Biography

Sekgabo Seselamarumo is a Botswana-based youth advocate, educator, researcher, and HIV activist with lived experience. She is a passionate champion of adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), HIV cure research, and community-led advocacy. Sekgabo serves as a Peer Leader and co-founder of Botswana’s first Network of Young People Living with HIV (NYPLHIV), where she supports peer learning, health literacy, and national policy engagement.

She is the creator and host of The HIV Cure Podcast, a youth-led platform that translates scientific developments—especially in HIV cure and vaccine research—into accessible conversations for young people. Developed during her HIV Cure Fellowship with the International AIDS Society (IAS), the podcast bridges storytelling, science, advocacy and community empowerment.

Sekgabo holds multiple prestigious fellowships and awards, including the IAS HIV Advocacy-for-Cure Fellowship, IAS HIV Vaccine Enterprise Fellowship, the CROI Community Educator Scholarship 2025.

In 2025, Sekgabo was part of a regional team that co-developed the Draft Advocacy Strategy (2025–2028) for Advancing Domestic HIV Vaccine Research and Development in Africa, working with fellows from Nigeria, Liberia, and Malawi, with support from IAS and IAVI. She co-facilitated the strategy’s review at the IAS 2025 conference in Kigali and served on a high-level panel titled “The Case for Domestic HIV Vaccine R&D Funding in Africa.”

Her affiliations include the International AIDS Society (IAS), AVAC, International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW), The Network of Young People Living with HIV and Sentebale Charity. She currently freelances with the Botswana Ministry of Child Welfare and Basic Education as a Curriculum Developer and radio Presenter. Her work integrates research, policy, and youth-led advocacy to influence sustainable and equitable health outcomes in Africa.