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Curating the History of HIV in Uganda exhibition - January to December 2018

The Genesis...... The journey for this project began in January 2017 while I was doing some short term assignments for The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO). I was assigned to set up a TASO museum. In addition to that assignment, I requested to re-organise the now TASO College of Health Sciences library and to set up an information archive. My idea was that the old library material would be archived and the information in storage used to set up the historical museum. While doing this, I was informed by the TASO Executive Director - Dr. Michael Etukoit, to contact the Ugandan Academy for Health Innovation and Impact, based at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI). We were to write a joint proposal to organise an exhibition on old Information Education and Communication/Behavior Change Communication material developed in Uganda or for Uganda during the 1980s and 1990s. As a member of their advisory board, he had mentioned that TASO was going to set up a museum. The other member...
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Genesis

When I enrolled for a Bachelors in Librarianship, I had absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into. My first semester was something I hardly paid attention to. However, by the 3 semester / 1 semester of my Second year, I realised that this was my life and that I should therefore embrace it. Then began my relationship with all things Information Management.  In 2004, I enrolled for a Masters in Librarianship, but wasn't able to complete it due to some things I won't go into. I then enrolled for a Masters in Information and Library Studies at Aberystwyth University in 2011. By the time I finally got a visa to go study, there was a job opening for a Librarian at my then work place. I was told that they wanted someone with a qualification in IT. Now if you are a librarian or IT professional, you know running libraries requires certain skills. So unless you have both qualifications, you will not be able to run a library.Anyway, I withdrew my application and went to Abery...
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