"They wouldn’t be so many as to overwhelm the budget. We should be able to handle all of those patients who are in immediate need of treatment for their very survival."

"As a young person, the biggest hurdle was the stigma and discrimination because of sickle cell."

"If you’re passionate about anything, just start up. Just start, even if you’re one person; along the way you’ll build and be able to grow it. You just have to start … Do not wait for anything. Just start."

"This is an individual honour, but I don’t work alone. I work with a team and so this will exponentially increase the visibility of what we are doing to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic."

"We can’t really work from home 100%. Our experiments happen in the lab, so you have to find time to go onto campus."

"It is not the same way you see it today.it was a new disease puzzling all doctors with severe diarrhea, frequent fevers, severe slimming and itchy skin rush."

"If we don’t get increased support, not only from PEPFAR, but the global community, we may lose ground and start losing the impressive gains that we have achieved over the last seven years."

"Some of the women get the disease during pregnancy and they don't know about it, so they end up producing a child with HIV.Some of them take the medicine when they want This makes the viral load very high, increasing the risk of transmission to the baby."

"If you look at the group,we follow at MUJHU,3,000,the prevalence of mother -to-child transmission of HIV is at zero percent.None of them transmitted the virus to the baby.They are on treatment and are followed regularly (by our health workers).But the national prevalence is at around 5 percent."

"Worldwide, sickle cell hemoglobin disorders lead to a substantial burden of disease that is not adequately addressed. Accurate data are lacking, but the worldwide estimate for neonates born with sickle cell disease each year is 400,000, including 300,000 with sickle cell anemia. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that 50%-80% of children affected die before five years."

"Not every site has the capacity to do what we do in Mulago and Kawempe.Some mothers don't start treatment at the required time."

"There are more than those who have already started on treatment. And therefore, my message was to request for continued support to Africa so that we can treat the huge numbers of people, who are still in desperate need of life-saving medicines."

"The numbers, not only in Uganda, but across Africa, are still many."

"We can find a cure for HIV/AIDS. In Uganda, we are not short of brains, we are not short of ideas, we are just short of funding. We’re always limping. And it needs to stop."

"Without any doubt, this honorary degree will increase the visibility of the work that we are doing at JCRC."

"It’s not a Ugandan-peculiar situation, but certainly there is need for increased funding."

"And yet those in immediate need of antiretroviral therapy are estimated to be over seven million."

"This is not a secondary school where people learn,pass exams and go.It is a university where students exchange ideas, conduct research and usher in new knowledge that benefits society and the globe."

"What we do in Uganda, and what affects people in Uganda, will eventually affect you, no matter where you live. If you have a long vision, you should be able to see this, but some people don’t."

"The earliest remuneration I saw was for my father and it was around Shs154, 500 at a time when I was right about to join campus."

"I had a wonderful, memorable and rich experience and its nothing as compared to what interns go through today as they are not valued."

"The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research have come new knowledge, techniques and instruments which have enabled some bedridden invalids to walk, the totally deaf to hear, the voiceless to talk, and, in the foreseeable future, may even make it possible for the blind to "see.""

"Parents who provided more learning and playing materials reported that their children did better."

"I am happy the way some states have aggressively responded to the coronavirus pandemic."

"The keys necessary to effectively battle this invisible army are testing, tracing, isolation and treatment."

"I am in total agreement with the NMA and the other health professionals. I know that our health professionals are well trained. We have regulatory bodies that regulate their training in addition to National University Commission (NUC) that provides the basic academic inputs for each course. All they need is adequate facilities and motivation to carry out their functions."

"What really hurt, is when the world is faced with a threat, a global threat like Omicron, the way you defeat a threat like this, is to stand together, is to work together, to join hands and to deal with threat head on. We should be building bridges, not barriers."

"In this pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is mandatory for our health workers and first line responders to protect them from being infected."

"The fact that they are always surrounded by people may have benefited them somehow."

"People who are immunocompromised face greater risks of adverse outcomes from infection with SARS-CoV-2."

"We stand in the midst of a massive reorganization of our intellectual and spiritual life, which has seized all areas of this life—not least in medicine. The central idea of the new Reich—that the whole is more than its parts, and that the Volk is more important than the individual—had to bring about fundamental changes in our whole attitude, since this regards the nation’s most precious asset, its health."

"I can do something positive that can prompt people to say: ‘Oh, so this is a Liberian author"

"It more than frustrates me, it pisses me off! That is not the narrative of my country in total. Whenever news comes out of there it dwarfs the country itself: it’ll be Charles Taylor in the Hague, or Ebola and thousands dead, but the positive stories don’t leak out further than the region"

"His seminal work, Murder in a Cassava Patch, was something I read very deeply and [it] took time to sink it in. I thought a lot about my writing when reading it, deciding the kind of crime fiction writer I wanted to be"

"In all the books that Cassava is promoting, they can see that this is not ‘Africa"

"A lot of people want to categorise you when you’re writing crime fiction [as an African] – ‘Which part of Africa are you writing about"

"I’m trying to showcase that when people write from anywhere in the world they’re telling stories that they can relate to"

"Well I think it would be some of the problems you find in general in undeveloped countries like the issues of literacy. A lot of women, they have the dreams to write but you need a back ground of education or some form of education and that’s something a lot of people still don’t have – a platform of elementary school education. But when you’re young, whatever you’re good at its something that people should encourage in you and that’s another thing. As Africans, we need to really engender that form of pride and motivate our children, regardless of what the child wants to do, I think we should support it. Because like I always say to people, the world had enough problems without having your families not backing you in pursuit of your dream. So we need to really pay attention, if you see a child has a gift, you should nurture that gift in your child because, I mean, there are African writers – men and women -- who fought against the odds but now they are household names in Africa. And these people came up in a time where the colonial perception of Africa was such that nobody could really bring anything positive out of this continent, so definitely no literary genius can come and these people really broke all the odds"

"So often the detective is a man and the woman is his lovely wife who the detective goes home to. We are just the background noise"

"in anything that you do, you have to have a lot of determination and self-confidence. Always persevere, be honest with your work and always be ready to take criticism. Be diligent and basically send your work around as much as possible."

"Science can be challenging but literature and art, that’s like home to me. I used to live in bookstores"

"I think usually a lot of African kids, if they have any artistic inclination, their parents tend not to really take it seriously because the market for artists won’t be serious. So you’re always told to have a degree in order to make a living out of it. So that was the same case with me, I never really took my writing seriously even though I have been writing since I was a kid"

"So crime really is a cross cutting in any society, I don’t care where you live in this world. Crime is publicist and I think with the way the world is now, crime is becoming a fascination for the public"

"It never occurred to me in my mind as an African I could actually get published and be on the shelves like those people"

"Mysticism is a theme that is wedded to African culture, that people see things and perceive things in different ways"

"Ashby accurately measured the life span of s to be up to 110 days, contradicting the perceived convention of an erythrocytic life span of only 14-21 days. She was best known for developing the Ashby technique for determining red blood cell survival, but also contributed to the diagnosis of and studied in the brain. Ashby was also an amateur pianist and composer with numerous compositions published between 1955-1968."

"Evidence is presented to show that there is no toxin producing the in . Partial evidence is presented to show that the periods of active blood destruction which are seen as the exception in pernicious anemia cases during a series of transfusions are due to the activity of the blood-destroying organs of the body rather than to the intrinsic weakness of the pernicious anemia blood corpuscle. It is questionable whether blood destruction is as important a factor in producing the anemia of pernicious anemia as it is at present usually assumed to be."