“We had both become very interested in global health after spending six weeks in Thailand on an HIV project,” said Stringer, an associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine. “I remember the night we decided to move to Zambia. We were sitting outside at a Lebanese restaurant on a warm, beautiful night, and I just burst into tears.”
Stringer had been to Zambia once before, and admittedly had never considered moving there.
“It was just scary. I wasn’t connected to Zambia then, and I saw it very superficially. A rundown hotel, food I didn’t like, poverty. To uproot our family with young children and move to this place seemed crazy. But, I knew that I had to do it. It was the right thing to do, and I felt that calling to help people around the world.”
When Stringer stepped onto Zambian soil for the second time, it wasn’t long before everything changed. Keep reading.