Juliet Babirye, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., is a lecturer in infectious disease and non-communicable disease control in the Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda. She’s conducted research around the globe on topics including disease prevention, AIDS and mortality rates of […]
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Brian Esele and Joseph Makoba returned to Uganda this summer after a medical rotation in Iowa with new friends, new health care insights and wonderful memories. Esele also accumulated a notebook full of lessons learned. “I was struck by the
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While he was growing up, Charles Loponi’s mother and grandmother were traditional birth attendants, and his maternal grandfather was a local healer and herbalist. “I came from that lineage of people helping others,” he says. Lydia Mbatidde is the first in her family to
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