Career Shifting
Being a Global Health Corps fellow does not require you to have come from a health background or have these huge experiences, but rather your passion and your commitment towards achieving your dream to fight for social justice. You can come from math, physics, history or any other background and still be able to shift […]
Until No Child has AIDS
HIV/ AIDS is still a challenge which the government of Zambia, with collaborated efforts, is trying to fight. Issues of stigma towards people that are infected with the virus has slightly gown down due to increased knowledge about HIV/AIDS and the acceptance that being HIV positive is not a death sentence. Child development can be […]
Research in Global Health
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the world.” Said Dr. Paul Farmer, the co-founder of a Boston based Partners In Health (PIH). Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB), Rwandan sister organization to PIH, operates in three rural districts (Burera, Kirehe and Kayonza) that previously had some of the […]
Behind Bars: Women’s Restricted Access to Reproductive Health in Prisons and Detention Centers
Today more than 200,000 women live in correctional facilities nationwide, and these numbers are continuing to grow at an alarming rate. In particular over the last ten years alone, the female prison population has grown faster than the male prison population. The conditions for prisoners are very difficult to withstand and many women in need […]
GAY in the Warm <3 of Africa
Tonight was special because a controversial film on a topic that is considered by many to be too taboo to even utter, “homosexuality,” was to be screened right here in Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi. The documentary film entitled “Umunthu” was contentious because it was setting in-motion a different kind of conversation on sexuality […]
It’s Not That Simple…
There are few tools more powerful in development work than the art of listening. However, moving one step further and channeling this tool through rigorous research offers us the unique opportunity to see inside complex sets of issues. Through our research, we are able to capture reality in a way that no amount of informal […]
The Potential Harms in Helping Others
Several weeks ago, my driver’s license fell out of my pocket during a rainy outreach shift with HIPS, a harm reduction organization that works with injection drug users, sex workers, and their communities in Washington, D.C. I assumed that it was lost forever to the storm drains of D.C., until I received a call from […]
eLearning without the e
Would you quit an online course if you repeatedly encountered this during a download? If you said no, you have a lot more patience than I do. Late last year, I tried, and failed, for an entire week to download a necessary player for an intro to CS edX course. I ultimately quit the course. […]
GHC increased my feeling that lots need to be done for social justice
During my second quarter as a GHC Fellow being placed in Burundi with Population Media Center (PMC), -a US nonprofit organization which is mainly oriented towards addressing the global challenge of overpopulation, I was more than passionate about the work that I was doing with my co-fellow Alex as a Project Coordinator. Not only I […]
Access to care through self-care
Spring has come and I couldn’t be happier! This winter I was sick more times than I have been during the last three years. Where I would have been down briefly once a year during the ‘flu-season’, I was pretty much down with something for the entire three to four months of winter. Coming from […]