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thumb Reverend Canon Gideon Byamugisha (born 1959) is an Anglican priest in Uganda with a parish outside of Kampala. In 1992, he became the first religious leader in Africa to publicly announce that he was HIV positive.〔(HIV-positive religious leaders break their silence ). Mg.co.za (17 March 2008). Retrieved on 26 November 2012.〕〔(Canon Gideon Byamugisha ) – ICMDA Worldwide.〕 In 2009, Byamugisha received the 26th annual Niwano Peace Prize "in recognition of his work to uphold the dignity and human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS".〔(Why the 26th Niwano Peace Prize is being awarded to The Reverend Canon Gideon Baguma Byamugisha. ) – Dr. Gunnar Stålsett, Chairman, Niwano Peace Prize Committee〕 Byamugisha co-founded the African Network of Religious Leaders Living with and Personally Affected HIV and Aids (ANERELA+) in February 2002,〔 and in 2006 started a shelter for orphans of AIDS victims. He lives with his wife and three HIV negative children.〔 ==Early life== Byamugisha is from Kigezi, near the Ugandan border with Rwanda, the eldest of fourteen children. He was a history and geography teacher, as well as a deputy headmaster, before beginning his theology studies in his twenties. He was most interested in the philosophy of religion. In 1990, Byamugisha's his first wife Kellen gave birth to his daughter, Patience, and both parents had been accepted to study at graduate programs in Britain. These plans changed when Kellen developed chest pains in April 1991, dying a week later. Six months later, Byamugisha learned that his wife had died of AIDS.〔 Byamugisha does not know where he contracted the virus. He and his wife were not tested before their marriage, and in 1988 he had been in a serious bicycling accident which required injections and a blood transfusion at a time when medical supplies and blood were not routinely screened for HIV.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gideon Byamugisha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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