By Daran Rehmeyer | Executive Director
The CHIPS mobile medical outreach reaches hundreds of people every week. If a person tests positive for HIV, CHIPS’ nurses immediately begin the initiation process to start the person on lifesaving ARVs. ARVs are the drugs that fight the HIV virus and keep HIV positive people healthy. As part of the HIV related services CHIPS provide, the nurses provide ARV refills to several hundred people from the communities CHIPS reaches.
Phindile could never have afforded the cost of transport to one of the government clinics, hospitals or health centers for the treatment she knew she needed. She had tested for HIV at one of the CHIPS community outreaches and found she was positive. She knew that without treatment she would ultimately succumb to the “wasting disease” and leave her family motherless. With CHIPS providing the ARVs she needed to fight the disease, it was an easy choice to have the CHIPS nurses provide the care she needed right where she lived.
Today, Phindile is confident of being able to take care of her family and makes sure she comes to her appointments on schedule to receive her ARVs and tests. She keeps a good and positive attitude knowing as long as CHIPS is in her community she will be able to maintain her health!
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