Busy days

A busy day yesterday and another one today, so will keep this brief... another visit to a puskesmas - a large one as you can see. Then in the afternoon a return visit to a puskesmas for post-test counseling. We are finding some HIV-positive pregnant women through the program, so that's good, but of course stressful too. Even for a trained counselor it's hard to tell anyone, including a pregnant woman, that they are HIV positive (and in the case of a pregnant woman, that their child might be infected too). In the evening, another kelompok diskusi where a person living with HIV talked to a group of gay men and waria -very moving.

The other big thing is that I'm researching with the GC staff possibilities for future funding for the organization. Some of the proposals are AMAZINGLY complicated (with 150-page forms!), so this will be a major project for the next month and something I can actually talk about in my research. Quite interesting. Even busy form-filling work can be part of anthropology!