MUHINDO Richard investigated the influences of regular STI and HIV screening intentions and practices among sex workers, and whether text message reminders and peer education would improve the uptake of facility-based STI testing. He observed that relative to female sex workers, heterosexual male sex workers had low syphilis and HIV testing intentions and practices owing to negative testing attitudes, low self-efficacy, and non-accepting norms. In a non-randomized quasi-experimental study, bi-monthly text message reminders with weekly peer education sessions increased the uptake of 3-monthly syphilis and HIV testing among female sex workers. These findings have implications for the global strategy to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, and the STI epidemic by 2040. The study was funded by Fogarty International Center, Uganda Academy for Health Innovation and impact funded by Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust; and was supervised by Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba, Prof. Nazarius MbonaTumwesigye and Dr. Juliet Kiguli.