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