HIV-AIDS in Tanzania -- Realities on the Ground

doi:10.1056/NEJMp068243

Volume 355:2276-2277		November 30, 2006		Number 22

HIV–AIDS in Tanzania — Realities on the Ground

Beth Zeeman, M.D.

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Ligula Hospital, a regional hospital in Mtwara, Tanzania, has enrolled more than 700 patients as part of a national rollout of antiretroviral treatment and AIDS care sponsored by the Tanzanian government in collaboration with the Clinton Foundation HIV–AIDS Initiative and other partners. The plan is to have 400,000 HIV-infected Tanzanians receiving antiretroviral drugs by 2008 and another 1.2 million enrolled in care. Many will travel long distances to get to an HIV clinic. Ligula Hospital has radiography and ultrasonography but lacks specialists, oxygen therapy, an ICU, and CT scanners.

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Dr. Delilah Kimambo examines a chest radiograph of a patient with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Zeeman is an assistant professor of medicine and staff physician at the Center for Infectious Disease at Boston Medical Center, Boston, and an emergency physician at MetroWest Medical Center, Natick and Framingham, MA.