My first impression of IU House is that it is summer camp for physicians. This is most certainly an oversimplified view of a much more complex program, but the camaraderie and spirit at the house elicits a certain charm that I find incredibly compelling.
Read MoreHere I am. Fighting, working, running, writing, practicing gratitude.
Read MoreI tried to convince him that his dreams of going to college and working as an architect are possible if we can get his virus suppressed.
Read MoreIt is December 1, World AIDS Day, and I am so excited for Celebration in Red.
Read MoreIn 2004, when he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, Gordon Brown gave a speech describing how the world was failing poor families – and poor babies in particular.
Read MoreYou have to follow a series of bumpy, dusty trails to find Brenda’s home.
Read MoreEthan is 18, and he has been living with HIV since he was born. For the first years of his life, he was sickly and small. Every day, in the silence of her heart, his mother wept for him.
Read MoreThis is the real story that I get to hear many times, for many children. From death to life. And even though it is a story we hear over and over, you can’t grow tired of the miracle.
Read MoreMiriam is 15-years-old, and she lives at a children’s home for orphans just outside of Eldoret.
Read MoreShe walked all this way to collapse in my exam room
Read MoreI want you to hear the stories of these women and children who sit in my cramped exam room, whose hands I hold, in whose eyes I see hope and despair and determination.
Read More"Would you prefer the happiness of scratching a mosquito bite over the happiness of not having a mosquito bite in the first place?"
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