Uganda

Adapting, but staying the course in times of crisis

A note from Deborah Mensah, Executive Director Who would have thought that our world could change so drastically over a few short months? The COVID-19 crisis has undoubtedly changed your sphere in a significant way. Some of us have lost family and friends. Some of us have lost our jobs and livelihoods. Many have struggled …

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Graduate – and game changer – Moses Kyangwa

Moses Kyangwa is a public health scientist from Uganda’s Busoga region. He graduated from Save the Mothers’ Master of Public Health Leadership program in October, 2015. Today, at 30 years of age, he remains enthusiastic about promoting maternal health and the overall well-being of women and children—particularly in rural Uganda where so many die of …

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Fistula; in Uganda, it’s not a foreign word

  Patients and nurses of the fistula ward at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda, including, at far left the young “daughter on the ward,” and at back, third from right, STM’s Academic Director Dr. Justus Barageine, fistula surgeon.    Fistula. To most inhabitants of the Global North, the word is foreign. To Dr. Justus Barageine, Save …

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Fistula patients and nurses
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