Chapter ID: CBB856890161

Narrowed Passages, Increased Pressures: Adult Hypertension and Paediatric Hiv in Botswana (2021)

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After a few weeks of observing at the Superlative Clinic, Botswana’s only outpatient paediatric HIV clinic, I had begun to get used to the routine: At 7.30 a.m. the doors opened to the queue of adults and children waiting outside.¹ The queue then moved inside, where they waited to check in at the reception desk with Mma Goitsemang, the Clinic’s receptionist, who assigned them a pink numbered card.² The nurse assigned to triage began taking the children one by one to a small room behind the reception area, documenting their weight and temperature. The Clinic’s paediatricians, many of them young

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Authors & Contributors
Livingston, Julie
Loeckx, Renilde
Judith Sutz
Molosiwa, Phuthego Phuthego
King, Brian
Jose Catalan
Concepts
Health care
Public health
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV)
Medicine and society
Medicine
Epidemics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Botswana
Africa
United Kingdom
Rwanda
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
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