Challenges

In the past few days, my project has really come together. I'll be doing a continuing education on hypertension for the nurses here in Uganda. Because internet access is not pervasive throughout some of the communities/villages that these nurses are working in, Makerere University, Johns Hopkins, and the Uganda Council of Nursing and Midwifery are coming up with CDROMs to disseminate these 20-30 minute lectures given by Makerere faculty. It's my job to come up with the framework of the content, and the evaluation process, although by the time this is implemented, I will no longer be here in Uganda. Hypertension (and non-communicable disease in general) is definitely a priority, especially since one study I found during my literature review had shown that Rukungiri district, in rural Southwestern Uganda, had a 30.5% prevalence of hypertension. Yikes!