Leap-frogging Development
“Let’s focus on the opportunities, not the challenges,” my co-worker offered. In a conversation about reaching health care workers through internet-based platforms and applications, this was a bold statement. How could you not consider the fact that many of the health care workers we were trying to reach in rural areas didn’t have electricity? Yet, […]
Sample Transport
It’s quite mind blowing how we take a lot of things for granted and think…or rather not think that it could be a big deal for someone somewhere. Come to think of it, if something has already been deemed worthy of being taken for granted then who would have a minute to think of the […]
Breast Feeding: A Fundamental Human Right
A new law in the United Arab Emirates makes it compulsory for mothers to breastfeed their babies for two years. Under the legislation a wet nurse will be provided for any woman who is unable to breastfeed for health reasons. This sounds like gagging mothers to do their duty and responsibility, and it sounds controversial […]
Homosexuality: Understanding Human Diversity
I am led into writing about my experiences and opinion following the disheartening responses coming from fellow Africans on the continued homosexuality debate. I have had some peer debates on this issue both before and after becoming a Global Health Corps fellow through which some people may have or had different thoughts and questions about […]
Key Takeaways from 2013
It’s been a bit. So, I thought to share a few lessons I learned from the past year, before the hype dies down and the takeaways evolve beyond the realm of 2013. They are in no specific order, and I warn you, I may rumble at times but here goes! Emerge from trying circumstances with […]
We Don’t Care (or maybe we do).
My generation is commonly referred to as the “Millennials” (see also, “self-centered”, “over confident”, “entitled”, etc.) Roughly born between 1980-2000, the core of this generation is in their early 20’s-early 30’s. By this time most of us have likely held a variety of jobs, studied a variety of things, and most of us hold a […]
Switching Lenses
I remember that day in Yale when all fellows that were to be based in Uganda working on health systems quality improvement held a discussion on how to go about their kind of work, what it takes, and how to support each other. What immediately came to my mind was the question of what kind […]
Getting to zero new HIV infections: Would mandatory testing get us there?
“A lion that kills, is one that does not roar”, goes a famous Savannah grassland African saying. “It is one that crouches and lays quietly in the calmly swaying savannah grasses, patiently crawling behind its unsuspecting victims”, goes the saying with further elucidation. The savannah grassland residents’ question then is, “what if we burnt down […]