In Africa’s battle against AIDS, a key player hits a crossroads
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
In the center of Kayesa, a sun-drenched village in central Malawi, stands the empty shell of a public health clinic.
Its red brick walls are gap-toothed and end abruptly at window height, where construction stopped when the village chief ran out of money last year. Goats wander lazily through the half-completed structure, picking at fruit peels on the dirt floor.
But only about 100 yards away, villagers wait patiently in a long line to visit with a doctor at Kayesa’s Catholic church, St. Mary’s. Inside the squat one-room brick building, a team of Slovenian doctors and medical students who visit the village twice a month briskly dole out antibiotics, wound dressings, and advice on HIV treatment. Boxes of their supplies lie sprawled across the altar.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor (link opens in a new window)
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