Joyce Ouma is a youth activist from Kenya living openly with HIV. Driven by her experience as a young person living with HIV, Joyce has dedicated her life to advocate for and advance the rights of adolescents and young people living with HIV in all their diversity, nationally and globally.
She holds a bachelor‘s degree in education and is currently pursuing her Masters in Gender, Women and Development studies adding onto her wealth of experience in HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for young people.
Joyce is passionate about promoting ethical and meaningful engagement of young people in relevant decision and policy making spaces and she is a renowned HIV and SRHR advocate who works with and has represented voices of adolescents and young people at local and international decision making spaces including being a youth member of the communities delegation to the board the board of the Global Fund, an observer at the Global Fund’s youth council and representative of the Adolescents and Young People at the Kenya Country Coordinating Mechanism of the Global Fund. She is also a member of the Education Plus initiative’s young women nerve center.
Joyce is a recent graduate from the AVAC 2020/21 fellowship having worked on a project advocating for effective HIV and SRH integration for young women in Kenya.
She is currently working as the influence and engagement at the Global Network of Young People living with HIV (Y+ Global).
