27 November 2009

Ambassador Goosby Comments on Hope from PEPFAR’s Activities

Podcast with U.S. global AIDS coordinator for PEPFAR

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Ambassador Eric Goosby:

You know, I’ve been to these countries many times. I’ve done work in all these countries for many years. Now, to see the clinic up and running, the beds having nobody in them now, a non HIV-related admission was very gratifying to see, just in the Ethiopian trip. In the other countries, the same type of transformation has occurred. The sense of hope that’s in both the community — you can feel it in the health care worker community where providers are not burnt out, kind of post-traumatic stressed from having seen 100 percent of their patients die. And I think that it has created hope in them, it’s decreased stigmatization within the health care community, and it has created a drive to get tested, because now there’s a reason to know your HIV status.