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	Stephen Kasoma


Title and Organization:		Information Systems Officer, PACANet
Gender and Age:		Male, 29
Location:		Kampala, Central
Country of Residence:		Uganda
Country of Birth:		Uganda
Nationalities:		Ugandan
Citizenships:		Uganda
Languages:		English , Luganda , Swahili



Website:		http://pacanet.net
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About Me

Stephen is an ITMC holder from New Jersey Institute Of Technology and is working with the Pan African Christian AIDS Network (PACANet - www.pacanet.net) as the Information Systems officer.Before PACANet, he was working with Straight Talk Foundation,Uganda's leading SRH communications Organization (www.straight-talk.or.ug) as the assistant IT Officer.

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 over six 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 International AIDS Conference(AIDS 2008),The 4th World Urban Forum (wuf4 2008), the International Students Conference on HIV/AIDS (ISCA), Highway to Africa 2006 , BARA University Students Campaign among others.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 temporally adviser to WHO and UNAIDS on Male Circumcision for HIV prevention, and is currently part of the team working with UNICEF and AVAC on Male circumcision and young people related issues.

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