Responding with Compassion and Serving with Excellence Through Catalyzing Contexts for Universal Access to Antiretroviral Therapy: A Story of Long-lasting Love Shared in Many Households in Greater Masaka Region, Uganda
Picture Taken in 1987: Sister Ursula Sharpe, Medical Missionary of Mary (MMM), the Founder of Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organisation providing psychosocial support (PSS) to newly identified Persons Living with HIV in Kasensero, Rakai District. Excerpt: This is a story given by Samuel Waliggo Ssegawa Who is the Executive Director of MOD Public Health Foundation Uganda, Worked as a Health Promotion Nurse from 2007-2017 at Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organisation (KM) in Uganda founded by the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM) from Ireland in 1987, which Pioneered Home Based Care Programmes for Persons living with HIV (PLHIV) Interviewer (A Global Health Specialist): TB, HIV, and Malaria Prevention have taken me to 25 African countries. There are several iterative interventional models that I can point fingers at but the one that embeds the Family-Based Therapy Techniques which in essence utilise the household as a healing space within familiar communities strik...