It’s off to work we go!
We got a chance to meet with the Swaziland director of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to discuss the national distribution and implementation of the DoseRight dosing clips. We got a number of excellent ideas of where we can help out, such helping make job aids of how to use these clips for the rural clinics, creating a distribution algorithm to easily calculate the number of clips a clinic would need to order based on the number of births they have, and designing surveys to gather feedback regarding the clips when we actually go to the clinics. We also briefly discussed the liquid ARV adherence method that we are developing . It turns out that previous BTB interns in Lesotho actually have developed a similar liquid ARV adherence method, so we suggested that we see how the technique works for Swazi medications. If we can get a method working, perhaps CHAI will adopt it to implement it throughout Swaziland! Now with our plates full, Caren and I are very excited and can’t wait to get working next week!
Another excellent advancement- our dosing clip study was approved by the Rice IRB! We are now one step closer to actually being able to conduct the study before leaving.
Adventure time- this weekend, we hiked Sibebe Rock, which is the largest granite rock in the world! It was my first time hiking, and it was a great experience. Following a map of rocks with yellow splotches of paint along our trail, we hiked and enjoyed some breathtaking scenery!
