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The Inner Temple's groundbreaking social mobility initiative has hit the 50-partner milestone following the confirmation of two new chambers.
Hardwicke Chambers and Three Raymond Buildings are the latest to join the Pegasus Access Scheme (PAS), which was launched with 43 partners in March 2012.
At the time of the launch, chair of the Inner Temple Outreach Committee James Dingemans QC said: "No one institution can address all of the issues surrounding social mobility and access to the professions, but everyone has a responsibility to do what can be done to break down any potential barriers to entry."
The Inner Temple has also confirmed that a few other sets are due to become members imminently.
PAS gives candidates from underrepresented backgrounds the opportunity to take part in a range of mini pupillages.
The criteria for the scheme includes the requirements for the candidate to have attended a state school, to be in the first generation of their family to go into higher education, and to have been eligible for free school meals.
The news follows the creation of the first profession-wide social mobility initiative Prime, which now boasts almost 75 law firm signatories (14 September 2011).
The first round of PAS applications closed last week, but a second round will open in September 2012.
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Ten years ago, Womens's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx) answered a call from Rwandan women's associations to help women with HIV gain access to life saving antiretroviral therapy. Many of the women in these associations had been raped and infected during the genocide and were becoming sicker and had no medicines for HIV. The men who had raped them were in jail and they were receiving medicines for their HIV infection. Working with these grassroots women's groups and the Rwandan public health system, WE-ACTx set up a clinic to quickly assess and start these women on antiretroviral medications for HIV.
The program expanded over the last decade and has provided comprehensive medical and psychosocial care to over 3000 women, men and children with HIV. Mental health treatment, support groups, nutritional supplements, income generation, vocational training, school fees, peer advocacy, children and youth friendly programs have made a tremendous impact in improving the health and well being of the patients. This all Rwandan staffed multidiscplinary program is a model for high quality HIV care in subSarharan Africa.]]>
The 10th Anniversary Celebration to benefit WE-ACTx
October 16th, 2014, 6-8:30 P.M.
Latin School of Chicago
45 W. North Blvd
Chicago, IL
Silent and live auctions, food, Rwandan Craft sale – all to raise money for our two WE-ACTx clinics in Rwanda.
Can't make it? Make a donation!
Here is what your ticket or donation can really do!
WE-ACTx BENEFIT TICKET PRICES
$100 Family Caregiver
Supports a peer advocate salary for 1 week
$150 Health Maintainer
Supports eight youth peer outreach counselors for one month
$250* Comprehensive Caregiver
Pays for one week of nutritional snacks for 250 youth at Sunday support group
$700* Group Practitioners Table for 8
Pays for a Youth Coordinator for one month
$1,300* Clinic Level Supporter – Two tables for eight
Supports a head nurse for one month
$50 Community Health Supporter
Student Ticket
Provides emergency assistance for a family for one week
*Name listed in program book
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Auction items range from vacation getaways to donated items guaranteed to delight and surprise.
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The 10th Anniversary Celebration to benefit WE-ACTx
October 16th, 2014, 6-9 P.M.
Latin School of Chicago
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October 16th, 2014, 6-9 P.M.
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Dear friends
Last Sunday WE-ACTx celebrated 10 years in Rwanda with a giant anniversary party in Kigali. Over 400 children in pink and black T- shirts (silkscreened by Dutette, one of the income generation cooperatives of WE-ACTx For Hope patients) came with their parents to sing, dance, hear speeches and testimonials, and enjoy a buffet lunch and huge cake. Joined by WE-ACTx For Hope Board members, partners, and representatives of the government, staff and patients cheered our commitment to caring and respect for those with HIV and their families. It was a day of joy, though many in attendance were moved to tears as we heard stories of gratitude and adversities the patients had overcome.
I couldn't imagine during that first trip to Kigali in April 2004 how many times I would return and how many wonderful people I would work with and get close to. But when I think about the first year, I'm not really surprised that we defied the odds and are still here, working collaboratively with so many to meet all the challenges.
Within days of arriving 10 years ago, I met Frank who helped develop the income generation program. Five months later when I came to staff the clinic for a month, I met Christine who now works in the pharmacy, Marcel who drives us, Seraphine who cooks at the house in Kyovu, Josee who takes care of young children in the clinic, and Naila who helps advocate for patients. That's when Mary Fabri (who took the pictures in this email) came to help integrate mental health care into primary HIV care. By January 2005 I had met Felicite, now the WE-ACTx For Hope Board president, Henriette, the trauma counselor and Youth Program Director, Chantal, Director of WE-ACTx For Hope, and Irene, the trauma counselor. Chantal and Rose, 2 nurses in the clinic, joined soon after that. We knew we had to respond to the urgency of HIV in 2004 and 2005 and we have kept at it, facing new challenges but remaining committed to reaching the highest quality of life, and physical and mental health for our patients. Though we have grown considerably, more than 1/3 of the current staff worked together that first year of WE-ACTx to build the clinic services and meet the emergency of getting medications to the very sick.
