Thomas Taschbach is a friend and a German nurse who works for CARITAS in Aachen. I met him when he was a nursing student volunteering at St. Albert’s in 2006. He sent an email yesterday with these two YouTube stories featuring Elizabeth, who is speaking Italian. The interviews were recorded at the hospital. The first looks to be from an Italian TV news program about the work of CESVI, an Italian NGO. CESVI supports the hospital’s HIV prevention and education programs in a big way. In 2001, St. Albert’s became the first rural hospital in Zimbabwe to offer a Mother-to-Child Transmission Prevention (MTCTP) program. This was a demonstration project that provided nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women and their infants and was funded by CESVI. It showed that rural hospitals in Zimbabwe could offer MTCTP programs as successfully as urban hospitals. In the first story, Elizabeth is wearing her glasses and looks her usual self. In the second, titled “Thank you Doctor Elisabeth Tarira,” shows her in her office. I’ll add more about these stories after passing them by some Italian friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bgm9Alb9CI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPLf0wDZQ4
Posted by Darrell Ward
Tags: elizabeth tarira