Moses Nsubuga, codenamed Super Charger, was formerly a Radio personality and singer. Aged approximately 56 years, the lanky subject of this story, has a marvelous story to his side, which is, first of all, a testament to God’s miraculous powers of healing. Based on the HIV scourge, Super Charger’s story is a stark reminder that though the virus is a nightmare, it’s not necessarily a death sentence.
The Gist
27 years ago, Super Charger’s relatives virtually declared him a dead man who was just clutching at straws. Under that stunning belief, an aunt with whom he was staying in Entebbe, returned his cousin to their ancestral village, at least to be closer to his eternal resting place ahead of his looming demise and burial.
The Aunt took the decision to supposedly spare the family of a two million shillings expenditure. This figure is what it required then, to transport a body back to their Kitalaganya ancestral village, located after Nakasongola, for burial. Upon his arrival at Kitalaganya village, Super Charger’s relatives, who were convinced beyond any lingering doubt of his imminent death, went ahead and dug a grave ahead of his actual demise.
In another dramatic act of advance preparation for his looming demise and burial, the relatives procured the necessary materials required to dress up Super Charger’s body ahead of his imminent death. Thereafter, the relatives reclined and waited for his final hour on earth, ahead of meeting his creator from across the bridge.
The dramatic acts, followed the victim’s failure to regularly take his critical life-saving drugs, which saw the virus developing a stubborn resistance to that critical line of treatment, crucial to boost an HIV victim’s immune system and to suppress the fatal disease.
Frail and unable now, to take care of his fragile situation by himself, Super Charger relocated to his aunt’s residence located in Entebbe. Here, after treating him without positive results, she returned him to the village to die, convinced that his condition was irreversible. But in a miraculous reversal of his misfortunes, a former member of Parliament from Buikwe, Sarah Nyombi, who was Super Charger’s bosom friend, fortunately, learned of his tribulations.
Immediately, Nyombi picked up the ailing man from Kitalaganya village, where he had been deposited to die. Deturmined to bankroll his required specialized medication, she brought him back to town. Nyombi’s swift intervention proved a game changer, resuscitating a man whose relatives had prematurely written off, leaving him dangerously teetering around his grave.
Nyombi’s action of compassion not only turned around a hopeless situation, but also potentially serves as an inspiration for those positively living with HIV, who may feel inclined to take their lives. Furthermore, the extremely commendable act of compassion potentially serves as an instruction to the relatives of HIV holders who may be nursing ideas of abandoning them to their devices.
Super Charger’s living experience dismantles the misguided notion that simply because someone has HIV, they are therefore as good as dead. The genesis of Super Charger’s HIV positive status, is traced to 1994. But, it was not until 1998 after his positive status was finally medically established.
That followed Super Charger getting unwell and suspected HIV to be the cause of his ill-health, based on his former reckless rounds of sex-capades. As he pondered on his next course of action, curiosity took the better of Super Charger, prompting him to go to the formerly Baumann House, premised at Uganda’s original HIV Testing and Treatment Center. His suspicion was proved spot on.
Upon disclosing to his wife, of his positive status, she unceremoniously abandoned him at Baumann House where, she had accompanied him to take the test. By way of a recap, Super Charger’s has been a story of adversity and of triumph over adversity all at the same time.
The story is overshadowed by acts of abandonment and of rescue by people who were central to the main actor’s life and heart. Most of all, Super Charger’s is a story anchored on perseverance, hope coupled with a strong desire to live amidst adversity posed by a tragic disease overcame by his never-say-die spirit.
As he continues to positively and graciously live, Super Charger’s fervent prayer and hope is that the much-awaited for, and still elusive cure for the virus, finds him alive and kicking. His prayer and hope is a pointer to his strong sense of hope that has kept him going since the dark days when he was written off and a grave for him dug ahead of his burial.
As the cure continues to defy top notch scientists, Super Charger, in the meantime, urges those carrying HIV to take the available treatment and life-support drugs religiously and to desist from acts that could spread the disease and those that can endanger as well as lead to premature loss of their lives.
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