Baranyikwa is no Longer Alive
Dismas Baranyikwa, a sixteen-year-old HIV positive died on April 23, 2004 after a long period of agony in Kanembwa Camp.
The late Baranyikwa was officially known as HIV/AIDS carrier in 2003 after a hot campaign conducted by “Stop-Sida Nkebure Uwumva” in Kanembwa Camp, an association initiated by Noe Sebisaba, the first person in Kanembwa Camp, and probably in Kibondo District, to overtly announce that he is HIV positive.
The young Baranyikwa’s death touched so many people, including Noe Sebisaba who, till the moment, was taking him as his own son.
The innocent Baranyikwa, like all his bothers and sisters, died from the epidemic HIV/AIDS contracted from their parents.
The death of Baranyikwa is a big loss of a charitable person who had devoted all his efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Kanembwa Camp. He was a testimony that although children are not involved in sexuality, they are not exempted from contracting HIV/AIDS.
Yet a young boy, he was always attacking some promiscuously behaving parents to redress their behavior so as to give children their right to life. A number of parents have been forced to a sour conviction of their guilt before the unexhausted psychological attack of Baranyikwa.
He was a brave child who had a rather sturdy standpoint quite different from his peers, even feared by adults, as it was his wish that all sexually irresponsible parents should be publicly blamed condemned.
Baranyikwa passed away when his adoptive parent, Noe Sebisaba, was in Dar-es-salaam where he was attending a seminar on HIV/AIDS eradication under the association known as Movement of Men against AIDS in Tanzania (MMAAT).
By Renovat Nimbona, Tumaini-Iringa