Malaria, Maternal & Child Mortality 23 April 2009

An I.V. had to be inserted into her head because all of her other veins were collapsed from dehydration.
As I stood watching helplessly, all I could think of was:
“What would I do if this was my child?”
One evening last month when I was in Uganda, I met a beautiful little …

 Malaria, Medical & Health Programs 22 February 2009

February 19th, 2009
Save For Health Uganda  is an organization based in Luweero that provides community-based health insurance schemes to more than 5,000 clients. Many of these clients use Bishop Asili as their health care provider. Save For Health has now partnered with Bishop Asili in distribution of over 3,000 mosquito …

 Daily Life, Malaria 30 October 2008

October 30th, 2008Well it was bound to happen and so eventually of course it did. I got malaria and it was awful on every level imaginable. I won’t get into the gory details, but I was confined to my bed for several days. When I finally emerged out of my …

 HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Medical & Health Programs, Volunteer Spotlight 8 August 2008

August 8th, 2008(Left: Allen of the Community Outreach Team Right: Patient of BA clinic)Nicholyn and I spent the morning with John and Allen of The Bishop Asili Community Outreach Team practicing asking the survey questions for the Mosquito Net Baseline survey. After interviewing several people we discovered that a few …

 Malaria, Medical & Health Programs 4 August 2008

August 4th, 2008
Today, I sat in on one of the many of Nicholyn’s meeting with the Bishop Asili Community Outreach Group over the last month. They spent the afternoon discussing the next steps for planning the mosquito net distribution. They spoke about the importance of pre-testing the questions that they …