The three Ugandans who publicly announced their HIV status

The three HIV NOBLESTS (Elvis Basudde Kyeyune, Major Rubaramira Ruranga and Moses Nsubuga aka Super Charger) are some of the heroes recently recognized by Uganda AIDS Commission for having changed the landscape of HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

Elvis Basudde is a journalist attached to The New Vision, he is always jolly and ever smiling. After a two-year bedridden spell, Basudde declared his HIV status and offered to work towards helping gullible Ugandans as far as HIV/AIDS was concerned.

Basudde’s life and stories will give you hope if you are living positively. He was neglected while on sick bed, but as soon as he gained consciousness; he chose to announce it publicly and start a war against the scourge.

Moses Nsubuga aka Super Charger has a touching story. He tested his blood while he was on kyeyo (odd job) in the UK (London). After he was found carrying HIV virus, his peers and colleagues in London collected money, bought him air ticket and was sent to be buried in Uganda.

They feared he would died in London and it was expensive to transport a dead body.

Worse still, when he arrived in Uganda his relatives new he would not survive a day. Funeral arrangements were done. Super Charge was loaded on a truck together with iron sheets, cement and iron bars for his tomb and was sent to the village in Kayunga.

God is great, Super Charger is now healthy and happily living. Major Rubaramira Ruranga, is well known. His stories have played a big role in reducing stigma among positive people.

“At Uganda AIDS Commission, we have and will never forget these people who focused on what can be built rather than what can be destroyed, people who focused on how they can help people that they have never and will never meet, people who define themselves not by what makes them different from other persons but by the humanity that we hold in common, “a quote in “The NOBLE Battle,” a publication marking UAC’s 25 anniversary (since 1992).