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Author: Denis Saire

Denis is from Uganda. He graduated from International Health Sciences University in Kampala, Uganda, with a Bachelors of Science in Public Health. He also holds a diploma in Clinical Medicine and Community Health from Mbale School of Clinical Officers in Uganda. While practicing medicine at Kyetume Health Center, a faith-based nonprofit health unit in the rural areas of the Mukono district in Uganda, he changed the approach to disease management from curative to preventive. With his help, community-based disease prevention programs were initiated. Notably, he initiated the very successful water and sanitation program that reduced the incidence of diarrheal diseases among local children by more than a half. Denis worked at Kyetume Health Center for five years before joining GHC. He is motivated by present and anticipated challenges and he works hard to achieve set goals.

ARVs: A neccesary evil

I appreciate the importance of Anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs in the management of HIV/AIDS. They have awesomely improved the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and helped to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. However, it is also true that ARVS have compromised efforts to eliminate HIV/AIDS. Consider the story of Uganda. Prevalence of HIV/AIDS was […]

The hidden side of photography

Think twice before you throw away or delete that photo from your album; you never know when it might be of help at some point just like it happened to me. My organsation Action Africa Help International has been struggling to establish an Anti-retoviral therapy (ART) clinic in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement to increase access to […]

Identifying bright spots

In Kyangwali Refugee settlement, there is a weekly market which used to operate every Sunday. At the beginning of this year, for reasons I do not know, the market was shifted to Tuesdays. We had no idea what effects this would have on our work in the settlement. On a typical Tuesday, the majority of […]

A hungry man needs food first

While on a visit to a relative in the rural areas about five years ago, I encountered an eleven year old boy — half naked, and even the little clothing on his body was in tatters. I was not bothered by his appearance. The educationist in me was only concerned with why he was not […]

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