Fighting Malaria from Gene to Reality
By Roperfree Roperfree started with an idea of fighting malaria in the Sub-Saharan Africa focusing on Uganda, my family thought that it was a crazy idea! And they could not understand why I should be wasting time and money in venturing into solving problem of malaria when the disease has always been there for ages even before Uganda got independence, it was very serious debate filled with brainstorming and no one in the family could understand why should I waste time and money to fight malaria as its government responsibility to come up with such a solution and implement it. I kept thinking about it and how I could go around, despite the government bureaucracy but I was determined to follow my dreams and after all it was my money and time to invest and above all what I wanted is to save people’s lives from dying or getting malaria whereas I never thought about making money but to focus on saving people’s lives, creating a good legacy and to give back to the most vulnerable people in