At the celebration we gave certificates of appreciation to the many staff who have worked with us for 10 years and 5 years. Patients gave moving testimonials about how their lives have improved. And we applauded the 52 patients who first came looking for antiretroviral medications in 2004 and who are well and strong and still coming to the clinic 10 years later.
Here is a Rwandan article on the event with some other pictures http://www.igihe.com/ubuzma/indwara/article/umuryango-we-actx-for-hope-umaze
It was a day of many smiles as children of all ages performed traditional dance, hip hop, played guitar and drums, and sang. With help from talented older youth and Musicians Without Borders' Chris Nicholsen (the music therapist from England), the children's groups wowed us all. Their discipline in preparing their performances, and their exuberance to participate with their friends and families warmed everyone's heart. Seeing so many healthy children and families reminds us how far we have come with access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), disclosure discussions with children and their mothers, youth support groups, improving adherence and giving hope.
Of the ~2000 WE-ACTx patients on ART, 81% have undetectable virus, which means the medication regimen has been successful in suppressing their virus and in preventing transmission. In July, the Rwandan government protocol will be revised to begin antiretroviral therapy earlier in HIV infected persons (at a CD4 count of 500, instead of current 350 level). That will mean 120 additional WE-ACTx For Hope patients will be starting ART in the next 6 months.
As in Chicago, and other settings some patients find it very hard to take their medications regularly and get very sick. We have utilized Direct Observational Therapy (D.O.T.) for several young patients. They come daily to the clinic and take their medication from the nurse who also gives them a small snack. This week I saw again one of WE-ACTx For Hope's amazing success stories: a 20 year old orphan living with his brother, who was very sick with malnutrition and TB and advanced HIV. He was nurtured back to health with medications and a hot meal brought daily by one of the staff and has now gained over 40 pounds and will return to school. We just enrolled another patient, a 20 year old mother of an 18 month old who is depressed who finds it very difficult to take her medication regularly and is very immunocompromised. I hope we have success here as well. Although D.O.T. is labor intensive for the patient and our staff, and expensive in terms of transport it has worked for young patients who we don't want to give up on.
On a sadder note, we still have not found a school for Pretty, who I wrote about several months ago. She is 16 and unable to talk since a stroke from HIV vasculitis 18 months ago. Services for disabled persons are rare and not adequate in Kigali. We are reaching out to Handicap International, and advocates who have created alternatives here for their own children and others. I hope to be able to report some progress on this soon.
WE-ACTx continues to attract interns. This summer, two interns are working on improving the income generation programs. Always challenging to find markets, to keep hope when orders are fewer and to develop better accounting literacy, it's nice to have Brian from Chicago and Allison from Boston helping the groups out. Summer camp will again generously be supported by The Latin School in Chicago during the end of July and beginning of August, and a group of Latin students will join the peer parents in running the camps at Nyacyonga (rural clinic area) and downtown.
Our NIH-funded study to improve adherence more generally in youth 14-21 is going very well. The youth leaders, trained by Mary Fabri, are currently delivering the 6-session intervention (psychoeducation, relaxation, and trauma informed cognitive behavioral therapy) to the second group of participants. The groups run smoothly and everyone participates enthusiastically. Attendance at the intervention sessions is very high for the youth and for their caregivers/parents. The Rwandan research psychologists who supervise the program are superb. Here's a picture of the team with Josette, one of the psychologists.
Today's world is a difficult one, with so many conflicts in every part of the globe. But we have a special healing space in Rwanda, one of the sites of terrible past conflict, giving hope in a worrisome world. At WE-ACTx For Hope people from different parts of the world are working together and building a better model. A local model where people matter, where we try new things and try to do the best we can to overcome past trauma and lifelong infections. We thank our patients who have stood by us and continue to inspire us, and the staff who have worked so hard and continue to be committed to high quality service. And we thank you, our supporters for being there for all of us.
This year has seen an exciting fundraising development. Three young couples have suggested to their friends and families to donate to WE-ACTx in honor of their marriages. (Full Disclosure: 2 of the couples are part of my family, and one is part of Linda Mellis's family, the Chicago WE-ACTx Coordinator.) To Davida and Sim, Daniel and April, and Eugene and Hima: many many thanks for spreading your love to WE-ACTx and Rwanda.
