Sex workers rights advocate, Duduzile Dlamini is to receive the first ever Prudence Mabele award at the 22nd International Aids Conference in Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
Prudence Mabele was the first black woman to announce publicly in 1992 that she was HIV positive.
She died last year. The award aims to promote the remarkable work being done by gender justice and health equity activists.
Dlamini will be honoured for her work with sex workers in South Africa.
She says she’s grateful for being recognised in this way.
She says: “This is motivating me that in my leadership I have to share with other mothers, to share with other women in SA so that we are able to fight the stigma and discrimination against children of sex workers who are affected by HIV and also to fight HIV.”
