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Update on Bashir
KCA’s Director of Development, Jennifer, traveled to Uganda and Rwanda last month to visit Alive Medical Services and the Centreville Clinic. While in Uganda, Jenn met Bashir for the first time. Bashir is one of nearly 2,000 patients receiving anti-retroviral treatment at Alive Medical Services. After only four months of comprehensive HIV care, Bashir has gained nearly 30 pounds. His health improved dramatically in the first 30 days of treatment; but then, he developed tuberculosis and was diagnosed with Kaposi’s sarcoma, a cancer common among people living with HIV/AIDS. Thanks to the extensive treatment of opportunistic infections at Alive Medical Services, Bashir has recovered from TB and continues to do well on his cancer treatment.
In this video we share with you now, Bashir is looking at photographs of his transformation that we published in the 2009 Black Ball Journal (read the story here). He was so moved to know that so many people he’s never met have read his story and care about him and his health. This is the impact that you, our Keep a Child Alive donors and members, are making in the lives of the people we serve. Thank you for being a part of this movement, and please help us keep many more people like Bashir alive.
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