World AIDS Day: First African priest to declare HIV status

“Gideon, I am sorry that I am giving you such shocking news, but I want to assure you; we loved you before HIV and we will continue loving, supporting and caring for you even after AIDS.”

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Gideon (standing) during a seminar organised by the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda in June 2019.
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The Rev. Can. Gideon Byamugisha is an Anglican priest living with HIV.

In 1992, he became the first religious leader in Africa to publicly announce that he was HIV-positive.

In 2002, he

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