The Clinic

Here is the story on the place where I am working. You can see the official title here on the welcome sign next to the front gate right off of Somholo Road. It is about a 20 minute walk up hill from the town center. The box on the top left of the sign is the Swazi flag indicating that this initiative is in partnership with the Swazi government. BIPAI on the bottom left is the organization that staffs this clinic along with 4 others in Africa and one each in Romania and Mexcio. Bristol-Meyers is the corporation that funds and makes this all possible, and hence you see this pristine looking building set in the middle of some random street oustide a little town in Swaziland (even if it is the capital). Most of the doctors on staff here are ex-patriots from the U.S. They actually get paid by a program called the Pediatric AIDS Core (PAC) which also pays off their education related loan debts in exchange for time spent both practicing and training health care providers in a foreign country. The PAC doctors are the ones with whom I see patients, and I typically rotate with a different one each day from about 7:30-4 Monday-Thursday and only until noon on Friday. I will give more updates on my specific projects soon.