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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
Clinical Medicine
Joyce Tanani
My dream job is to be a specialist of different diseases such as cervical cancer and breast cancer.
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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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Nursing
Grisellia Julius
I chose this field because of the health related challenges facing people in my community such as breast and cervical cancer, unfasa menstruation and early marriage
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Clinical Medicine
France Alon Buhaga
I was inspired by the life of people in the community where I am living as they die due to the shortage of doctors in our community.
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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Hussein Abdallah Hussein
I would like to educate people in the community on working hard in order to fight poverty to develop society and the nation at large.
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Clinical Dentistry
Simon Martin Joseph
My dream its to be a Dentist so that I can help my community . My community is suffering from dental cares and other dental problems.
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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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Veterinary Medicine
Florida John Mkata
I can contribute to society through my future profession by managing animals, providing education to the farmers and ensuring animals' health conditions by treating unhealthy animals.
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Nursing
James Jilla
My dream job is to become a midwife. This is because I want to help mothers and children who die during labour.
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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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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jesca Charles Sebastian
As a pharmacist it is my role to educate, campaign and be responsible for any challenge facing my community when it comes to the issue of antibiotic resistance and misuse of antibiotics.
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Medicine
Mussa Elisha
I choose to pursue doctor of medicine because of health related challenges facing my community such as lack of reproductive education which brings about maternal and perinatal death, unsafe menstruation in females and habit of giving birth at home instead of hospital.
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Clinical Medicine
Rahma Richard Hangaya
My dream job is to become a great doctor who can provide quality services to all people without discrimination.
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Nursing & MIdwifery
Tuzo Godlove Kyando
I want to be a changemaker in my society in various aspects and improve the health status for individuals in my society.
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Clinical Medicine
Hawa Juma Kondo
I want to make sure that children are growing up with good health in a community.
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Health Information Systems
Morice Masumbuko John
I was having a dream to become an IT expert based in a health related field.
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Human Nutrition
Dorothy Steven Mwambungu
I chose my field of study because it gives me opportunities to work while helping others.
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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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Medicine & Health
Ans Peter
The medical laboratory is the place where you can confirm the presence of any disease.
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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Fredrick Edward
Through pharmacy, I can provide counselling to people with HIV on the proper use of medicines.
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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

COMPARE MEDICINE & HEALTH

COMPARE
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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