Beating beetroot: S.African AIDS plan boosts treatment
AFP, May, 2008
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WINTERTON, South Africa (AFP) — The waiting room at the anti-retroviral clinic in rural Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, is bustling, as patients clutch their files patiently awaiting their life-saving medication.
Smiling shyly, a 51-year old woman clasping a brown paper bag upends her medicines in front of Nokubonga Potelwa, who explains how to take the drugs that were long snubbed as toxic by the South African government.
Potelwa hands the woman a photocopied calendar, with a picture of a sun and a moon drawn in each day where she has to mark off that her medicines were taken, and uses a red crayon to indicate with an X, the day she should return.
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Emmaus hospital, nestled among the majestic Drakensberg mountains in the AIDS-stricken province is one of several rural hospitals recording astonishing successes in ARV-treatment, having already hit ambitious targets set for 2011.
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