When was the last time you saw a Glowing Moth or a shooting Star (Ekirebwomwe)? Such signs traditionally depict how much luck (Tukahirwa) you’ve got on your side, trust me.…
Maurine Tukahirwa

Maurine Tukahirwa
Maurine is an author at Girls Must and she envisions a world where girls are leaders in creating the changes they want to see in their lives and communities. She also hosts #EmergentWoman a podcast produced by Girls Must.
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“Would you date a partner Living with HIV?” A very common question on these streets. Usually, there would be no formula in identifying a partner because whether HIV+ or HIV-,…
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The deafening silence, the louder whispers is all that’s been observed among Adolescent Girls and Young Women living with HIV during this trying period of COVID-19. “My CD4 Count is…
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Before everything else was in existence, there existed energy. At least that’s what quantum physicists say. It is believed that everything in the universe is energy itself starting from the…
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Communities always want to find immediate solutions to problems and this comes at a cost! Generating ideas is always the solution however weighing all the possible solutions with an open…
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HealthWomen's Rights
Male egoism to contraception: A Catalyst to violence to Adolescents and Young Women
“If you get pregnant again, I will leave you” this is a statement often heard by many women in our communities: we cannot fail to attribute it to male egoism,…
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Care to notice that Gender Based Violence among other forms of violence is on a rise? We might want to think that we advocates are not doing enough but that’s…
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DiscriminationNutrition
Nutrition, an obstacle to access Adolescent Responsive and Youth Friendly Services in Africa!
We all know that saying, you look what you eat? Well don’t think that it is a coincidence, it’s actually a fact. Anyway most of us might be wondering how…
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It’s true, a pregnant woman living with HIV can pass on the Virus to her baby during pregnancy, childbirth, and through breastfeeding. If you are a woman living with HIV,…