Thanks for your support,
Eugene and Hima were fortunate to be able to visit Rwanda while Eugene's mom, Mardge, was working there last January. They saw the WE-ACTx clinic as well as participated in caring for patients at the nearby hospital, CHUK, within the infectious disease department. They were so moved by what they saw, and by the people they met, and want to nurture their connection with Rwanda and WE-ACTx.
They are asking their family and friends to celebrate their love and marriage by donating to WE-ACTx to help women and children in Rwanda also have healthier and happy lives.
Here's what your donations will do:
|emergency social assistance for a week
|transport for 1 child to weekly support groups for a year
|SOSOMA nutritional supplement for a youth with HIV and his/her family of 6 for a year
|supports a clinical nurse for a month
|supports youth program coordinator and 20 youth peer parents for a month
To donate Click here
To Donate by Mail:
Mail your tax deductible donations made payable to WE-ACTx to:
584 Castro Street #416
San Francisco, CA 94114
415-863-4676 x3
WE-ACTx is a US based, 501C3 tax exempt organization, EIN# 56-2572210
Learn more about WE-ACTx at www.we-actx.org or click here]]>
Kigali, January 2014
Dear friends
2014 is the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and preparations are underway here for this difficult period. The genocide memorial torch was lit in early January and will be carried countrywide concluding on April 7, the beginning of the 100-day national mourning period. Many activities are planned for learning, commemoration, and rebuilding. Kwibuka is the Kinyarwanda word for "remember" and the title of the 2014 commemoration of the 1994 "Genocide against the Tutsi." There are conflicting views on how the commemoration period affects Rwandans –whether the memorials contribute to healing or the long memorial period reignites traumatic memories. And whether the memorials increase divisions and suspicions or promote unification. This year things seem noticeably tense, with more armed soldiers patrolling the streets, probably because of the recent murder in South Africa of an exiled former colleague but now enemy of President Kagame.
For me, this Kigali visit is especially exciting because my husband Gordy is here for 10 days, and my son Eugene and his partner Hima (family medicine residents at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx) are working at the public Central University Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) for the month. They are seeing up close the growth of medical post-graduate and specialty training via the 7 year Rwandan Human Resources for Health Program, a partnership with many U.S. hospital and medical institutions to address the critical shortage of skilled health workers, poor quality of health worker education, inadequate equipment and management of health facilities.
In some ways medicine is practiced the same in hospitals all over the world: early morning rounds; students, residents, and attendings making sense out of patients' presenting symptoms; a stream of patients being admitted and discharged. But of course things are especially difficult in Rwanda's public referral hospital. Eugene and Hima have seen patients who can't afford antibiotics and have to wait too long for treatment –patients/families have to come up with the copays before a test is done or drug administered–; for others who can't afford needed scans, diagnoses remain uncertain. Interventions are delayed and there are deaths that would be preventable in the U.S. There is a nihilistic approach on the part of some young Rwandan doctors from years of these experiences. Gordy is giving presentations on patient safety and diagnostic errors in this context. He finds it particularly challenging and exciting to try to figure out how to make quality improvement principles relevant to their experience and context. Thus the whole family is grateful to be learning and contributing.
Eugene and Hima's visit to the WE-ACTx clinic and fresh-eyes observations prompted another look at our evaluation of adherence. As a result, we have created a plan to screen annually for adherence to antiretroviral medications during the first months of the year. Using a simple 3 question validated self-report tool, the nurses and doctor at the clinic already noticed that they are identifying patients who they thought were doing well but actually need more education and support to adhere well to their medications.
We have also begun more aggressive direct observation therapy for those youngsters who are not adhering well to their regimens, and have had some success. The program includes extra counseling and a meal when they come to take their medications.
Here, one of the peer advocates is pictured with a 19 year old who comes daily. He had been very sick and depressed. He was started on treatment for TB and has improved in terms of his physical well-being and his spirit to live. We will also start sending our patients who are trained as community health workers to visit those patients who have missed their appointments or need more encouragement to take their antiretroviral therapy.
And after a year of preparatory work, the research program to improve adherence in youth 14-21 through a youth led 6-week CBT group intervention has started. Recruitment at both the CHUK and WE-ACTx support group site went well. The research staff are motivated and the youth are excited to participate. Mary Fabri will train the youth leaders during February and the intervention for the first group will be completed before April, when the genocide commemoration will require everyone's full attention.
Though we work to maximize the benefits of current treatments here, we worry that Rwandans, and many others in subSaharan Africa are falling
behind in accessing the best antiretroviral therapy because of the expense and unavailability of newer and more effective medications. U.S. guidelines for initiating antiretroviral therapy now include newer protease inhibitors and integrase inhibitors and combinations that remain unavailable to HIV infected patients here in Rwanda. These drugs are considered "third line therapy" here in Rwanda and byWorld Health Organization guidelines, yet are rarely used anywhere in Africa because of high costs. We have to continue to pressure PHARMA to reduce costs and license these life saving drugs for all those who need them.
