Here's a link to the blog of an American expat friend in Zambia. I commiserate with her experiences of medical care and trying to apply for a temporary permit.
http://yourmominzambia.blogspot.com/
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
male circumcision and HIV
The NYT published an article today about how male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission by 40-60%.
This is pretty interesting. What's even more interesting is that I discovered a couple months ago that the social marketing NGO I'm partnering with (Society for Family Health, part of Population Services International) had been piloting male circumcision in Lusaka for several months already.
This is pretty interesting. What's even more interesting is that I discovered a couple months ago that the social marketing NGO I'm partnering with (Society for Family Health, part of Population Services International) had been piloting male circumcision in Lusaka for several months already.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
zambia in the NYT
so there's a multimedia feature in the NYT about "Africa's children."
couple reactions--
-- the hospital they show in Lesotho is much more well-equipped than the health clinic I'm working at. At least that place has ARV drugs and a full-time doctor. My health clinic is always out of drugs and doctors visit 2 times a week or so while people die from HIV/AIDS, cholera, etc. in the wards.
-- that child, Alone, from Lusaka, Zambia is relatively lucky in that he at least has a job. Many children don't and they starve. And at least he goes to school. And at least Alone isn't a street child. Street children make money by having sex with older men and begging. They have no schooling.
Well, I don't mean to be a downer or anything.
I just don't like the way the NYT and other Western media only portray specific poverty in Africa while not making as much of an effort to explain context, history, and possible causes of poverty.
couple reactions--
-- the hospital they show in Lesotho is much more well-equipped than the health clinic I'm working at. At least that place has ARV drugs and a full-time doctor. My health clinic is always out of drugs and doctors visit 2 times a week or so while people die from HIV/AIDS, cholera, etc. in the wards.
-- that child, Alone, from Lusaka, Zambia is relatively lucky in that he at least has a job. Many children don't and they starve. And at least he goes to school. And at least Alone isn't a street child. Street children make money by having sex with older men and begging. They have no schooling.
Well, I don't mean to be a downer or anything.
I just don't like the way the NYT and other Western media only portray specific poverty in Africa while not making as much of an effort to explain context, history, and possible causes of poverty.
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