Staff Profile: Meet Bridget Nanyonjo

Bridget Nanyonjo joined HAC in 2017 as a Monitoring & Evaluation Officer. Currently, she is part of the technical advising team under the Africa Resource Centre project.

In your time working with HAC, what are some of the things you have come to know about the communities where HAC is established?
If it wasn’t for HAC, I would not have known that some community members skip drug appointments due to lack of transportation means to the health centers. I also got to know that HIV/Aids stigma in these communities is still at its peak which makes HIV/Aids patients skip antiretroviral drug appointments.

What is your daily motivation as you work with HAC?
My motivation towards seeing that the marginalized people in the community are able to access health services regularly and at a subsided costs. 

How was working during the COVID-19 lockdown like for you?
As someone who works with data, it was a challenge. I had fewer data to fill out and this was because of the lockdown on transportation, the health workers could not go to the communities to serve the people. 

Talk to a Health Access Connect supporter;
Supporting HAC through funding is a necessary effort because we see the changes that HAC has done in the community with its few resources. Community members are now able to save money they could have spent on transport, and instead, get health services in the community. Health Access Connect has also reduced the workload health workers suffer at the health center. The HAC Medicycles program has improved the health of many clients in beneficiary communities since the health services are brought nearer.