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Kayima stated in an interview this weekend that she is HIV-negative despite having been in a romantic relationship with a person who lived with the infection, the late Pastor Augustine Yiga.
She revealed that she and Yiga discovered later in their relationship that they were discordant couples.
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Maggie Kayima
A discordant couple refers to long-term sexual partners in which one has a sexually transmitted infection and the other does not.
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“To this day, people still believe I am sick and even when I try to explain, they don’t believe me,” Kayima told Kayz in an interview.
“When I was dating the late pastor, I didn’t know his status. We were in love,” she remarked.
“It was not until he became very sick and went to South Africa in 2012; that was when he called me and told me he was starting on ARVs.”
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Singer Maggie Kayima
When Pastor Yiga returned to Uganda, Kayima says, she went with him to Mengo Hospital for testing and they were told that he was positive while she was not infected.
This was hard for her to believe. They went to two other health facilities and the same results came out. Later she travelled to South Africa, where she got the same negative results.
Kayima says she decided to stay with the ailing pastor and remained sexually active with him until they got irreconcilable disagreements.
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Maggie Kayima and the late Pastor Yiga
“I did not leave him because he was sick but because he became cruel and jealous, to the point where he had policemen and soldiers following me around. I was too exhausted.”
Life in the US
During the interview, Kayima also spoke out about her new life in the United States where run to in 2022 while fleeing persecution in Uganda.
There she says, she had to make big life adjustments including lowering her status to do demeaning work for survival.
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Singer Maggie Kayima
“I had to humble myself and accept to be employed even though in Uganda I used to be the boss hiring others,” she said.
Kayima also confirmed she is back in the dating market, and hopes to land herself a loving Ugandan man.
“I want a man who will be a friend to me. People dont believe I am single, but I am and I need a friend who will connect with me and be understanding. I don't care about money. I also don't want whites; I want a Ugandan,” she added.