Salama SHIELD Foundation (SSF) is a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that has been present in the Lyantonde District of Uganda for over 27 years. By virtue of its participatory-action research approach to development,1 SSF has secured and sustained the trust of community members. Many of the persons and families engaged in SSF’s educational and HIV prevention […]
Author Archives: Dennis Willms
Dennis is a retired Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. Prior to this, he was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, where he was first introduced to the clinical and medical urgencies associated with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. He founded the Salama SHIELD Foundation in 1992 and has been engaged in the design of health and development programs in Sub-Saharan Africa for over 40 years, conducting HIV/AIDS ethnographic research in Canada, Malawi, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Currently residing in Ontario, he is blessed with Rita, his wife of 36 years, and two sons.
