Sunday, February 01, 2009

Raising the bar - A numerical snapshot of Swaziland's HIV epidemic

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www.empoweranother.org I recently rediscovered a pdf document with an excellent statistical overview of Swaziland's HIV epidemic, compil...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Welcome!

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If you are a first-time visitor to this site, please note that there are several labels that help categorize my entries over the past year s...
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Sunday, December 07, 2008

One hundred and one Swaziland destinations - #26: "Swazi Candles"

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A Swazi candle-maker ( www.mccullagh.org ) Swaziland is historically a cattle-based society, and fresh bread is considered a delicacy. Butch...

The king, the pawns, the same unfortunate box - Recent media

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In a recent article in The Economist magazine titled, It’s Good to be King , the author asks why Zimbabwean leadership is being condemned w...
Thursday, November 06, 2008

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Yesterday, I found myself staring blankly at the above color-coded map of global HIV prevalences. Below the map there was a list several num...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

One hundred and one Swaziland destinations - #25 Nhlangano

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www.upload.wikimedia.org There are the well-served, the underserved and there are the unserved (the good, bad, and ugly, if you will). Two ...
Sunday, April 27, 2008

One hundred and one Swaziland destinations - #24: "Gone Rural"

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http://www.goneruralswazi.com/ Based on a microenterprise empowerment model, this non-profit, shop-based collection of Swazi handicrafts is ...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

One hundred and one Swaziland destinations - #23: "House on Fire"

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The back door to HoF...as seen from Melandelas Restaurant when the sun is up. Think eclectic soapstone architecture and good music sur...
Friday, April 04, 2008

One hundred and one Swaziland destinations...revisited

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A friend of mine from pediatrics residency, Dr. Dan Vostrejs, is hoping to move to Swaziland soon. He recently told me that my blog was a ha...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Ryan's list of useful HIV websites

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It just occurred to me that it might be a good idea to put together a list of HIV websites that I have found useful while working in Africa....
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Friday, March 21, 2008

What am I up to? (January-March, 2008)

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Yours most truly, in my BIPAI office in Houston, Texas. For the past two and a half months, I have been living and working in Houston at BIP...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

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Scabies in an immunocompromised baby. There is an interesting article in this week’s New York Times, titled “ The Price of Beauty: For Top M...

Swaziland in pictures

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I really enjoyed this short photo collection posted by a previous Peace Corps volunteer in Swaziland. See link below. Kingdom of Swaziland, ...
Monday, January 07, 2008

If you are planning a visit to Swaziland, read this

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One of Swaziland's tens of thousands of orphans. ( www.anamericaninpretoria.blogspot.com ) I reread the Swaziland National Vulnerabilit...
Friday, January 04, 2008

Stories about Sipho - A guest-blog patient encounter, continued

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I just noticed that the (BLOG) RED posted parts 3 and 4 of a patient narrative that I wrote a few weeks back. Have a look: (BLOG) RED: Stori...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Happy 2008.

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Swazi children. May we make the most of it.
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Where have all the Swazi's gone? - Recent media

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"Where have all the Swazi's gone?" is the title of a recent article from Toronto's Globe and Mail , which discusses Swazil...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Season's Greetings

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There are many 'things' to be mindful of this season as we give our gifts and make our resolutions. Click here for some examples. S...
Friday, December 21, 2007

For those children not nestled all snug in their beds

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Siphelele, on Young Heroes waiting list I rarely solicit on this website. When I do, it is for Young Heroes , an organization that provides ...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Drawn - A anonymous Swazi child

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Sipho (pictured standing below) walked into the clinic office where I was working a few weeks back and told me he had something to show me. ...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Have difficult-to-shop-for-relatives? Here is a humane gift idea: support a Swazi orphan

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This misspelled poster, created by rural community health workers at a recent Baylor-sponsored pediatric HIV training, made an impact on me....
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Tacos in Swaziland - Cultural encounter series (4 of 10)

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Treasure, Anne, an Mlingisi eating their first taco. There are no tacos in Swaziland. There are no Taco Bells, Taco Buenos, Taco Cabanas, or...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Senzo and the doll - A patient encounter

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Dolls in Exam Room 8 Senzo was pretending to breastfeed a doll when I walked in the exam room. He sat beside his mother and infant sister, h...
Thursday, December 06, 2007

One hundred and one Swaziland destinations - #22: "The Swazi cultural village"

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I recently took a trip to the Swazi Cultural Village about twenty minutes east of Mbabane, where one can tour a traditional Swazi village an...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

One hundred and one Swaziland destinations - #21 The weaver birds

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chandra.as.utexas.edu The weaver birds are back in Swaziland after a wintertime hiatus. So are their pendulous, seemlingly precarious abodes...