to visit an AIDS and tuberculosis patient in Swaziland
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Metisa, a nurse of the Swaziland Red Cross makes a home visit in a patient. Fortunately, it has previously stopped raining, otherwise it would not have been possible, the gravel road that leads to the vicinity of Sibongile Gininzdas ordinary family, to cope with the car. A slippery steep trail leads finally to the "Homestead" - a simple dwelling - down where the 48-year-old widow with two children, a granddaughter and her handicapped sister lives. Gininzda receives the nurse in a shelter, which serves as their kitchen.
since a year and the dainty white, serious woman that she has AIDS. Last fall came even to tuberculosis, "Without treatment, the Red Cross would I have been long dead," she says. She finds it difficult to talk about the worst time when she was so weak that she could not leave the bed. Neighbors they wore finally up the hill to the street and organized transport to the Red Cross hospital. "I was desperate. What would become of my children, my sick sister, my little granddaughter? Without me she would be lost. "
goes Fortunately Gininzda Meanwhile, much better. "On the drugs she has responded very well and even a bit put on weight" Metisa says, the nurse who cared for them since the start of treatment. Twice a week he visits them (and many other patients) at home to ensure that there are no problems in the treatment.
Since 2004, the SRC offers in Swaziland AIDS therapies. Previously there were no treatment options in rural areas. Three clinics have since been rebuilt by the SRC, to live in their catchment area 30,000 people. Through the therapy, the patient's life changed dramatically. Without AIDS treatment option was a death sentence. Through the therapy she received another perspective. For two years, tuberculosis is systematically tested and treated. For weak people whose immune system by HIV is ill very often at the high-risk tuberculosis.
pictures of the work of the Red Cross in Swaziland:
comes to the health problems often poverty, carried the disease worse. For if, as in the case of Gininzda, the patient, the locomotive of the family is a whole system collapses. Even the death of the man who contributed to impoverishment. On AIDS and TB treatment of the SRC therefore also includes a comprehensive social program that helps people in their difficult life.
Wherever possible Gininzda trying to help themselves. Much of the day - well today - she spends with crochet: colorful skirts for little girls, they tried to sell to the nearby thoroughfare. Also they bake bread at times to earn a little money. In the garden beside the house, she planted vegetables. The seedlings they received from the Red Cross.
"It is important that patients eat enough and healthy. Otherwise they stand the strong medicines ", says Metisa. Today he has the food package for a whole month here, with rice, oil and beans. Gininzda shines when it receives the packet. It's the first laugh, since we are there. I am glad that we did not come empty-handed.
>> The SRC in Swaziland
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Metisa, a nurse of the Swaziland Red Cross makes a home visit in a patient. Fortunately, it has previously stopped raining, otherwise it would not have been possible, the gravel road that leads to the vicinity of Sibongile Gininzdas ordinary family, to cope with the car. A slippery steep trail leads finally to the "Homestead" - a simple dwelling - down where the 48-year-old widow with two children, a granddaughter and her handicapped sister lives. Gininzda receives the nurse in a shelter, which serves as their kitchen.
since a year and the dainty white, serious woman that she has AIDS. Last fall came even to tuberculosis, "Without treatment, the Red Cross would I have been long dead," she says. She finds it difficult to talk about the worst time when she was so weak that she could not leave the bed. Neighbors they wore finally up the hill to the street and organized transport to the Red Cross hospital. "I was desperate. What would become of my children, my sick sister, my little granddaughter? Without me she would be lost. "
goes Fortunately Gininzda Meanwhile, much better. "On the drugs she has responded very well and even a bit put on weight" Metisa says, the nurse who cared for them since the start of treatment. Twice a week he visits them (and many other patients) at home to ensure that there are no problems in the treatment.
Since 2004, the SRC offers in Swaziland AIDS therapies. Previously there were no treatment options in rural areas. Three clinics have since been rebuilt by the SRC, to live in their catchment area 30,000 people. Through the therapy, the patient's life changed dramatically. Without AIDS treatment option was a death sentence. Through the therapy she received another perspective. For two years, tuberculosis is systematically tested and treated. For weak people whose immune system by HIV is ill very often at the high-risk tuberculosis.
pictures of the work of the Red Cross in Swaziland:
comes to the health problems often poverty, carried the disease worse. For if, as in the case of Gininzda, the patient, the locomotive of the family is a whole system collapses. Even the death of the man who contributed to impoverishment. On AIDS and TB treatment of the SRC therefore also includes a comprehensive social program that helps people in their difficult life.
Wherever possible Gininzda trying to help themselves. Much of the day - well today - she spends with crochet: colorful skirts for little girls, they tried to sell to the nearby thoroughfare. Also they bake bread at times to earn a little money. In the garden beside the house, she planted vegetables. The seedlings they received from the Red Cross.
"It is important that patients eat enough and healthy. Otherwise they stand the strong medicines ", says Metisa. Today he has the food package for a whole month here, with rice, oil and beans. Gininzda shines when it receives the packet. It's the first laugh, since we are there. I am glad that we did not come empty-handed.
>> The SRC in Swaziland
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