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Sunday Drive
DJ Windows 98
There are bugs in South Africa that even the Dali Lama is going: ‘Kill that.’
New Fashion City’s Finest
If you need me, I’ll be here: at New Fashion City.
South African wildlife: White Guy
South African wildlife: Woodland Kingfisher
My favorite South African wildlife might just be the dung beetle. It just looks so dumb and cute pushing around its ball of shit! The dung beetle uses its rolled ball of cow dung to lay its eggs in. It then buries it in the dirt where the eggs hatch.
ARVs
The main defense/medical care against HIV are ARVs, which is an abbreviation for Anti-retrovirals. ARVS, which are mostly pills, block the HIV cells from replicating. It is crucial that ARVs are taken continuously. If a patient stops taking ARVs then they default and the HIV strain actually becomes stronger and those previous ARVs will no longer work. If a patient defaults three times, the HIV will most likely progress to AIDS. But if a patient consistently takes ARVs, the HIV can actually be reversed.
Safari Dog
I’ve had three extreme cases of Deja Vu since I’ve been here. This was one of them.
Mobile Medical Clinics
Ryder and I spent the last two days with Santi and Sarah at the medical clinics. Every Monday is a general clinic for basic colds, and every Tuesday is the HIV clinic. One of the many challenges SAME faces with medical clinics is treating patients from four different villages. This means the clinics have to be mobile, sometimes moving two or three times in day. I have so much respect for the work these women are doing on a daily basis.
What is HIV?
It sounds dumb, but I didn’t really know anything about HIV before I arrived in South Africa.
HIV is the abbreviation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, which is a slowly-replicating retrovirus that kills the human immune system/CD4 white-blood cells.
Shangan superstition
The local villagers fear the chameleon because they believe its eyes can see into both the past and the future at the same time.
