This summer, I'll be interning at an NGO called Health Alert Uganda (more information below) through an organization called GlobeMed (more information below) in northern Uganda for 11 weeks. I had my travel clinic for medications and immunizations on Wednesday and I discovered that my insurance doesn't cover my malaria medication or any immunizations. I had budgeted $300 for medications/immunizations but the total will end up being $792.84. Help keep me malaria-free by donating to my cause!
Health Alert Uganda
Health Alert Uganda’s over-arching mission is to support children in Gulu who are infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. HAU was founded in 2005 as the civil war between the Ugandan military and the Lord's Resistance Army came to a close. As an intern there, I will be evaluating and expanding a seed-lending program and developing a nutrition program.
GlobeMedGlobeMed is a national student-led non-profit that aims to strengthen the movement for global health equity by empowering students and communities to work together to improve the health of the impoverished around the world. GlobeMed has partnered with HAU for 3 years and each year, four interns (called the GROW- GrassRoots Onsite Work - team) travel to Gulu during the summer to implement projects.
Medications/Immunizations
Polio vaccine - $56
Yellow Fever vaccine - $107
Oral Typhoid - $44.84
Mefloquine (malaria medication) - $585
Malarone would be $900
Doxycycline would be $105 (not getting this because it makes your skin more sensitive and at least twice as likely to sunburn, which is especially problematic in Africa near the equator)
Total: $792.84
Mefloquine price computation:
$70 per 2 week prescription
2 weeks before departure + (75 days/7 days) in country + 4 weeks after return = 16.7 weeks
16.7 * $70 = $1170/2 weeks = $585
Medications/Immunizations
Polio vaccine - $56
Yellow Fever vaccine - $107
Oral Typhoid - $44.84
Mefloquine (malaria medication) - $585
Malarone would be $900
Doxycycline would be $105 (not getting this because it makes your skin more sensitive and at least twice as likely to sunburn, which is especially problematic in Africa near the equator)
Total: $792.84
Mefloquine price computation:
$70 per 2 week prescription
2 weeks before departure + (75 days/7 days) in country + 4 weeks after return = 16.7 weeks
16.7 * $70 = $1170/2 weeks = $585
