Derrick Z. Jackson

Derrick Z. Jackson

Tuesdays & Saturdays in the Globe.

The cheap collateral damage of sex scandals

Endless studies show that children are disrupted by changes in family structure, and boy, does infidelity often change family structure. (Globe Columnist, 7/10/09)

A quagmire for Obama

Questions are emerging as to whether Obama is slipping slowly but surely into his own quagmire, in another guerrilla war. (Globe Columnist, 7/6/09)

Uganda's dilemma of competing goals

Uganda has become a laboratory for how developing countries deal with old scourges while anticipating new environmental challenges. (Boston Globe, 6/29/09)

Malaria, DDT, and desperation in Uganda

The use of DDT arouses great passion in sub-Saharan Africa, where access to the best drugs is woeful, and where simple home protections are lacking. (Globe Columnist, 6/26/09)

The silent killer in Uganda

A third of women in urban Kampala, Uganda, and a quarter of the women in more rural central and southwestern Uganda are overweight or obese, according to 2007 government statistics. It is a major paradox since 50 percent of children in southwestern Uganda are malnourished. (Boston Globe, 6/22/09)

New diet, new threat in Uganda

While old-fashioned malnutrition persists in Ugandan villages, area doctors are seeing the creeping advance of mis-nourishment, with thin villagers showing up in clinics with hypertension and diabetes. (Globe Columnist, 6/19/09)

When diabetics would prefer AIDS

The resources for diabetes are so little in Mbarara, Uganda, a rapidly growing city of 100,000, that the head of the diabetes clinic at Mbarara University Hospital said some patients think the unthinkable: "One diabetic patient told me she wished she had HIV because HIV treatment is free and she has to pay for insulin," he said. (Boston Globe, 6/15/09)
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Obama and the Stars and Stripes

Obama and the Stars and Stripes

See Derrick's photos of the American flag at Obama events.
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