Rose was diagnosed as HIV positive in 2003. 

Now, thanks to the help she has been given, she is restored to health. Each time Father Kakuba passes her house she rushes to greet him and thanks him for saving her life. Without the early diagnosis and the regular medical treatment she receives from the Kanyike Project, her story could be very different indeed.

She has gone on to run a shop from her house and, with the profits, built a new home.  In the pictures below, her old house is on the left, and she is standing at the doorway of her new one (on the right).

And Rose is a positive force for advocating better health care and lifestyle in the wider community.