The cold weather finally decided to go away :D wooooo!!
Have had a busy few days (: loving it out here though the country is just so different to anywhere I have been before, & its such an amazingly brilliant experience! So grateful for everyone who has made this possible!!
So what have I been upto?!
Well Wednesday I spent with a VERY busy senior nurse, who took me around the clinic & bits of the hospital. I learnt how the clinic is managed, & the ways in which things are run! Its all very hard work for such a small place, but its so busy all the time! I spent the afternoon sat in clinic again & saw some more interesting things like a pregnant lady, someone whos ARVs might not be working, and people with complications from the meds! Every patient you see, despite all having the same underlying problem, is just so different in their own way! Its really fascinating to see the diversity within one illness.
Today I went to the Childrens clinic up the road. It was amazing. They do research as well, & have a clinic the same as the adults. They see patients from birth upwards, & I was surprised by the wide range of ages they saw. They see a lot more children surviving into adolescence now, where before the treatment with ARV's a lot of the children died young. This alongside a very successful Preventing Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme, a lot less younger children are being diagnosed with HIV! It was wicked to get a chance to see the peads teams in action!
Tomorrow I'm spending the day with the researchers back at the Themba Lethu clinic (: this should hopefully be really interesting! & at the weekend hopefully going with them to a film :D woop!
Next week I'm going to the ACTs clinic in White River. Its gunna be sooo awesome I can't wait :D
So all in all very good few days = a very happy Amy! Loving South Africa, especially now its sunny! So excited for whats to come!
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