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...