A case for investment in local pharma in Africa
With 11% of the world’s population, and 25% of the global disease burden (and if I may add, 1% of the global health care expenditure), Africa never ceases to amaze many. Add to this, only 1% share of the world’s pharmaceutical markets is in Africa, and two thirds of the global value of pharmaceutical products […]
Little Things Count
“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen” – John Wooden The previous night, hardly 6 hours before, all bubbly, energetic, dancing, almost drunk. 5:30 am, my roommate now writhing in pain, a splitting headache, chills, a fever, malaise and joint pains… a diarrhea so vile… Hours on and it […]
Charity Begins at Home
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines community as “an interacting population of various kinds of individuals in a common location.” I came to appreciate this more when my local placement organization moved offices in October 2012 and became a part of a small and beautiful community of upper Naguru in Kampala. The size of about 4 hectares, […]
Karamoja
Hurtling down the rugged Soroti –Moroto road, I was simply excited at the prospect of a few days in a part of Uganda not many people get to see. I did not hear a thing, advice or whatever, that my supervisor said as I left my Kampala placement site for a journey I had clearly […]