Our varied support groups continue to meet weekly to address psychosocial issues for about 500 of the 2400 patients in WE-ACTx's 2 clinics. A 6-month literacy program started this past week for 11 members of the young mother's group. Hopefully we will be able to expand the literacy program to other patients in the future.
With skills training from Musicians Without Borders, the peer parents have added music activities to what they teach during both children's Sunday groups. For the older youth, many come an hour earlier to play drums, guitar and keyboards, as well as sing and dance.
Here is the first jam session with everyone coming together: guitars, drums, singing and dancers. Chris Nicholsen, a music therapist from England who has been working with Musicians without Borders and WE-ACTx for the past 2 years brings the instruments each Sunday for these activities.
Chris also has weekly music therapy sessions with a patient we are particularly concerned about. P. just turned 16 and was perinatally infected with HIV. About 18 months ago, while at boarding school, she stopped taking her HIV medications and experienced a stroke thought to be due to HIV vasculitis. After a hospitalization and some rehab, she is unable to speak and has little strength or fine motor coordination in her right hand. This has been devastating for her and her mother. Previously she was doing very well in school and spoke fluent English. Now she is unable to go to school as she has difficulty caring for herself and because there are no dedicated schools for students with disabilities in Kigali. We have set her up with an IPAD mini to increase communication and play and enjoy music.
Here, Chris is teaching her how to electronically play guitar chords for a song. We hope that Christine, a volunteer social worker who worked with P. last year and is back in Kigali for the next 3 months, will be able to identify options for her to attend some sort of school program.
This April marks not only the 20th anniversary of the genocide, but 10 years since WE-ACTx began working in Kigali. As I reflect on the stories Eugene and Hima bring back from the hospital each day—of both what the staff is able to do and not do; of how much passion remains and how much there is a need to avoid being resigned to the seemingly ingrained disparities—I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish with WE-ACTx. Not only the actual day to day, and 10 year list of accomplishments, but that fact that we offered, and continue to deliver "hope." It had been 7 years since Gordy was last here and he was struck by the relationships (in many cases continuing since then) that have been built with the staff, the continuing packed waiting room in our downtown clinic, and the diversity of our programs (he is even going to take a guitar lesson from Chris).
So as we celebrate this anniversary we are aware of how much we have learned and contributed and how much still has to be done. We thank all of you for all your continued support.
In late May—after a day spent napping off the jet lag from my trans-Atlantic, multiple layover, journey from Boston to Rwanda—I found myself sitting in a plastic lawn chair squeezed into a small medical exam room at the Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx) clinic in Kigali.
It was my first day as a volunteer nurse at this community health initiative founded in 2004 by both foreign and domestic HIV/AIDS patients, activists, and physicians. Today, the organization provides medical and psychosocial care to HIV-infected men, women, and children. On this particular morning in the summer of 2013, I was the only foreign volunteer working at its Kigali facility, which serves over 1,800 patients. The clinic is staffed entirely by Rwandans working in interdisciplinary teams of medical and psychosocial workers.
These staff members welcomed me with a flurry of high fives, smiles, and kisses. Despite their warm reception, I was filled with apprehension when the exam room door closed behind me, heralding the arrival of my first patient. Although I would only be observing and assisting Jane, my middle-aged, white-coat-clad, fellow nurse, I was just a newly licensed RN, still operating in student-nurse learning mode. The idea that I might be making an independent contribution to a patient's clinical care plan seemed far-fetched indeed.
During my clinical rotations in nursing school, I had only cared for one or two HIV-positive patients. So, in a frantic bid to alleviate feelings of anxiety and professional inadequacy, I had spent weeks prior to my trip reading medical journal articles, global health studies, and, admittedly, Wikipedia entries on the transmission, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and treatment of HIV and AIDS. In a small notebook, I had scrawled "cheat sheets" of CD4 count-based treatment algorithms, common side effects of antiretrovirals (ARVs), and the signs and symptoms of an array of opportunistic infections. By immersing myself in as much HIV and AIDS-related research as possible, I naively hoped that I could compensate for my near total lack of practical experience working with HIV-infected patients.
When Jane's first patient walked into the exam room, I kept my little notebook of factoids and protocols close at hand. Drawing on my mastery of about ten words in Kinyarwanda, I greeted this forty-something Rwandan woman dressed in a traditional wrap skirt and matching blouse. Jane asked the patient how she was doing and the two launched into an animated discussion in Kinyarwanda that I could not understand at all.
