Augustine Fellowship, Connector Articles

Augustine Fellow Expands Skills and Experience


May 9, 2018

We checked in with Steven Mukawa to see how he is doing in his post at SIM’s ELWA Hospital in Paynesville, Liberia. Steven is an IT Officer at St. Luke’s College of Nursing in Zomba, Malawi and is the first recipient in the Augustine Fellowship program. He is serving at…

by Kathy Erb

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First Augustine Fellow Begins Post at ELWA Hospital


March 29, 2018

We are excited to announce that Steven Mukawa, Information Technology Officer at St. Luke’s College of Nursing in Zomba, Malawi has landed in Liberia to start his post at the ELWA Hospital in Paynesville, Liberia. Steven is the first recipient in the Augustine Fellowship program, a partnership of...

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The End of Epidemics by Jonathan Quick


February 13, 2018

The 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak was dramatically different from previous occurrences of the disease. Once a virus that burned out quickly in rural areas, Ebola spread in large cities for the first time, killing more than 11,000 people. Population movement and other factors such as modern farming...

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Empowering Faith Leaders to End AIDS Stigma


December 11, 2017

In the photo above, Reverend Pearson Banda of the Reformed Church in Zambia writes a message about HIV and the Church in the first workshop for religious leaders that David Barstow attended in Zambia in 2007.   While commitments from governments and large international organizations to fund AIDS research,...

by Kathy Erb

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