Category: International
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Our Medical Director, Dr Steve Taylor, and China Saving Lives advocate, Dr Qingxia Zhao, appeared on BBC television yesterday to talk about the exciting collaboration between the Sixth People’s Hospital in Zhengzhou City and Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham. Our own activities in China dovetail very well with the Heartlands project, and we’ve contributed logistical and media support…
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Clinicians from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital’s HIV Service and their counterparts from the Sixth Hospital in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province China, are to take part in the first video conference of its kind on Monday, 28 May. It is the first time doctors from the UK will consult in this way with clinicians in the region…
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You may remember the stories of Máke and Sibusiso, who met our roving advocates and bloggers, Emma and Charlie, in Swaziland last year. Emma has since established a new fundraising arm of Saving Lives, Food4ARVs, which aims to support the home-based care teams with whom she worked in Swaziland. ARVs, the medicines prescribed to those…
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Emma Wallis, the International Saving Lives volunteer who visited Swaziland earlier this year and blogged about her experiences for us. She is now raising money for Saving Lives, which we’ll be using to help fund her Food For ARVs programme back in Africa. More of this soon, no doubt, but in the meantime here are…
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It had been 11 days since I first met Sibelo and I had been busy doing various things around the hospital, as well as visiting another completely different private hospital in a sugar plantation. In the meantime this gentleman had been to see the HIV specialist who had done a brief medical assessment of him…
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Another of our correspondents in Swaziland, Charlie, writes about an unusual case he recently encountered on the same day Emma was delivering her condom promotion classes … During a day spent in the rural community, during a teaching session on condom promotion. I was approached by an elderly lady and asked if she could speak…
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Following on from our previous teaching day in the village, we decided to teach whomever wanted to come along about the importance of condoms and how to use them. We set off at the break of dawn and made the long journey back to the rural village armed with 60 bananas and 100 condoms.…
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No food: During our teaching at the school, we made sure that questions were invited and that everyone should be free to ask anything. Problems that were commonly addressed included, “What should I do if I don’t have any food to take my ARVs with? How should I get food?” If you take the ARVs…
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The long walk to the village with Maké Today I organised along with Make and a primary school teacher to teach 30-40 people who live in a village about HIV. I really had no idea what to expect about the lesson, however I prepared an introduction and 2 stories in order to get across our…
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Delay to testing and treatment; stigma, beliefs and fears Today I was speaking to a man who had been diagnosed with HIV for 9 years. Unfortunately he has suspected Tuberculosis, an extremely common infection in Swaziland, particularly amongst the HIV population. We got to talking about how he became infected with HIV; he told me…