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Tag Archives: HIV/AIDS
aids programs in financial crisis.
For anyone interested in what America is doing about AIDS in Africa, this is very important (very true) reading: In Uganda, AIDS War Is Falling Apart Unfortunately, a lot of the progress we’ve made in the last decade is beginning … Continue reading
questions i get.
This is a sampling of anonymous questions from the secondary school students I have been training on HIV/AIDS. Note the different slang kids use here! (click on the photo to enlarge and read). When I teach, I am always amazed … Continue reading
what i do.
Since I’m flying home this Sunday, I thought I’d write an entry summing up what I’ve been up to here in Uganda. My writings about work have been few and far between, but I really have been working a lot, … Continue reading
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Tagged HIV/AIDS, Livelihoods, OVC programs, Peace Corps Uganda, Photos, VSLA
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working on the edge.
These days, I’m spending lots of time doing “secondary” work (that is, outside of my originally assigned organization) in a place called Malaba. It will take a few entries to describe what this work entails, but I’m first going to … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Borders, Drinking, HIV/AIDS, Peace Corps Uganda, Violence
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make wiseful decisions.
In case all that was too long, boring, and un-funny for you… The Ugandan government’s HIV/AIDS education initiative includes a component calling for schools to have make “talking compound.” This means that the administration post signs, typically written in all capital letters, with various … Continue reading
act.
Today is World AIDS Day. What will you do? Over 40 million people around the world are living with HIV or AIDS. In 2006, over 4 million people were newly infected with HIV. 40,000 of these cases are in the … Continue reading
emlsewhere. 