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Accompanied Health Initiative (ACHI) Advancing access to quality and affordable healthcare in rural Uganda

Team

Daphine Namara, Co-founder and CEO. Daphine is a phyisician & a public health specialist with over 5 years of clinical and research experience in HIV/TB and corelated diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Her current research project is funded by NIH Fogarty International Center in collaboration with Yale University. Dr. Namara’s passion for founding ACHI stems from her own life story. As a 3rd year medical student at Makerere University School of Medicine, her 56-year-old Father succumbed to kidney failure following a late diagnosis of hypertension in rural southwestern Uganda. James Kassaga Arinaitwe, Chief of Strategy and Partnerships Advisor has over 10yrs of combined experience in fundraising, partnerships having raised over $5Million as the CEO at Teach for Uganda. He shares his passion for quality and affordable healthcare for the elderly in Uganda with Dr. Namara, having lost his entire family of seven to AIDs and other non-communicab