About Bomme Isago

Bomme Isago exists to improve the well-being of women and children living with HIV and AIDS and to promote their rights.  The values of Bomme Isago Association are love, unity, commitment, respect, transparency, trust, and consultation.  The organization’s mandate is to institute an environment that supports the needs of women and children living with HIV/AIDS by ensuring that HIV/AIDS policies and legislation respect and uphold the human rights of women and children living with HIV/AIDS.  Bomme Isago Association also aims at empowering women with knowledge that will enrich their lives and enable them to make informed decisions.

Bomme Isago was registered as a membership organisation in 2006 to address the sexual and reproductive health and rights challenges faced by women infected with, and affected by, HIV. These challenges included the limited access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services; stigma and discrimination; the women’s limited knowledge of or access to information about their sexual and reproductive health, and rights and/or lack of capacity or confidence to demand them; and socio-cultural barriers to women in exercising their sexual and reproductive health, and rights.

Bomme Isago seeks to contribute primarily through advocacy and community outreach. It sees these strategies as essential to having a meaningful, effective and long term impact by facilitating changes in legislation, policy and programming, and building community support. In these interventions, Bomme Isago sees as critical the active involvement of its membership to give human faces, and voices, to the issues.It works with organizations such as Rainbow Identity Association and BONELA to advocate for equal rights and protects of all Batswana.