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Outlook: My dad died a Ugandan Aids pioneer

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My dad died a Ugandan Aids pioneer

09/05/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Outlook, My dad died a Ugandan Aids pioneer

Tezra Lutaaya's musician dad, Philly Lutaaya, came out publicly as an Aids victim

Tezra Lutaaya's musician dad, Philly Lutaaya, was the first high profile Ugandan to come out publicly as an Aids victim

By the late 1980s, Philly Lutaaya was one of the biggest music stars in Uganda. He was a family man too, looking after three children as a single dad. But he was  also living with Aids, a disease which was causing widespread devastation across his home country. Despite the huge stigma people with HIV/Aids faced, Philly came out publicly with his condition, the first high profile Ugandan to do so. Like the rest of his family, Philly's daughter Tezra Lutaaya ended up facing stigma too, and had to watch her father deteriorate and die in the public eye. She's spoken to Outlook's Emily Webb about her father's pioneering stance against Aids. 

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Presenter: Emily Webb
Producer: Eric Mugaju

Image: Philly Lutaaya
Courtesy of Tezra Lutaaya

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