Noerine Kaleeba started the AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) in 1987, following the death from AIDS of her husband Christopher. As a physiotherapist she had specialised in community rehabilitation and was head of the school of physiotherapy at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, the largest teaching hospital in Uganda. It has been a tragic journey: of the 16 who started TASO, 12 died of AIDS within a year. Kaleeba is also a trustee of the development charity ActionAid and community mobilisation adviser to UNAIDS at its secretariat in Geneva.
What inspired you to start helping people with AIDS?
Christopher, my late husband, was…
