Notice: This website is online only as an archive & a resource, as Panos London is no longer active.
For more information on the active Panos network and what Panos London achieved visit panos.org.uk.
12/22/2010
Every year for the last three years a group of influential women made up of locals and expatriates gets together to raise money for the children in the hospital who are HIV positive or who have cancer. The proceeds go towards getting Christmas presents for the children. Our social worker becomes Santa’s helper and gets a wishlist…
12/01/2010
My work in HIV takes up a lot of my time, but it’s not all that I do. I am also a mother and wife and in spite of all I do at work, I always try to make time for my family. I am married and I have two boys, 10 and seven years…
11/11/2010
Today I found a very important baby – a baby my team and I had been trying to find for a year. This was one of the last of the 18 HIV positive babies that had gone missing after their mothers stopped bringing them into our HIV clinic for treatment. We now only have one…
10/19/2010
Research plays a crucial role in advancing HIV care, treatment and prevention. As doctors, we carry out research so that we can show it to the people who have the power to change things. Back in 1990s there were no paediatric HIV clinics in Jamaica – and there was no research on paediatric HIV in the country. I…
09/27/2010
When I started working in HIV peadiatric care in 1995 at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital in Kingston there was no HIV medication available in Jamaica to give to babies born HIV positive. The most we could do for the babies was treat the infections brought on by the HIV virus, manage their nutrition and try…
09/09/2010
HIV work is my purpose. I can’t separate HIV from my personal life. It’s who I am and what I’m called to do. I always knew I wanted to be a doctor. It’s a dream I had cherished from when I was really small. As a little girl, I had a toy stethoscope. I was…
