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• Title: Providing Antiretroviral Therapy in Rural Areas: Acute Or Chronic Care? is HIV an Acute Or a Chronic Disease? (Disease/Disorder Overview)
• Author : CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 72 KB

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I was working at a busy rural clinic in the Eastern Cape. My next patient entered the consulting room. She walked slowly, although she was only in her early 30s. I could see her chest heaving from the exertion of entering the room. She sank down into the chair and turned her large eyes towards me, eyes filled with tiredness, desperation and, perhaps, fear? Slowly her story emerged. She had been living in Johannesburg for the last few years, doing temporary work. During this time she was tested for HIV and found to be HIV positive. She was started on antiretroviral therapy, apparently doing well on treatment. It is unclear why she left Johannesburg to return to the rural Eastern Cape. She came back to her mom and sister--now over a year ago. Slowly her health began to deteriorate. She had not told her family her diagnosis, or continued with any of her treatment. As her health worsened, her family became more concerned, and consulted a number of traditional healers and special doctors. Now she arrived here.

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