Rose Busingye is the founder and president of MPI. Native of Kampala, Uganda, Rose Busingye moved to Kitgum in the north of the country as a teenager, which became a centre of guerilla activity when rebellion broke out in 1986. In this period she experienced first-hand the horrors of war when so many wounded people died from lack of assistance. It was from here that her decision to return to Kampala and enter the school of nursing at Nsambya Hospital was born. She graduated as a nurse and midwife in 1990.
From July 1990 to September 1992 she obtained a Scholarship to the Hospital of Varese, north of Milan, Italy, where she specialized in infectious diseases, heart surgery and maternity care.
On return to Uganda in 1992 she began working with HIV/AIDS patients and became skilled at counselling terminally ill people with HIV/AIDS. In June 2003 she founded Meeting Point International members.
Rose Busingye also participated as a speaker at numerous international meetings and conferences on the topic of HIV/AIDS Care:
2001 – Press Conference “Cor Unum” project – Rome (Rose speech to Pope JPII Lent);
2002 – Participation in the National AIDS Day, Kampala;
2003 – Awarded the ‘Servitor Pacis’ prize by the “Path to Peace” Foundation presided by the Permanent Delegation of the Holy See at the United Nations;
2005 – Conference at the Meeting for Friendship among Peoples, Rimini (Italy);
2006 – Intervention at the presentation of the encyclical letter by His Holiness Benedict XVI “Deus Caritas Est”;
2008 – Film Director Spike Lee presents the “Documentary Award” in the first Babelgum Online Film Festival for the documentary “Greater – Defeating AIDS” (on the work of Rose Busingye and Meeting Point International).
2008 – The President of the Manhattan Borough of the City of New York (NY) declares May 14th, 2008 the “Women of Meeting Point International of Uganda Appreciation Day”;
2009 – Participation at the Synod of African Bishops on Justice, Peace and Reconciliation; Rome (Vatican City);
2012 – Speaker at the 50th International Eucharistic Conference, Dublin (Rose’s testimony International Eucaristich Congress);
- Conference in Carpi (Italy);
2013 – Conference in Verona (Italy);
2014 – Speaker at a conference of Association Santa Lucia per la cooperazione e lo sviluppo tra i popoli Onlus.
2015 – Auditor at Bishops conference for Africa (Rome);
- Speaker at Human Dignity and Human Development. Inspiring approach to HIV/AIDS care at KELLOG INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, Indiana (USA);
- Speaker at University of Maryland Honours Collage. WHAT IT MEANS TO EDUCATE, Washington D.C.(USA);
2016 – Auditor at The role of Women in the church (Rome);
2017 – Speaker at RIO ENCONTRO. (Money, Church, Work, Health, Everything is serious. And the life?) Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (Rose Busingye’s Interview on what Meeting Point International is)
