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Meet The Young Woman In Uganda Advocating For Women’s Health. Her Secret? Love What You Do.

Meet The Young Woman In Uganda Advocating For Women’s Health. Her Secret? Love What You Do.

“In my four years of clinical practice, I witnessed how much misinformation resulted in serious health problems for the public,” Brenda says. “Health education matters a lot in Uganda because the prevalence of infectious and non-communicable diseases is still very high.”Indeed, the prevalence of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and cancer has increased rapidly in years past, accounting for 35 percent of the country’s deaths in 2014, according to the World Health Organization.