networks, which include: Advocates For Youth, Network for Adolescents and Youth of Africa (NAYA) as Straight Talk Foundation’s focal point and UNICEF Voices of Youth.

He has five years’ experience in HIV/AIDS work, working with youth both in and out of school, urban and rural in Uganda, including those directed affected by the rebel activities in the Northern part of the country.
He has skills in Project Management and Political Advocacy, attained trough the
E-courses provided by GYCA.

Stephen has been a speaker on a number of conferences including The XVII Internationa AIDS Conference(AIDS 2008),The 4th World Urban Forum (wuf4 2008), the International Students Conference on HIV/AIDS (ISCA 2005) where he presented a paper on “AIDS and the Youth: what they know and what they need to know”, Highway to Africa 2006 (“THE VULNERABILITY OF YOUTH TO HIV”), BARA University Students Campaign: Giving University Students methods that Work in the fight against HIV. He was also invited as a youth representative on Uganda’s delegation to the 2006 UNGASS.

Stephen has on an number of occasions served as a temporaly advisor to WHO and UNAIDS on Malce Circumcision for HIV prevention, and is currently part of the team working with UNICEF and AVAC on Male circumcision and young people related issues.

He is now planning to start creating short films on Young people and how they are affected by social issues like HIV and poverty.

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