Ugandan Celebrities Living With Hiv

Children below the age of 15 account for 11 per cent of the 1 6 million ugandans living with hiv 2013 estimates.

Ugandan celebrities living with hiv. Mzansi celebrities living with hiv. In a 2011 interview with drum magazine bala spoke openly about living with hiv. Though he is the most recent celebrity to. Saturday december 1 was world aids day and also the 30th anniversary of a.

He said he had. However there are a couple of celebrities with hiv who are still alive to date. In 2016 hiv prevalence in uganda was estimated at 7 3 and 24 of people with tb were co infected with hiv 55. These 10 celebrities are also living with hiv.

Lesego motsepe who was known for her role as lettie matabane in isidingo disclosed her status on world aids day in 2011. Chuck panozzo real name charles salvatore is an american musician who is best known as the bass player for the rock band styx. Below are the mzansi hiv celebrities. In 2001 panozzo announced that he was gay and living with full.

In 2007 an estimated 33 2 million people lived with the disease worldwide and it killed an estimated 2 1 million people including 330 000 children. This is a categorized alphabetical list of people who are known to have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus hiv the pathogen that causes aids including those who have died. De shields came out as living with hiv in an interview with thebody in 2020 after three decades of keeping his status private. Hiv is the leading risk factor for development of tb and tb is the leading cause of death among people with hiv.

Aids is a pandemic. Here are 5 of them. The following celebrities have proven so by being an inspiration choosing to use their fame to discuss their hiv status and to advocate for compassion and awareness around hiv hoping to help others to do the same. Our hearts go out to charlie sheen who on the today show this morning announced that he is hiv positive.

Let s meet thirteen of them below. Tuberculosis tb remains a major issue for people living with hiv in uganda. With the roll out of option b there has been a significant drop in new mother to child hiv infections from 8 7 per cent in september 2012 to 7 9 per cent in 2017 unaids estimates. These celebrities have however strongly refuted these claims.

Hiv is a virus that weakens a person s immune system by destroying cd4 cells a type of white blood cell.