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    Aiducation 20-10 Taking Control of Tb & Aids
    Aiducation 20-10 Taking Control of Tb & Aids
    Aiducation 20-10 Taking Control of Tb & Aids
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    Aiducation 20-10 Taking Control of Tb & Aids

    By Dr. Edwin Mavunika Mapara

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    TB and AIDS are visiting and touching many homes in both the developed and developing countries leaving misery, suffering, orphans and in many cases death, that could have been prevented and avoided. This book is for the AIDucators that have participated in driving AIDucation 20-10 in the communities of London. It is for those friends that I had social intercourses with on those Friday and Saturday evenings. It is for the health promoters, the politicians, the pastors, the ministers, the imams, the teachers, the students, the youth, the volunteers, the carers and all those who want to make a difference and bring TB and AIDS under control. The book addresses basic issues that we need to know: Facts on HIV infections, AIDS and TB; the HIV test, voluntary counselling and testing (VCT); common sexually transmitted infections; common HIV associated conditions and the popular Isle of Wight powerpoint presentation that was given to the Christian youths at their summer camp in August 2009. This book might be useful to medical students and nursing students.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateOct 4, 2010
    ISBN9781453577806
    Aiducation 20-10 Taking Control of Tb & Aids
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    Dr. Edwin Mavunika Mapara

    Dr Edwin Mavunika Mapara is an AIDucator who has been in the field of HIV infections, AIDS and TB since 1983 in Zambia. He was one of the medical students that saw the “first” officially declared person living with AIDS in Zambia, under The Yellow Firm Unit, University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Lusaka. It has been over two decades of Pictures in AIDucation; Setting up voluntary counselling and testing centres; Teaching on TB and AIDS; Advising on several local, national and international organisations. Some of his documented “best practices” include programmes at Livingstone General Hospital (Zambia); Athlone Hospital, Lobatse, (Botswana), Botswana Antiretroviral (ARV) Therapy Programme and Community Health Action Trust (CHAT), London, England. AIDucation is part of university modules on HIV/AIDS for medical doctors and nurses studying Tropical Medicine in London. Dr Mapara has released four books on his experiences that he calls simply “Sex - AIDucation related” in the AIDUCATION 20-10 Project.

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      Aiducation 20-10 Taking Control of Tb & Aids - Dr. Edwin Mavunika Mapara

      Copyright © 2010 by Dr. Edwin Mavunika Mapara.

      Cover Photography: Agatha M. Mapara

      ISBN: Softcover  978-1-4535-7779-0

      ISBN: Ebook      978-1-4535-7780-6

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

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      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

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      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Acknowledgements

      Part 1: Introduction

      Part 2: HIV Infection ~ Virology and Transmission (Africa)

      Part 3: HIV Infection ~ Parent to Child Transmission of HIV

      Part 4: London A-Z Of Tuberculosis (Tb)

      Part 5: Isle of Wight (IOW) Social Intercourse

      Conclusion

      References

      Dedicated to the AIDucators that I have mingled with during

      our social intercourses in AIDucation while in Zambia, Botswana,

      South Africa and the United Kingdom who whole-heartedly

      believe in AIDUCATION 20-10

      Seeing is very different from being told.

      Preface

      This book is not a scientific or medical textbook meant for medical students or nurses. It is a book meant for everybody. It is a book meant for everyone who is sexually active and also for those who are not sexually active and are contemplating in engaging in sexual intercourse.

      It is simply a true African experience or story on the use of pictures or images in HIV infection, AIDS education (AIDucation) and awareness raising in the communities of London, in Britain. Seeing is very different from being told, is an African saying that drives AIDucation 20-10. The English say, in almost the same light that, Seeing is believing! The meaning is literally the same. We are talking visuals, pictures or colour images. A picture is worth a thousand words and we remember more of what we see than what we hear.

      The idea of the books came about as the result of Professor David Morley’s encouragement and a few others that I shared my experiences with. Prof Morley said, "write it down" after sharing with him and the Teaching aids At Low Cost (TALC) staff at St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom on how I abused the TALC resources while in Africa. May his soul rest in peace.

