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MEDICINE & HEALTH

MEDICINE AND HEALTH

Our goal for the academic year of 2018/2019 is to fund 12 students in the field of Medicine & Health.
7 of 12 students (58%) funded so far this academic year
7 of 12 students (58%) funded so far this spring
There’s a significant shortage of medical expertise in East Africa, which is extra visible during the Covid-19 pandemic we are experiencing right now. There is a lack of doctors, nurses, radiologists, medical researchers and other professions within Medicine & Health.  As a consequence, it’s difficult to offer emergency treatment and long-term care, let alone combating the spread of illnessess such as HIV and malaria, and pandemics like Covid-19 and Ebola.

Right now, it is more important than ever to support our future health care workers. Join us and support #onemoredoctor and #onemorenurse!

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CURRENT STUDENTS

Do you prefer to donate to a specific student in the field of Medicine & Health? Get to know our current students that are not yet fully funded below and choose who to support.
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WITHIN THIS FIELD
Medicine
Frank Ngailo
If I treat people and they gain their strength back, they can do their jobs and build our community, and the nation as a whole.
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Medicine
Emile Hezron
I have been inspired by the health situation in our country and I want to make sure that my small community has access to a hospital.
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Medicine
Christine Leons Mmanda
I chose to study this field because I was inspired to help my community to treat those who now pass away because of the lack of professional doctors in my nation.
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Medicine
Rahabu John Nyambweta
I want to become a five star doctor and neurosurgeon which means to get a good relationship with my patients regardless of their financial status.
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Medicine & Surgery
Bob Driwale
My dream is to become a surgeon to reduce mortality rates and improve the health standards of Uganda. The low number of surgeons leads patients not being treated or referred to foreign hospitals they cannot afford.
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Medicine
Gladis Donath Kimario
I want to specialize on gynecology and pediatric because I want to work with and for people.
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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Elizabeth Temba
I decided to choose the field because I like it and due to the social health problem that we are facing in our society.
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Medicine
Frances Kunyala
I want to be the best doctor ever.
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Medicine
Alice Shirima
My mother had cancer and recovered. After seeing that, I decided to become a doctor so that I could treat and help people.
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Medical Laboratory
Agness Wililo
I will make change by educating people to do medical check-ups before taking drugs when they are sick.
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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Patience Namuyanja
I long and I strive to be part of a team that is to discover cure for those incurable diseases since I can't do it alone!
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Physiotherapy
Rebecca Kugonzakwayesu
My dream job is being one of the best physiotherapists in Uganda and the world at large!
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Clinical Dentristy
Titus Peter Kihwili
I choose my field of study because most people in the community suffer from dental problems.
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Clinical Medicine
Mussa Wilson Majejele
My dream is to be a doctor and especially be a gynaecologist' by profession.
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Medicine & Health
Bakari Adamu Saidi
The hardships which are have passed through in course of a lifetime are the ones which inspired me to keep on fighting and thriving for a better life.
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Nursing
Regina Mrisho Ntiluli
My dream job is to help mothers during delivery and to take care newborns to reduce complications of maternal and newborns during their lives.
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Clinical Medicine
Maiko Gwivaha
I was inspired to choose to study clinical medicine because I want to help the community by giving different education about health issues.
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Medicine
Konrad Oginga
My dream job is to become a medical doctor. I really like to volunteer to serve others.
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Human Nutrition
Elina Stanslaus Selestine
I want to support people to improve their health by providing expert nutrition and dietary advice.
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Clinical Dentristy
Godwin Erasto Joseph
My dream job is to become a dentist and provide dental treatment and oral health education.
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A person educated in this field may ensure that:

More patients can receive faster and better treatment
larger epidemics such as malaria, hiv, ebola and COVID-19 are mitigated and the medical disaster risk is reduced
giving birth is safer for both mother and child

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MEDICINE & HEALTH

While we have now expanded our scope to include Uganda, our initial focus was on Tanzania.

Sweden

33742
DOCTORS IN TOTAL
4.2
DOCTORS PER 1 000 CITIZENS
100 %
OF ALL BIRTHS ARE ATTENDED BY SKILLED MEDICAL STAFF
STATISTICS FROM THE WORLD BANK

Tanzania

2 252
DOCTORS IN TOTAL
0.1
DOCTORS PER 1 000 CITIZEN
63,5 %
OF ALL BIRTHS ARE ATTENDED BY SKILLED MEDICAL STAFF
STATISTICS FROM THE WORLD BANK
OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH TETRA LAVAL IS EXPANDING
OUR PARTNERSHIP 
WITH TETRA LAVAL 
IS EXPANDING
Thanks to our successful partnership with Tetra Laval, Help to Help has been able to apply its acclaimed model in Uganda. Now we can empower 50 selected youths and sponsor their education in engineering, medicine, nursing, teaching and much more. This cooperation is an important part in Help to Helps vision of enabling higher education for 1000 East African promising young talents by 2020. 

In Uganda there is a great need to increase the portion of educated people as they currently only represent 4 % of the country’s 41 million citizens.  This results in a startling shortage of educated professional, with for example only 81* professional anaesthetists in the country. Compare this to Swedens 2000 anaesthetists for its 10 million citizens and you can see that there is a big challenge.  

“We want to be part of - and contribute to Help to Helps 2020 vision. Help to Helps work has seen good results where the majority of the students graduate, finds employment and contributes to society and their families. We are convinced that they will be able to achieve the same results in Uganda. There are only two ways to develop a country, and that is to ensure food supply and give everybody the opportunity of education. We at Tetra Laval work with the first option every day, and now we will be able to tackle the other through Help to Help.”
- Jörgen Haglind, Senior Vice President Group Communications, Tetra Laval.  

“I am very happy about our partnership with Tetra Laval. As one of the biggest companies in Sweden they can, together with us, give more young people the education that is so vital to their futures. Today we have already enabled 208 degrees and our vision is to fund 1000 students by 2020.”
-
Malin Cronqvist, Founder and CEO of Help to Help.
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