Moses Musaazi
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Our friend and colleague Moses Kizza Musaazi, professor of engineering at Makerere University (Uganda), is battling lung cancer. Please join us in raising funds for his medical treatment. Time is of the essence so please contribute what you can, then add a bit more. Moses has devoted his life to improving the livelihoods of women and to enabling girls to achieve educational success by being able to go to school during their monthly menses. He now needs our support. This fundraising campaign has been launched by Moses' friends and collaborators at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA).
The list of Moses' friends and supporters is long but the effort to raise funds to support his medical treatment in the US has been initiated by University of Michigan faculty members Kelly Askew (Anthropology, African/Afroamerican Studies), Herbert Winful (Engineering), Massy Matumba (Nursing), Roy Clarke (Physics) and Daniel Burns (Mathematics). After researching different options for him to obtain treatment in Uganda, Germany and the USA, we received news that the immunotherapy clinical trial for advanced lung cancer at the West Virginia University Cancer Institute (WVUCI) may consider Moses for inclusion in their study. We thus are working on arrangements for him to come to the USA in the company of his son to undergo the final tests required to determine his eligibility for the clinical trial. The funds raised in this campaign will thus go towards the airfares for him and his son and their room and board expenses in Morgantown, West Virginia, where WVUCI is located. Moses very much wants to join this clinical trial if they admit him since he has not responded to the treatment he has received in Uganda.
Moses Musaazi won the second prize in the 2013 Siemens Stiftung Empowering People Award. He was honored for creating MakaPads, sanitary pads that have transformed the lives of thousands of disadvantaged girls and women in Uganda. You can hear him speak about MakaPads and the critical intervention they offer here , and you can read about his other accomplishments here .
We at the University of Michigan came to know of his work in 2009 and have been honored to work with him as a member of STEM-Africa Initiative ever since. Please join us in our efforts
The list of Moses' friends and supporters is long but the effort to raise funds to support his medical treatment in the US has been initiated by University of Michigan faculty members Kelly Askew (Anthropology, African/Afroamerican Studies), Herbert Winful (Engineering), Massy Matumba (Nursing), Roy Clarke (Physics) and Daniel Burns (Mathematics). After researching different options for him to obtain treatment in Uganda, Germany and the USA, we received news that the immunotherapy clinical trial for advanced lung cancer at the West Virginia University Cancer Institute (WVUCI) may consider Moses for inclusion in their study. We thus are working on arrangements for him to come to the USA in the company of his son to undergo the final tests required to determine his eligibility for the clinical trial. The funds raised in this campaign will thus go towards the airfares for him and his son and their room and board expenses in Morgantown, West Virginia, where WVUCI is located. Moses very much wants to join this clinical trial if they admit him since he has not responded to the treatment he has received in Uganda.
Moses Musaazi won the second prize in the 2013 Siemens Stiftung Empowering People Award. He was honored for creating MakaPads, sanitary pads that have transformed the lives of thousands of disadvantaged girls and women in Uganda. You can hear him speak about MakaPads and the critical intervention they offer here , and you can read about his other accomplishments here .
We at the University of Michigan came to know of his work in 2009 and have been honored to work with him as a member of STEM-Africa Initiative ever since. Please join us in our efforts
Co-organizers (4)
Kelly Askew
Organizer
Ann Arbor, MI
Roy Clarke
Co-organizer
Herbert Winful
Co-organizer
Dan Burns
Co-organizer