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" Name:  Dr. Anja Giphart Age:  42 Job:  Country director, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Location:  Tanzania Notable quote:  &amp;quot;The worst days are when I see young people dying from a preventable disease.&amp;quot;  Mention the AIDS crisis in Africa, and most Western doctors shake their heads over the 25 million people-including 2 million children-who are now infected. But where others see doom, Dutch-born Anja Giphart finds hope. As the head doctor for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Tanzania, her motto is simple: one by one.  Q: You&amp;#039;re a long way from home.  A: When I was in medical school, I got an internship in South Africa and traveled a lot throughout the continent. I knew I wanted to come back. In Holland, health care is accessible to everybody. If I practiced medicine back home, I&amp;#039;d be just another doctor. In Africa, I&amp;#039;m needed more. My skills can make a difference.  Q: How did you get interested in AIDS?  A: Part of it had to do with feeling frustrated by seeing all these severely ill adults and children infected with the disease \u2014 a disease that can be prevented. My job now is twofold: the care and treatment of HIV-positive kids, and heading up the mother-to-child transmission prevention program, so babies are not born infected.    Q: Is living in Tanzania a culture shock?  A: The living conditions vary widely. Dar es Salaam, the capital, where I live, is almost a Western city. You can get anything you want \u2014 there are restaurants, clothing stores, and so on-as long as you have the money. The rural regions are much more basic. We have clinics in four regions of the country.  Q: How has your family adjusted?  A: My husband is American, and he&amp;#039;s working with a local NGO that teaches polio victims welding skills and how to make art out of scrap metal. We have three children, all adopted. Two are from Mozambique, where I worked before Tanzania. The mother of our second child died at the hospital where I was working. We wanted to reunite the boy with his father, but the father left the hospital and never came back. So my husband and I adopted him.  Q: What&amp;#039;s surprising about AIDS in Tanzania?  A: That it&amp;#039;s the educated and better-off people who are becoming infected at the fastest rate. Poor people don&amp;#039;t travel; they are isolated in their rural villages. It&amp;#039;s the people with more economic means, who travel from city to city, who are coming in contact with the virus and, unfortunately, spreading it in their communities.  Q: Is it going to get worse?  A: The prevalence of AIDS in Tanzania is lower than in southern Africa. The new issue has to do with antiretroviral drugs; today, people are living with AIDS for years. So how do we care for them? For now, by making sure every person has access to a health-care provider and accurate information about the treatment program to stay healthy.  Click here to purchase the bag shown above to support the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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