Instead, while awaiting Jane's translation, I tried to put my skills of inspection (the first step in the physical assessment which had been drilled into my head in nursing school) to good use. I scanned the patient's skin from head-to-toe searching for rashes, discolorations, hair loss, and evidence of dermatological infections. Watching the subtle rise and fall of the patient's chest, I counted her respiratory rate and looked for any signs of labored breathing. After making a gross estimation of the patient's height and weight, I calculated her body mass index as falling somewhere in the low end of the overweight range.
Finally, I observed the patient's facial expressions, vocal intonations, and mannerisms as she chatted away with Jane. Opening up to a blank page of my notebook, I jotted down my initial clinical impression: "Middle-aged, overweight Rwandan female alert and oriented times three in no acute distress. Appropriate eye-contact, dress, and speech pattern with pleasant affect." I silently reread my assessment a few times and found myself immediately perplexed:
The red, itchy patches of cutaneous Candidiasis that prey on immunocompromised skin? Negative.
Hollow cheeks and atrophied limbs from malnourishment or HIV-wasting syndrome? The woman sitting in front of me is pleasantly plump.
Signs and symptoms of cytomegalovirus (CMV), pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP), or histoplasmosis?
Not present.
In short, where was the presentation of an HIV-positive patient living in a developing East African nation that all my pre-trip research had described?
Before even hearing her reason for coming in, I suspected I would not find a portrait of this patient among my research notes. When Jane translated the chief complaint as hot flashes and moodiness, my suspicion was confirmed. Working in a country with limited resources, immense population pressure, and a recent history of genocide and subsequent economic collapse, where I would surely encounter clinical presentations and illnesses rarely seen in the US, I formulated my first likely diagnosis: menopause.
Through a multimodal approach to care including individual and group psychosocial counseling, peer-to-peer patient education, nutrition assistance, income generation projects, and targeted support programs for children and young adults, WE-ACTx has spent the past decade tirelessly promoting patient adherence to therapeutic regimens and self-management of HIV. In its early years—when ARVs were just becoming available in Rwanda—much of WE-ACTx's work was directed at facilitating access to HIV-treatment. Faced with a patient population experiencing rapid disease progression and resulting immune system failure and opportunistic infections, WE-ACTx's priority was getting patients on life-saving drugs.
Today, the Rwandan government provides ARVs for free through a network of private and public clinics. Moreover, WE-ACTx's provider-patient partnerships have markedly increased adherence to these drugs. As a result of these collaborations, the clinic can devote more energy and resources towards primary care, in addition to HIV-specific treatment. Patients receive care for and learn how to manage medical and psychosocial issues from hypertension and diabetes to depression and domestic or interpersonal conflicts. From an organization urgently providing ARVs at a time when patients were succumbing to the disease every day, WE-ACTx has evolved into a primary care provider that addresses the holistic needs of its patients and supports their efforts to improve their overall quality of life as people living with HIV—not dying of AIDS.
Which brings me back to my first patient encounter some ten weeks ago. I was looking at the new face of HIV care at WE-ACTx: a rotund, chatty, middle-aged Rwandan woman who was fatigued, not by an opportunistic infection ravaging her immunocompromised body, but rather by a night spent tossing and turning, sweating, and stripping off her clothes as an uncomfortable wave of heat spread over her torso and left her face flushed.
None of the ARVs I had so frantically researched would relieve this sensation or other menopausal symptoms suffered by this patient and numerous others I met who were experiencing "the change" during my visit to Rwanda. In their country, hormone replacement therapy—whose utility and safety remains controversial in the US—is available from just a handful of prohibitively expensive specialists in private practice. Jane and I could only offer reassurance that these hot flashes, while distressing and disruptive, were a classic sign of a natural, inevitable physical and emotional transition rather than a harbinger of disease.
We also encouraged our middle-aged patient to discuss her experience at her weekly WE-ACTx women's support group meeting, a safe space for sharing medical, familial, and socioeconomic struggles and successes. At this session, her "treatment" would take the form of knowing smiles, nodding heads, words of commiseration, and copious amounts of laughter from fellow peri- or postmenopausal patients. Just a few years ago, this same group of patients had little hope of even reaching middle age and thus being able to experience this natural condition.
In my first encounter with menopause in Rwanda (and many other patient appointments to come), I would not deploy an arsenal of differential diagnoses or drug options. Instead, I would have the far more educational opportunity to participate in the type of interdisciplinary, patient-centered, holistic care—increasingly uncommon in the profit-driven US health system—that all patients deserve whether in a small, developing East African country or the wealthiest nation in the world.
Early, J. (in press). "The Change" in Rwanda. In Gordon, S., Feldman, D., & Leonard, M. (Eds.), Making the team: Case studies in cooperation and conflict in health care. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.]]>
Davida's mom Mardge helped start WE-ACTx in 2004 in Kigali, Rwanda to provide emergency care for women who were infected with HIV during the genocide. Davida spent a month working with WE-ACTx during medical school.
