So, Amit and I worked at the hospital today.  Baylor’s institute is truly amazing.  I was given the opportunity to shadow Dr. Chikate all day.  We saw patients from 8am-530pm.  Many of them had diseases such as tuberculosis in combination with HIV.  It was really amazing to me that so many of the patients are being successfully treated by antiviral drugs.  Dr. Chikate told me that if the children begin the treatment early enough, they are expected to live just as long as a healthy person would.   The majority of the patients seemed really healthy.  I was shocked to learn that most of the HIV positive mothers were breast-feeding their children. Why?  Well, they have to feed their child!  This angers me, but Baylor can’t feed every child until the child turns six months old.   I wish there was an easy answer…  Another horrible decision the doctor was faced with was whether or not to send a little baby back to the government hospital here.  The baby had just been discharged, but looked really sick.  He most likely has TB and is definitely HIV positive.  The doctor felt that if he sent the baby to the hospital, that is disgustingly dirty and rundown, he would likely die.  The baby’s health needed to be monitored closely, but currently, the proper facilities to do so do not exist here. Hopefully, the new hospital that is being built will alleviate this problem.  I learned so much today.