After our meeting with Dr. Reddy, we proceeded to the HIV wards at SRH. This has become one of my favorite activities when I visit Hyderabad. The HIV wards consist of four adjacent rooms in a one-story building near the north end of the campus. Across the dirt road is another one story building, which [...]
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Tara arrived over the weekend and today was her first day at SRH. I hired a taxi and picked her up near Bashir Bagh, at her uncle’s house. We made the one hour trip to SRH uneventfully and were taken immediately to the guest house, where she and Akanksha will be staying. The accommodations [...]
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The new airport in Hyderabad is nice. I don’t know how old the old one was, but it was small, dirty, and inconvenient for the high flow there in recent years. With the development of the IT sector in Hyderabad (“Cyberabad“), the city desparately needed a larger airport. The new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport opened [...]
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The night before my 10 trip to India. I am actually mostly packed, which surprises me. I still don’t have a clear idea of my schedule, but I know most of what I want to accomplish:
1. Install database
2. Get my student situated at SRH for the summer
3. Assess the SRH slum and PPTCT projects, since [...]
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I am informed that the Sivananda Rehabilitation Home was forced to close the doors of its not-for-profit medical center, The Ramadev Rao Hospital. The reason is that it was not financially viable. This is a sad outcome, after 6 years.
A new project they have started is biweekly visits to an area slum. They provide basic [...]
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