The Gender based violence monster in our nation!!!
June 4th 2012, 9: 40 PM: Thursday night the phone rings, a voice answers ‘Hello this is 990 how can I help you’ ‘Please help me I can’t do this anymore he did it again please please help me he’ll kill me if I don’t get out of this’ The voice spells desperation a cry […]
Encounters with the faces of social determinants of health
2014 was quite a year for me. I left a job in advertising to purse a role that put in me touch with my passion for social justice and opened me up to a whole other world – the world of global health. The training at Yale gave me knowledge that I would not have […]
Finding Freedom for Adolescents
In less than two months Zambia will host the ARSH 2014 Adolescents symposium with the theme ‘A Time to Act’. The coming of this event got me thinking about a story I was documenting concerning an HIV positive youth. The youth was born HIV positive and hence had to live with the stigma associated with […]