A warm welcome by 🇿🇦 HIV
activists. I am about to give the Africa Centre Inaugural Public Lecture at Stellenbosch University.
Our host is Prof Munya Saruchera Director of the Africa Centre for Inclusive Health Management
#AfricaCentrePublicLecture
From HIV and Ebola to COVID-19, African communities, scientists and leaders have helped advance solutions that save lives. Yet too many decisions about access to medicines, health financing and pandemic response continue to be made elsewhere.
Africa's role in pandemic preparedness cannot be limited to responding to crises. Africa must help shape the future.
Honoured to deliver the inaugural public lecture at the Africa Centre for Inclusive Health Management at @StellenboschUni.
📅 Monday, 9 Nov 2026
📽️ Watch here: youtube.com/live/STqHy2QFAkA
What does it cost to #EndAIDS? What will it cost if we don't?
Investing in the HIV response saves lives, strengthens communities and helps build healthier, more resilient societies.
@UNAIDS #UnitedToEndAIDS
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Honoured to deliver the inaugural public lecture at the Africa Centre for Inclusive Health Management at @StellenboschUni next week.
From HIV and Ebola to COVID-19, African communities, scientists and leaders have shown what works. The challenge now is to ensure Africa helps shape the rules, resources and solutions needed to prevent future pandemics.
Pls join us: healthmanagement.sun.ac.za/a…
#PPPR #EndAIDS
Throughout my life, I've seen how inequality drives poverty, ill health, conflict and climate breakdown, and I know that they are all deeply interconnected.
So I'm excited to join @IIED as Chair of its Board of Trustees from 2027 and help advance its work for a more just, sustainable and equal world.
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It was lovely to catch up with @HEBobiwine and meet his son Solomon at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday.
His red-capped supporters turned up in force! Young and old, women and men, they came to stand with political prisoners and show their love and solidarity with BW.
Watching him engage with people, I saw a warm, thoughtful and humble leader.
It breaks my heart and angers me that he and his family must live in exile. What injustice! What a loss for Uganda to drive away a young leader of such promise!
Oh Uganda, what are we doing to ourselves? 🇺🇬
What a lovely discovery this morning! Woke up to the beautiful soul music of British-Ugandan artist Michael Kiwanuka. His new album FUDGE has just debuted at No. 13 on the UK Albums Chart!
What a talent! Bannange #UgandaZaabu ! 🇺🇬🎶
Here, where Martin Luther King proclaimed his dream of freedom, I say:
Free Kizza Besigye! Free Uganda’s political prisoners!
You can imprison a freedom fighter. You cannot imprison the struggle for freedom.
Thank you @NEDemocracy
For 25 years, he has paid a terrible price. Repeated arrests, imprisonment, torture, persecution. But never surrender.
Today, nearly two years after his abduction from Kenya, Kizza remains in prison, denied bail, facing a treason trial.
His body is weakened. But his spirit is unbroken.
I know this man. I know his courage. I know his principles. He cannot be bought. He cannot be frightened into silence…./3
Forty-four years ago, at just 26, my life partner, Dr Kizza Besigye, abandoned his career as a medical doctor to join a liberation struggle against dictatorship in Uganda.
We won that war. But tragically, the liberators became the oppressors.
Kizza refused to betray the ideals for which he had risked his life. In 2001, he challenged his former commander for the presidency…../2
We are marking International Day of Political Prisoners at Lincoln Memorial.
We are families and human rights defenders from all over the world.
We call for justice and freedom for our loved ones.
#FreeKizzaBesigye
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
@ned
We are at Lincoln Memorial marking International Day of Political Prisoners.
Thank you @NED for bringing families, human rights defenders and former political prisoners.
#NoSurrender
#WeDemandJustice
Thank you @bobiwine for your courageous leadership