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joya banerjee [ profile ] |
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NYTimes: Doctors Go Far Afield to Battle Epidemics
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Apr 4th, 2011 - 09:54:21 |
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This is an excellent, uplifting article:
NYTimes: Doctors Go Far Afield to Battle Epidemics
Excerpt:
MASHAI, Lesotho At a clinic in the mountains, reached only by
crossing a churning river in a rowboat, Dr. Paul Young, a pediatrician
raised in the housing projects of Savannah, Ga., soothed a fussy baby.
She stared at him, fascinated, as he made soft popping sounds with his
lips and listened to her heart through a stethoscope.
Dr. Phiri said the arrival of doctors from the Pediatric AIDS Corps,
like Dr. Paul Young, had lightened her load and improved care.
I used to be afraid to look at the babies test results, he said
after examining a bunch of children, who were born healthy despite
having H.I.V.-positive mothers. But now, most of them are negative.
Dr. Young, 33, and the nurses he trained here have persuaded many
pregnant women to get tested and take the drugs that prevent them from
passing the disease to their newborns. It is all part of a charitable
effort he joined in 2008 for $40,000 a year and the chance to work in
this AIDS-afflicted country, which has just one pediatrician in its
entire government health system.
If this was the last thing I did, if this was the only job I ever had
in life, I would have served my purpose, he said.
Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/world/africa/03aids.html?_r=1&ref=aids
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