In 2003 I was invited to work with an organization in India that was combating human trafficking. While they looked for trafficked adolescent girls in brothels I took note of all the mothers and their children. Since then this has been my primary focus. Several years late a group of FSW who were mothers in Kathmandu, Nepal, asked me to promise that I would continue to work to help their children. I did promise them and this lead to the founding of the organization I lead, Global Health Promise. We do research, programs, and advocacy. The study in Uganda is related to all three of these activities: we need research to know what is harming the mothers and their children, we then use this information to develop and implement programs to prevent the harm we has identified through our research, and we use the data from the research to advocate for the mothers and their children to funders, government agencies, and other NGOs.