Davida and Sim are thrilled to share their love and good fortune with the patients and staff of WE-ACTx. They've already created a home together, and don't need material gifts to fill it. They would rather share the joy of their union by supporting WE-ACTx's mission in Rwanda. The good will of your donation warms their hearts and will help many patients with HIV and their families become healthier and live longer, and build a better world.
Here's how far your donations can go:
|emergency social assistance for a week
|transport for 1 child to weekly support groups for a year
|SOSOMA nutritional supplement for a youth with HIV and his/her family of 6 for a year
|supports a clinical nurse for a month
|supports youth program coordinator and 20 youth peer parents for a month
To donate Click here
To Donate by Mail:
Mail your tax deductible donations made payable to WE-ACTx to:
584 Castro Street #416
San Francisco, CA 94114
415-863-4676 x3
WE-ACTx is a US based, 501C3 tax exempt organization, EIN# 56-2572210
Learn more about WE-ACTx at www.we-actx.org or click here
Dear friends,
It's official. Two weeks ago, the Minister of Health accredited WE-ACTx For Hope (WE-ACTx's vibrant partner in Rwanda, led by Chantal Benekigeri) to manage the clinic in downtown Kigali—a very exciting step toward helping ensure local control, responsibility and sustainability. WE-ACTx For Hopes's forty Rwandan staff provide medical and psychosocial care to more than 2000 patients at this site. Support for their work is of course still needed and will continue to come from WE-ACTx supporters in the US (as well as supporters in Canada, Australia, etc.). But these steps forward allow the clinic to be much more integrated into the Rwandan public health system and enable access to additional resources available for local NGOs. This includes consultations to assess patients who might need third line antiretroviral regimens because of viral resistance and continued quality improvement activities to maintain WE-ACTx FH's high retention rates (>94%).
Even with these exciting new developments, WE-ACTx's summer activities follow a regular pattern. Each summer begins with the June 16th Day of the African Child event. WE-ACTx sponsors 1000 people, including 400 young patients and their siblings and parents at the Presidential Palace Museum, home of former President Habyarimana whose plane was shot down in April 1994 (the plane is still left on the grounds). A wonderful day of celebration and appreciation inspires everyone.
Then the summer interns arrive – a variety of young folks who volunteer and are integrated into the workings of the program. This summer Jessica Early re-joins us. She is now a student in the RN/NP program at Yale. Jess was a volunteer with WE-ACTx in 2009 when she facilitated the youth leaders group and helped the income generation sewing collective, Ineza, develop a website with their stories and mission. Now she's using her new nursing skills to work in the clinic each morning, learning and sharing. She's also helping us catalogue the stories and priorities of the members of the Young Mother's Group (a support group for about 20 women who have young children and few resources). We've learned that in addition to their precarious housing, lack of income, history of rape and abuse, and significant stigma because of their HIV, almost half are illiterate. As is the case with much our work and journey here, this discovery had led us to branch out to explore ways to develop a literacy program for these young mothers, which they (and we) feel will help them, their children and their future.
Each July, another returning volunteer, Gia Marotta, prepares the annual summer camp sponsored by Latin School in Chicago. Since 2009, Gia has returned to Kigali and directed this wonderful summer arts youth camp for about 50 HIV infected WE-ACTx patients ages 11-13. Students from Latin School in Chicago raise funds ($20,000) each year for this camp and a group of Latin high school students and their advisor (Ingrid Dorer Fitzpatrick) return each summer to assist. This year, the staff filled the roster with new campers along with a few youngsters who had been at camp previously but who staff felt would benefit from the increased attention. And then the protests began!
A group of 13 year olds organized to demand to return to camp as well. They argued their case, with strength in numbers. The staff heard them out and after an energetic discussion reached an agreement to offer a special program starting next year for those who have already been to camp. The picture above was taken after the resolution. We love their spirit (and the added demands it has placed on us)!
