Community dialogue: stigma, policing and the right to test

Three community dialogues in Tandika, Azimio and Mbagala bring KVPs, ward leaders and police gender desk officers into a single room.

AHADI's hardest barrier is not service availability — it is the chain of stigma that runs from family to landlord to police. Direct, facilitated conversation is slow, but it is the only intervention that consistently shifts that chain.

Temeke gender desk agreed to designate two officers as KVP focal points, contactable directly by ASUTA case managers when a client is detained.