GHC Training 2014: Global Health and Development Overview
We’ve just wrapped up our third day of Training – what a whirlwind of ideas, energy, and new connections! The first three days of Training are dedicated to providing an overview in global health and development, since fellows join GHC from a variety of backgrounds – for many people, this is their first foray into […]
GHC’s Training Institute 2014 Has Begun!
It’s our favorite time of year at Global Health Corps! This weekend, our 128 new fellows arrived at Yale University for our annual intensive Training Institute. They join us (jetlagged but excited!) from all corners of the globe: from as far as Zambia and Nepal to as close as New Jersey and New Orleans. Over […]
The Untold Benefits of the GHC Felowship
Next month (July 2014) will be the last month of my fellowship placement at my host organisation – Action Africa Health International (AAHI) in Kyangwali refugee settlement, where I have had a wonderful fellowship year, I must say. AAHI is an African-led, international non-governmental organization, based in Nairobi, Kenya, that supports livelihood-challenged communities in East […]
National Health Care System In Uganda
Uganda has an organized national health system and health delivery in place within the strategic frame work and focus. (HSSIP 11,July 2010) The national health system is comprised of both private and public sectors. The private health sector is comprised of Private Not for Profit (PNFP), Private Health Practitioners (PHPs), and Traditional Contemporary Medicine Practitioners. […]
How viable are technological inventions for social transformation in Africa today?
This blog is partially inspired by my belief that Africa has within itself the ability to self-propagate into the beautiful and successful continent that so many have dreamt of, and partially by a TED talk from a brilliant handsome Kenyan boy called Richard Terere. A TED-talk, I highly recommend to all those who seek solutions […]
Menstrual Hygiene Management: A Path To Human Dignity
Some of my favorite moments this year have been unexpected conversations. Over Easter weekend, I was sitting by the local spring in Kibeho, the rural Rwandan community where Claude and I are serving our fellowship year, when a woman tapped me on the shoulder – Miriwe! Bonjour! Hello! – and sat down beside me. Meet […]
How many can we save / Why it matters for me.
“Every day 1400 girls and women die giving birth and 99 percent of them are in developing countries” UNICEF, 2003. “More than 1 million babies die on the day of their birth every year” Save the Children, 2014. How many can we save? One? Two? A hundred? A thousand? As years come and pass the […]
Accountabilities
One of the first things I noticed when I started working at Baylor-Uganda was the strange strings of numbers and letters everywhere, etched into tables and chairs, engraved into computers. It didn’t take long to understand what they were: identifiers to connect the items with their respective grant budget lines. And it didn’t take long […]
The magic of having a healthy baby.
It’s always one’s dream to have a healthy baby at the right time. One may ask which is the right time to have a baby? While I have been practicing in the health field, I have come to learn that the right time is: When both partners are ready and willing to take on responsibility, […]
From Hospitals to Villages
One of the topics that continues to cause debate among healthcare professionals in developing countries is the comparative value of clinical versus public health careers. There is a tendency to rate one over another. Some claims state that clinical practice is the heart of healthcare because doctors deal directly with sick people, who are the […]