Most of the past few days was spent shaping up the TB curriculum and with a lot of sophies help we translated it into French. We decided to lessen the emphasis on co-infection in light of stigmatizing hiv and/or tb patients.
Sophie did a great job of presenting the curriculum to the Peer Educators yesterday. We met with them for approximately an hour (they gather the last friday of every month at the gaia house to get their pay etc.) We had printed out copies for them to share. Sophie engaged one of the peer educators to read the curriculum aloud (& translate into bambara) which was very helpful. Some were more receptive than others, asking questions etc, but everybody seems to have an interest. Karamoko chimed in often to clarify some medical terms (such as resistance, bacteria, etc.) A major question that came up was how kissing individuals with Tb can be allowed. I’m going to do some more research so that we can present this information more clearly. Most took a copy home with them and are going to read it over and prepare any questions that they have, which we will discuss when we meet with them next Friday.
On the radar: Finish up the TB Pilot budget (how much will the asacomsi cover, show it to karamoko), meet with Flabeau, show the curriculum to Salle, decide which peer educators (& how many) will be doing Tb Bolo, figure out how the card system subsidizing the cost of consultation at the asascomsi will work…
Its always interesting to be at the clinic, but with my lack of french/bambara skills, its hard to pick up a lot of whats going on. So I’ve been trying hard to learn some french & Karamoko has been trying to get in touch with Dr. Diallo (who speaks some english) so that I can go to Point G and “shadow” him while he sees patients.
Binny