      This book is a smaller version of AIDUCATION 20-10 Taking Control of AIDS and AIDUCATION 20-10 Taking Control of TB that summarises AIDucation 20-10’s cutting edge in picturing sexually transmitted infections, including HIV infections and AIDS. I am very grateful to have been given permission to use the pictures that were put together by two great doctors, Dr Cathy Vaughan and Wendy Holmes, Centre for International Health, Macfarlane Burnet, Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. I was introduced to the two great doctors by the late Professor David Morley. The resources are distributed by Teaching aids At Low Cost (TALC), St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

      AIDucation 20-10 would not have been alive if it was not for these pictures that address the many picturate communities in our global village where, Seeing is very different from being told. As usual there are more pictures and fewer words in this book than its predecessors.

      I hope that this small book will urge you to own the other two books so that you can get more involved in driving and supporting AIDucation 20-10 that aims to Taking Control of AIDS and Taking Control of TB, before AIDS and TB Take Control of your local communities.

      Dr Edwin Mavunika Mapara

      Acknowledgements

      One should not forget those people that one meets on working on this project that started almost twenty three years ago in Africa. The project is now in Europe and is called ‘AIDucation 20-10’ in the year conveniently of 2010 that has been dedicated to Taking Control of AIDS and Taking Control of TB.

      I will forever be grateful to Dr Cathy Vaughan and Dr Wendy Holmes of The Centre for International Health, Macfarlane Burnet, Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia for these fantastic pictures and for the permission to use them to picture a point to the ‘picturate’ communities in Britain, where the local black and minority ethnic groups are not taught through colour pictures. Seven years in London (Britain) has shown me that London, like its predecessors Livingstone (Zambia) and Lobatse (Botswana), has an urgent need for AIDucation 20-10 resources.

      Thank you to TALC for being TALC. The birth of TALC and the life of TALC have been a blessing to the many developing countries, especially those on the African continent. If it was not for TALC, I would not have touched the thousands of lives that I have touched in preventing AIDS and TB and in caring for those living with AIDS and TB. The resources are distributed by Teaching aids At Low Cost (TALC), St Albans, United Kingdom.

      Posthumously, I thank Professor David Morley, the President and Founder of TALC, for the vision that became reality, for the reality that became Public Health, for the Public Health that gave birth to AIDucation 20-10. Many people from the developing world will never forget the great man. May his soul rest in eternal peace as we continue in our own small ways what he initiated in 1965, to provide health resources to the disadvantaged and the under resourced in the developing countries.

      In London I cannot forget the many community AIDucators that I met on my AIDucation adventures during the weekend AIDucation 20-10 sessions across London or in some cases during the evening week day AIDucation 20-10 sessions.

      These include AIDucators from various organisations representing people from Angola, Botswana, the Caribbean Islands, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

      Some of the many AIDucators were Christian ministers and Imams from the Moslem Community that took AIDucation 20-10 to their Churches or Mosques.

      To all those who have helped to take AIDucation 20-10 to their local communities to address TB,AIDS and TB & HIV co-infection I say, Yebo! Thank you!

      Dr Edwin Mavunika Mapara

      Part 1

      INTRODUCTION

      Livingstone AIDS Awareness Programme, Zambia

      Athlone Hospital AIDS Awareness Project, Botswana

      Map of Botswana-Athlone National Tour of Hope

      Athlone Hospital Health Resource Centre

      Community Health Action Trust (CHAT), Britain

      London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

      Pictures in Sex AIDucation

      Picturing AIDS and TB

      1

      Introduction

      The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

      African Proverb

      Livingstone AIDS Awareness Project, Zambia

      AIDucation started in July 1989, the year I was transferred from the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka to Livingstone General Hospital in the southern part of Zambia to go and serve my one year district posting. After the one year district posting in Livingstone, I would be living for the United Kingdom in 1990 for my postgraduate studies in Public Health.

      I began work in the hospital and soon realised the amount of problems that we had in patients living with HIV infections and

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