Milly Katana, who sits on the board of the Global Aids Fund, may well be the most powerful HIV positive person in the world. Martin Flynn met her in London last month
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Thirty-year-old Milly Katana is the only HIV positive representative
on the board of the Global Aids Fund. She is one of just nine people who
will vote on which Aids, TB and Malaria projects will get a slice of the
estimated $700 million to be given from the fund this year.
"I was diagnosed in 1995 and joined
the network of people living with HIV in
Kampala. I received enormous solidarity and support and it is fair to
say that other positive people helped me regain my life."
Since becoming an activist, Milly has gone on to become a representative
of the Health Rights Group of Uganda and has been the African board member
of the Global Network of HIV Positive People (GNP+) for the last three
years.
She now works alongside representatives of major western donor countries,
nations most affected by the Aids epidemic, private foundations and leading
non-
governmental organisations. There's been quite a lot of criticism of the rich western countries that they haven't given enough to the global fund. Since
