Dear UNAS Fellows, Members, Partners, Supporters, and all stakeholders,
What is it about the sciences that inspires us? For me, it has always been about helping my patients. In the early 1990s, when I returned home to Uganda as a young doctor, I recognized that the best way to serve my country and my patients—many of whom were dying unnecessarily to HIV/AIDS—was to use the sciences to make clear their pain and suffering, and also to identify possibilities to alleviate it. This idea of the sciences, as a tool to help illuminate the depths of our problems and reveal the possibilities for a better future, is one that is dear to my heart.