Contribution to the “Girls Act” Kisoboka

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Georgewilliam Kalibbala

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Mar 14, 2020

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I was pivotal in a girl’s campaign “Girls Act” at AIDs Healthcare Foundation, Uganda Cares, making sure young girls get the true and rightful sexual reproductive health and rights information to make informed choices in their lives. Through the project, I reached out to over 123 young girls with the best practices on good menstrual hygiene management to provision of how-to best handle complications associated with painful menses. The project restored self-esteem among young girls, inspired them career-wise, and mentored them on how to succeed with a career in the STEM field.

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Georgewilliam Kalibbala

Georgewilliam DMLT, BBLT, MPH Scholar, is an aspiring infectious diseases epidemiologist, with a 7-year clinical laboratory practice in an HIV/TB setting in low resourced communities. George has profound expertise in running fully stocked, equipped and maintained public health labs, designing and running community-based interventions that promote health hence contributing to diseases surveillance. Currently, doing a Master of Public Health with an epidemiology and biostatistics concentration at Washington University in St. Louis, learning skills (research, academic writing etc) to solve public health issues using a transdisciplinary approach. Worked as a Laboratory Supervisor at the AIDs Healthcare Foundation, Uganda Cares for a period of 7 years, contributing to accurate clinical disease diagnosis to guide clinical acumen in People living with HIV/AIDs. Captured and tested digitalized e-health education and pre-recorded sessions to run on screens in a patient waiting area on top of running thousands of samples for microbes’ detection.

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