Joseph Robert Linda
Kampala / Uganda - U=U Youth Strategist(he/him)
Joseph Robert Linda is a passionate Youth Advocate with over five years of experience in HIV, TB, and SRHR programming for young people. He focuses on ending AIDS among young people by ensuring their meaningful engagement in local and regional platforms.
He serves at PAC as the U=U Youth Strategist. In this role, he leads youth-centered campaigns to empower fellow young people living with HIV to champion the U=U message and lead the U=U global movement. He represents PAC on the International AIDS Society’s Organizing Committee, the governing body responsible for the world’s leading HIV/AIDS conferences — IAS 2025, HIVR4P, and AIDS 2026.
He is also the AVAC Advocacy Navigator for 2024, creating awareness, accessibility, and uptake of comprehensive HIV prevention methods among young people and key populations in selected slum areas of Kampala, Uganda. He is a youth advocate at AIDS Healthcare Foundation Uganda Cares. In 2023, he was selected as the International AIDS Society Youth Hub Seed Grantee with Naguru Youth Health Network in Uganda.
