November 26, 2004, 4.13 am
Random Journal Entry :: 8 Sept 2004 :: Wed 10.29 :: Dominican Friars, Swahili Villiage
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After mass and briefly greeting the sisters, we went to St. Monica's Hospital and visited the sick. Father Lewis prayed with people of every denomination - protestans, muslims, Assembly of God - and gave Communion to the Catholics. In one of the sick wards, I caught and crushed a lingering mosquito with a swift one-hand grab. When I opened my hand, it was covered in blood that the mosquito had apparently just drank.
If you are in a matatu and it wrecks, and you are covered in other peoples' blood, you stand a 50% chance of contracting HIV. In a hospital ward where the people are dying of AIDS, the risk is probably 90-100% if you are exposed to their blood. Chances are that the blood smeared on my hand was HIV-infected.
After mass and briefly greeting the sisters, we went to St. Monica's Hospital and visited the sick. Father Lewis prayed with people of every denomination - protestans, muslims, Assembly of God - and gave Communion to the Catholics. In one of the sick wards, I caught and crushed a lingering mosquito with a swift one-hand grab. When I opened my hand, it was covered in blood that the mosquito had apparently just drank.
If you are in a matatu and it wrecks, and you are covered in other peoples' blood, you stand a 50% chance of contracting HIV. In a hospital ward where the people are dying of AIDS, the risk is probably 90-100% if you are exposed to their blood. Chances are that the blood smeared on my hand was HIV-infected.
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