About me

Tom Rogers Muyunga-Mukasa is the founder of HIV Safari, a blog dedicated to HIV stories from around the world. He is also the co-owner of AIDS Blog Uganda, where he brings to light the stigma, discrimination and issues related to HIV in Ugandan homes or communities.

For over twenty years, Tom worked in creating interventions touching on nuanced needs of Persons Living With HIV most especially those who were isolated by economic, cultural, religious and status facets.  Along the way, he founded the Most At Risk Populations' Society in Uganda (MARPS in Uganda) in 2004 to provide emotional health counselling and support to people living with HIV in Uganda. As a Social Justice Practitioner, Tom chose to write about Sexuality, Orientation, Gender, Identity and health in Uganda at a time when homosexuality and heterosexuality have become thematic, trendy and topical in Uganda. He chose to name the blog Kampala Gay News, in which he writes about impact of stigma and discrimination to ARV access by anyone who is living with HIV. 

Tom has worked in 25 African countries, travelled widely in Europe and USA. He has worked with the Ugandan Ministry of Health, Boston Area HIV services, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco General Hospital Refugee Clinic, the San Francisco County No To Stigma Committee and The National HIV is Not A Crime Movement. He founded the Rainbow Networks Africa as a group of grassroots in starting and maintaining conversations and action around: HIV Laws and Gender expansive issues in Africa. He collects essays under the HIV Laws and Gender expansive issues in Africa. He has also concentrated on writing about Uganda. One can find this at Rainbow Network Uganda, where he brings to light nuanced HIV Laws and Gender expansive applications in Uganda.