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Into Africa, out of academia : a doctor's memoir / Kwan Kew Lai.

In 2006, Kwan Kew Lai left her full-time position as a professor in the United States to provide medical humanitarian aid to the remote villages and the worn-torn areas of Africa. This memoir follows her experiences from 2006 to 2013 as she provided care during the HIV/AIDs epidemics, after natural...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Lai, Kwan Kew (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Inc., [2020]
Subjects:
Lai, Kwan Kew > Travel > Africa.
Women physicians > United States > Biography.
Medical assistance, American > Africa.
Public health > Africa > International cooperation.
AIDS (Disease) > Africa.
AIDS (Disease)
Medical assistance, American.
Public health > International cooperation.
Travel.
Women physicians.
Africa.
United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: 2005, The South Asian Tsunami, My First Mission in Medical Volunteering
  • Part I-HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Medical Care in Africa, 2006-2013
  • Tanzania: 2006, Mentoring in Rural Mtwara with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI)
  • Uganda: 2006, Teaching at the Infectious Disease Institute, Makerere
  • University in Kampala, Uganda
  • Kenya: Post the 2007 Presidential Election
  • South Africa: 2009
  • Nigeria: 2009
  • Malawi: 2013, My First Mission with Médecins Sans FrontieÌ⁰res
  • Part II-Medical Care for Internally Displaced People and Refugees in Africa, 2011-2013
  • Back to Uganda: 2011, The Nakivale Refugee Camp
  • Libya: 2011, Arab Spring
  • Kenya: 2011, The Drought and Famine of the Horn of Africa
  • Uganda: 2012, The Nyakabande Transit Refugee Camp for the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Unity State, South Sudan: 2013, Providing Medical Care after the Civil War
  • Afterword-Non Ministrari sed Ministrare.

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