"Love in the Time of Scarcity: HIV, Care & Survival"

What does it mean to care when the world stops caring?

In this deeply moving episode, host Pepe Onziema welcomes Josephine Mukwaaya, executive director of COPTEC, for an intimate conversation about love, survival, and service in Uganda's HIV advocacy movement.

Josephine opens up about:

• Living with HIV and caring for others living with HIV—what love looks like when you're both caregiver and community member
• Growing up and coming into her truth: The journey that led her to this work
• Leading COPTEC in crisis: How organizations continue providing life-saving care and support when funding dries up and resources disappear
• The reality of service provision now: What happens to communities when the world moves on but the needs remain urgent
• Finding joy and purpose in spaces of scarcity and struggle

This is a conversation about resilience, about the labor of love that keeps communities alive, and about what thriving looks like when survival itself requires collective care.

"Care is not charity. Care is how we keep each other alive."

The Legacy Pulse continues interrogating liberation—one story at a time.