UNAIDS Executive Director, aeronautical engineer, politician, human rights activist, feminist, and Kiza Besigye's wife Winnie Byanyima, during the interview at Nation Centre, Nairobi on March 3, 2026.
There are people whose names travel faster than their faces. Winnie Byanyima is one of them. In Uganda, they know her as the fiery opposition figure's wife, a three-time MP, and the woman who helped write their country's constitution.
In global corridors, she is the Executive Director of UNAids, a United Nations Under-Secretary-General, and one of Africa's most uncompromising voices on social justice.
