Friday November 5th
Today has been very quiet. The wards seem to have settled down after so much frenetic activity earlier in the week. I did spend a short time with Edward one of the medical officers in the HIV clinic. There are about 600 HIV patients being followed up in out patients every 1-2 months to supervise their medication. This is by Ugandan standards low and it seems that the area around Kagando has been relatively lightly affected by AIDS compared to the rest of Uganda. Apparently in Kampala it is not uncommon for every patient on a medical ward to be HIV positive. I certainly have a great deal to learn about HIV management as we have so little exposure to this in the UK. One of the things I haven’t managed to do in the short time I’ve been here is to go out on a community visit to one of the village HIV clinics to see how these function. There are 8 of these in all which the hospital supervise. Hopefully I can do this on a future visit.
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