The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) is founded in Uganda.
"Noerine Kaleeba was a physiohtherapist at Mulago Hospital until 1987 and an educator. She got her exam from the famous Makerere University in Kampala. She was the first really famous leading female African AIDS activist. Noerine’s husband was dying of AIDS in London around 1986. She visited Jonathan Mann at the WHO in Geneva and asked him how she could help him. This was way before ARV treatment so Mann said to her, ‘I can’t help your husband, but you can help by providing support for those infected and participate in prevention in your own country.” She then went back to Uganda and founded TASO (The AIDS Support Organization) in 1987, the first ever African support organization for AIDS. She did it part as a legacy to honor her beloved husband who died shortly after her visit to Jonathan Mann. TASO soon became a role model for how to provide support and care for people living with HIV and also for prevention to young people so they do not put themselves at risk. She has been the patron of TASO long after she left as Director. She has also been advisor to UNAIDS and to many other AIDS organizations. Now she has retired with all her memories in a small village outside Kampala." - Staffan Hildebrand