I was back in Kampala all but a week when, at the last minute, I was sent to Nairobi for the International AIDS Women’s Leadership Summit (held in conjunction with the YWCA World Congress). I spent much of last year helping to put together an advocacy meeting on the new vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, and we launched the resulting Call to Action at the YWCA meeting.

The event well, I got to spend a little bit of time with Shannon (who was working 1000 times harder than me), and got to sit some of Nairobi for the first time. I hadn’t been to a conference organized by women, for women in a long time. Talking with people who aren’t deeply immersed in my tiny field for a change was fantastic. Once I get settled in a little bit more, I need to branch out!