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Noerine Kaleeba

Noerine Kaleeba is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Noerine Kaleeba rather than just read about it. In short: Noerine Kaleeba is a Ugandan physiotherapist, educator and AIDS activist. She is the co-founder of the AIDS activism group The AIDS Support Organization (TASO).

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Reference excerpt

Noerine Kaleeba is a Ugandan physiotherapist, educator and AIDS activist. She is the co-founder of the AIDS activism group The AIDS Support Organization (TASO). She is currently a program development adviser for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

Background Kaleeba specialised in orthopaedics, physiotherapy and community rehabilitation at Makerere University in Kampala, and the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic & District Hospital in Oswestry, England. She has worked as a physiotherapist at Mulago Hospital, and was the principal of Mulago School of Physiotherapy until 1987.

TASO In June 1986, Kaleeba received a call that her husband, Christopher, had become very sick while he was in England working on his master's in sociology and political science. He was diagnosed with AIDS. He died in January 1987, which caused Kaleeba to co-found a support group that same year, The AIDS Support Organization (TASO). The goal of the organization was to help provide support to people who have been diagnosed with AIDS, and their loved ones. The organization provides families of those who are infected with information about the disease and ways to provide care, without becoming infected with the disease as well. The organization also offers care, support and counseling, and mobilizes communities and neighborhood care for people with HIV/AIDS and their families. Based on the concept of "positive living", TASO was one of the first community responses to AIDS in Africa, and is today one of the leading examples in AIDS care and support and community education for prevention in resource-limited settings. Kaleeba worked as the executive director of TASO Uganda for eight years until 1995 when she retired, and was elected patron of the TASO movement.

Current Kaleeba still holds the position of patron of the TASO movement. She also works as a program development adviser, Africa, for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Since January 1996, she has been based at their secretariat in Geneva.

Accomplishments Kaleeba is the recipient of the following:

Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Nkumba University, Uganda, 2002 Doctor of Law degree at the University of Dundee, Scotland, 2005 Honorary Doctorate of International Relations (DIR) by the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, June 2009 Snr. Ashoka Fellow (2014) She has been awarded several international awards in recognition of her national and global anti-AIDS efforts, including:

The Belgian International King Baudouin Prize for Development, awarded to TASO in 1995 Doctor of Humane Letters, Honorius Causa, in 2000 Kaleeba has served on various national and international bodies, including:

The World Health Organization Global Commission on HIV/AIDS The Global AIDS Policy Coalition The Uganda AIDS Commission Chairperson for Action Aid International (2009) She has been a trustee of international NGO boards such as Maristopes International, Noah's Ark (Sweden), and is currently vice-chair of ActionAid. Her book, We Miss You All: AIDS In The Family, is an account of how HIV/AIDS enteredo her life, and how she came to be on the front lines fighting the disease.

See also HIV/AIDS in Uganda Uganda AIDS Orphan Children Foundation

References

External links

TASO website

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Noerine Kaleeba

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Noerine Kaleeba claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Noerine Kaleeba before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Noerine Kaleeba ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Noerine Kaleeba

In research: Noerine Kaleeba appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Noerine Kaleeba in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Noerine Kaleeba is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 20th-century Ugandan people, 20th-century Ugandan women, 21st-century Ugandan educators, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Noerine Kaleeba outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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What is Noerine Kaleeba in simple terms?

Noerine Kaleeba is a Ugandan physiotherapist, educator and AIDS activist. She is the co-founder of the AIDS activism group The AIDS Support Organization (TASO).

Why does Noerine Kaleeba matter?

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