One 12 year old who will be coming back to camp this summer is Simon (not his real name). Simon's family is very poor. Each month, his mother tells us she has to choose between paying the rent and feeding Simon and his 14 year old sister and 5 year old brother. The family is one of those receiving the WE-ACTx's monthly Sosoma (nutritious porridge) supplements, but as they have little else to eat and use it as a meal for everyone, it lasts only 2 weeks. Simon learned about his HIV status when he was 10 and has been having some difficulties at home and school since then. He had to repeat second year of primary school and hasn't been in school for the past term because he lacks the needed school fees. He has taken to stealing hardware like door handles and locks and water faucets to sell to get money for food. Two months ago he was caught and put in jail with adults. In Rwanda, it is illegal to send children like Simon who are under 14 to jail. We learned later this can be challenged but requires some proof of their age (few here are born in a hospital and have a birth certificate). Simon was abused in jail and wasn't given any of his HIV medications, and his HIV relapsed. Upon his release, his mother brought him to WE-ACTx and he was hospitalized for a week. The psychosocial team, with help from Mary Fabri, long term WE-ACTx Mental Health Director (and my close colleague and friend from Chicago), is working intensively with Simon and his mother. Funds are being secured for rent for the family and school fees for Simon. We are sensitizing the staff to more swiftly learn about any jailings to ensure that younger patients are freed and older ones receive their medications while there.
This summer, Project Air (the amazing Yoga program in Rwanda working within WE-ACTx support groups) has started a new yoga group for young women. The girls did not want to learn yoga with boys and had trouble finding clothes they were comfortable in to practice. So Deirdre Summberbell, Project Air Founder & Director, secured yoga mats and free flowing stylish yoga pants which magically jump-started their yoga postures as you see above. Deirdre is training two WE-ACTx patients to be yoga teachers in a program supported by Chicago donors. The way our patients have latched onto this approach to heal their minds and bodies has been extraordinary. Particularly for this new girl/young women's group, their strength and discipline have been motivating and inspiring and we look forward to their next steps.
Unfortunately, the Rwandan government has significantly reduced the number of scholarships to the national university, so many WE-ACTx youth finishing secondary school are unable to continue their education and are unemployed. Unemployment among youth in Kigali is high (like the very high rates being reported in Europe, and among African American young men in the U.S.). Thus for the past 6 months, WE-ACTx has been hiring youth leaders who completed secondary school to work. These paid interns assist in the clinic with administrative tasks, educating patients, and facilitate the Sosoma distribution program. The interns have done a great job. Above, Malka (left, in white and with arms raised) is having a "clinic chat" with young patients during the Wednesday Children's Clinic Day. She is encouraging them to take their medications, and answering their questions about living with HIV. She has already become one of our most dynamic teachers and very much appreciated by the patients.
Unlike what many of you all back in the states are experiencing these past few weeks, our temperatures have been beautiful here in Kigali (60s at night and 75-80 during the day). However the more moderate temperatures can't cool our anger about the continuing injustices and unmet needs of WE-ACTx For Hope's patients. Every day we see examples that remind us that caring for people with HIV requires all of us to be respectful, creative and giving, and to struggle for a more just world. Our passions from our first-hand work and relationships with our patients and staff continue to motivate our commitment to support that struggle.
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This article explains where Apple Loops are installed with Logic Pro X and MainStage 3.
When you install Logic Pro X or MainStage 3 and choose to install all the additional content, the Apple Loops are installed in /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple. There will be a folder there for each collection installed:
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Loops you create in Logic Pro X are saved in your Home folder under /Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops/. To access these loops from the Finder:
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This review is from: Polk Audio Monitor Series New Monitor 25C Two-Way Center Channel Loudspeaker (Cherry) Single
Pros: I only post reviews when I really like something, or when I hate it! This channel speaker falls into the 1st category big time!
Cons: The speaker is huge, really! For me this isn't a con at all as I have a stand above the TV and it sounds amazing from there. Also due to the shape of it, if you have a hard floor surface, you can leave it under the TV but upside-down and it will face upward at a distance of about 6-7 feet it will be at the perfect level. But again, for some the large size may be a problem.
Other Thoughts: This speaker is large, inefficient (meaning that it needs lots of power) and relatively cheap but produces excellent sound that fills my entire room (25x20) and is has a great build quality. I am powering it with Marantz SR5008 (100 WPC @ 8 ohm) and I am able to turn it up to levels that I can't tolerate for more than a minute or two. I can also turn it way down - and still hear clear dialog. Is there something better? No doubt, but it is a great deal and I suspect that once reviews pick up and it becomes popular, price will go up!
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Great Center Channel Speaker
This review is from: Polk Audio Monitor Series New Monitor 25C Two-Way Center Channel Loudspeaker (Cherry) Single
Pros: Excellent sound and voice production, crisp clear vocals and a lot more bass than you will get from other center channel speakers. Matches my 75T speakers really well. I compared this to my Martin Logan Motion 8 Center Channel that costs 2-3 times what the 25C costs and they sound extremely close, but the Polk is more full bodied sound, it just depends on what you are looking for in a center. The 25C is a "full sound spectrum" whereas other centers may be more mids and highs only. I tested it in my 20 x 20 family room with Polk Tower 75Ts (from Newegg) and did not have to turn it up very much, the projection in the room was great at all volumes. Got it in about 3-4 days from Newegg in perfect condition. Love it so far.
