AdvertisementA Sip Of Morphine: Uganda's Old-School Solution To A Shortage Of PainkillersNovember 25, 2019Nurith AizenmanfacebookEmailRonald Mutyaba, an auto mechanic, at his home in Kampala, Uganda. Mutyaba is HIV positive and has developed Karposi sarcoma, a type of cancer that often affects people with immune deficiencies. He is holding a bottle of the liquid morphine that nurses from the nonprofit group Hospice Africa have prescribed to help control the pain caused by his illlness. (NPR)