Imma working lady!

I’ve decided to take up blogging again. I figure it’s easier for me to keep in touch, and less of a nuisance for people who don’t want to read emails or facebook messages from me. Anyway so too much has happened since last year for me to try and take up from my last blog. I will just start a new entry with something that happened really recently. To give some background details, I now work at James P. Grant School of Public Health in Bangladesh. The work is very interesting, and the atmosphere dynamic and female dominated so for those who know me well, I am sure you can tell how perfect it is for me.

Anyway I am involved in a couple of projects that belong to the Center for Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS a collaborating center between UNAIDS and BRAC School of Public Health. I’ve recently helped to complete an HIV stakeholders project, where we interviewed various key stakeholders working in the HIV field in Bangladesh to identify success, challenges and opinions on ways to move forward. The work was really helpful in giving me a good solid background on what has been going on in the HIV/AIDS field in the past and at present. The report was recently submitted to UNAIDS and my name is there as part of the research team!

I also helped coordinate and MC'd a student seminar to raise awareness about HIV to students from 6 public and private universities. That went really well and I’ll have a lot more to say about it in my next entry.