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Rejoice Mary Abah is an evangelist, gospel artiste and social worker. She is a graduate of the National Teachers Institute, Kaduna State, where she acquired a National Certificate of Education (NCE). She also attended Rhema Bible Training Center Nigeria (RBTC). She has attended several capacity building programs within and outside Nigeria where she developed her capacity in social and development work. Her expertise and skill set spans several fields including advocacy, counseling, community mobilization and sensitization, treatment adherence counseling, research as well as program planning and implementation. Being is a survivor of child marriage herself, she believes strongly in women’s rights and in women living their lives free from gender-based oppression and violence. To that effect, she has led several community sensitization and awareness programs, campaigns, advocacy, and dialogue meetings to promote the rights of women. She worked with SHEWE (Sexual Health Education for Women), a coalition which aims to advance and bridge Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) information gaps among adolescent girls and young women living with HIV. In this capacity, she represented the coalition in the media, promoting contraceptive use for women living with HIV and making recommendations to the government on improving the wellbeing of Nigerian women living with HIV and struggling to stay on treatment during the COVID-19 lockdown. As a resource person for the Prevention and Home-Based Care project, organized by Center for Development and Population Activities, she facilitated several Training of Trainers (ToT) workshops on HIV prevention for various peer groups around the country. She is currently a Project / Monitoring & Evaluation Officer for the International Community of Women living with HIV, West African Region (ICW West Africa. In this capacity, she has participated in several activities to promote and address issues that affect women and adolescent girls living with HIV, in West Africa.