Thanks for covering Uganda

Editor - As a volunteer who is planning to go to Uganda this summer under the auspices of the Uganda Village Project for the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA-USA), I found last month's article really informative, although the district that I'm going to be working is in southern Uganda.¹ It is so important for magazines such as the studentBMJ to include such topics. Unfortunately, people tend to get used to events, however horrid, that are taking place over a longer period of time, like the war in Sudan in northern Uganda. For those who would like to read more on the subject, I'd recommend the article by Accorsi et al.² I have no one ideal solution to offer. But I hope that the war in Uganda will not be a moving Hollywood film 10 years from now, like Hotel Rwanda.

1. Westerhaus MJ. Uganda: an uncivil war. studentBMJ 2005;13:166-7. (April.)
2. Accorsi S, Fabiani M, Nattabi B, Corrado B, Iriso R, Ayella EO, et al. The disease profile of poverty: morbidity and mortality in northern Uganda in the context of war, population displacement and HIV/AIDS. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2005;99:226-33.