Agnes Nyamayarwo's Charity Work

Charity biography

The main facilitator of the Mulago Positive Women’s Network is Agnes Nyamayarwo, a nurse from Uganda and a Board member of TASO, an organization that supports the work of the MPWN through various outreach programs. Through these programs, the MPWN is able to provide renewed hope to their members and their families for a successful future.

In many ways, Agnes Nyamayarwo’s story IS the story of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Agnes, a mother of eight children, unknowingly contracted the HIV virus from her husband. When Agnes found out that her husband had died of AIDS in 1992, she went to be tested and found out that she too was HIV+. Agnes then learned that she had unknowingly passed on the HIV/AIDS virus to her youngest son, Christopher, who would die at six years of age from AIDS.

Bono was so impressed by her life experience with HIV/AIDS and her quiet heroism in fighting it that he ultimately invited Agnes to join him and others on the “Heart of America” tour in December 2002.

Agnes Nyamayarwo has also become internationally known for her role as spokesperson for ONE, the campaign to make extreme poverty history. (www.one.org)

Charities supported

Agnes Nyamayarwo has supported the following charities: