Kenya Medical Mission presentation to the Southern Pines NC Rotary Club

This Friday the 13th I gave a presentation at the Southern Pines NC Rotary club on the September 2008 Rotary Medical Mission to Kenya. This was the largest medical mission in Rotary’s history. Over 70 volunteers treated about 10,000 children in three slums in and around Nairobi during a two week period.

Because of my experience in the development of HIV test I visited several Voluntary Testing and Counseling clinics during this trip. These efforts are supported by Rotarians for Fighting Aids and the US government among others.

http://www.rffa.org/

More information is at http://kenyaaidscarl.blogspot.com/

A kitten I met in Kenya

It is always good to take a nap after eating a GNU. Too bad it wasn't a hedge fund manager.

Joined Rotarians for Fighting AIDS

Yesterday I received my lifetime membership pin for RFFA. Marion Bunch introduced me to this organization during the Rotary Medical Mission to Kenya this September. It is of special interest because of my involvement in the development of HIV tests that are used around the world. I encourage others to join.

Please check out their web page: http://www.rffa.org/ and join.

New polio video from Rotary and DNA vaccines

I am currently listening to a podcast on DNA vaccines. The advantage of such vaccines is that new vaccines can be made by changing the DNA sequence rather than developing new growth and processing technology for each new vaccine. However, they are not yet working well. These could be better than the current vaccines for polio once the technology is perfected.

http://www.genengnews.com/gencasts.aspx

Attended three Rotary meetings in the Southern Pines NC area

We are in Southern Pines with our horse and dog. There are three large Rotary clubs in the area: Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Sandhills.. I attended all three this week.

It was good to renew acquaintances from last year. I will probably make presentations on the Rotary medical missions to Kenya I participated in last year.

The Sandhills club meets at the Carolina hotel that includes a great breakfast buffet with music

http://www.southernpinesrotary.org/

http://www.pinehurstrotaryclub.org/

http://www.furniturelandrotary.org/Clubs/WhereClubsMeet/Sandhills.shtm

ONBH Traning Fox Hounds in MA

In memory of a great horse, Kahlua

We had to put down Kahlua this monday. She was a great horse but the time had come to stop the suffering from an infection secondary to Cushings disease. We will miss her.