Cons: None at this point. It is very large so you need to make sure you have the space. It fits very well on a table below my screen in my media room.
Other Thoughts: As compared to other centers, I think this has a much wider sound spectrum due to the 2 6 1/2 inch woofers and the rear port. It has a high quality feel to it and weighs almost 20 pounds, representative of quality construction for a solid and deep overall sound.
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Very nice center channel speaker
This review is from: Polk Audio Monitor Series New Monitor 25C Two-Way Center Channel Loudspeaker (Cherry) Single
Pros: Excellent sound quality and very clear. Cherry finish is attractive to boot. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone on a budget looking for good speakers.
Cons: None so far; will update my review if any issues crop up.
Other Thoughts: As others have pointed out, this is a large speaker (not a bad thing at all). I got this on sale with Polk New Monitor 75T pair (front sides), 65T pair (rear/sides), and 45B bookshelf speakers (for additional surround or height channels).
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Great center!
This review is from: Polk Audio Monitor Series New Monitor 25C Two-Way Center Channel Loudspeaker (Cherry) Single
Pros: I just added this center to what was a 2.1 setup I have promonitor 70s as fronts and this speaker brought my setup to a whole new levels vocals for movies and music are nice and clear this speaker sounds great!
Cons: It is huge, this could be an issue for some, however not a real con just something to watch out for.
Other Thoughts: Buy it! You won't regret it especially when its as low as $130.
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It's festival time!! This is NashiCon's fifth year, and we're moving on up in the world! We're relocating to the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, right beside Columbia's Vista entertainment district. We're expecting our first big name guest, and some major changes are happening all around. Join us for what we hope will be the highlight of your convention season!
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Have you met up with any of your fabulous cake friends?
I would love you all to share your stories and pictures of meetings you have had with the cake friends you have made online :)
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I would love you all to share your stories and pictures of meetings you have had with the cake friends you have made online :)
Raewyn, Sydney, Australia https://www.facebook.com/cakesbyraewyn
miettes ...
None thus far, Rae but would LOVE to meet everyone I met online!!!
Bev Murray ...
Elli and I are going to the Birmingham cake international show together next month so watch this space!
luna ...
I would like to meet you, but it is problem, because I am from Slovakia. I want to go visit the exhibition in Farnham next year in March. I was there this year too.:-)
cakealicious77 ...
I would love to meet everybody but unfortunately
you are all on the other side of the world!! We
all need to make a plan to get together ????
Elli Warren ...
Hi Raewyn! like Bev said we are going to cake international next month and am very excited to be going with her, we have become great friends since meeting on this website, am really hoping we will meet other ladies from cake decor too, so if anyone else is going on Saturday 9th november would love to see you there! hopefully we will have some pictures for you then Raewyn!! :-)
Laura Loukaides ...
I will be at Cake International on the 9th November too!!
It would be lovely to meet some people there, even though I am painfully shy.
I can't wait to go, ive never been before but being in the same room as people who love the same thing as you is going to be amazing!! – Counting the days!! Xx
Elli Warren ...
Hi Laura! thats wonderful that your going on the same day! would be lovely to meet and say hello, i will pm you some details and hopefully will see you there! :-) x
Daniela Pantaleo ...
Rae..I'm looking forward to meeting you and Jacinta from Kidacity when I travel across the world to Australia in January! Now that will be a great start to the new year meeting you two lovely ladies. I can't wait….
I am going to have to see who else I can put on my list to see while I'm in OZ!
I did just recently meet some lovely Canadian cake decorators- Sam from Evie & Mallow, Chrissie Boon from Icing Inpirations and will be attending Cake Carnival in a few short weeks where I will get to meet Marina Sousa, James Roselle, Elisa Strauss, Mary Mahar, Joshua John Russell AND Karen Portaleo…
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10 Billion Earth-Like Planets May Exist in Our Galaxy
About 40 percent of red dwarf stars may have Earth-sized planets orbiting them that have the right conditions for life.
Red dwarfs – which are smaller and cooler than our sun – are extremely common, making up 80 percent of stars in the galaxy. Their ubiquity suggests that there are tens of billions of possible places to look for life beyond Earth, with at least 100 such planets located nearby.
The new estimate comes from a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's HARPS planet-hunting telescope to look at a sample of 102 nearby red dwarfs over a six-year period. The telescope checked for a characteristic wobble from the star, indicating that at least one planet was tugging on it while orbiting around.
The search found nine planets with between one and 10 Earth masses, including two in the habitable zone, possibly giving them the right temperature to have liquid water. Because red dwarfs don't produce as much heat as our sun, their habitable zones occur much closer to the star.
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