Naloxone: Another Tool in the Toolbox
Every day in the United States, 120 people die as a result of drug overdose. Deaths from drug overdose have been rising steadily over the last two decades and are now the leading cause of injury death in the United States [1]. In particular, deaths from overdose involving heroin have almost quadrupled from 2000 to 2013, with […]
Understanding Uganda’s MDG Progress
2015 may be just another calendar year, or maybe not, as it marks the final year for the implementation of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2015. The implementation years for the MDGs were 1990 to 2015. It is also a year away from 2016 – when Uganda holds its next general elections. I would like to […]
Whose Base Line?
On January 25th Zomba City health practitioners from across sectors came together to discuss the Zomba City Council Report on HIV and AIDS. I had the fortune to attend through representation of the Zomba-based NGO that I work for, as the Monitoring and Evaluation Fellow, the Art & Global Health Center Africa. I attended the […]
The Inspiration
In most of my childhood memories, there’s always been a single story about how to acquire HIV – promiscuous sex. Yet when I signed up to become a Global Health Corps fellow, i had no idea how, within a matter of months, this story would be changed. With a University degree, its ample to say […]