Work related news...

We were published in this month's AIDS.

Early clinical and immune response to NNRTI-based antiretroviral therapy among women with prior exposure to single-dose nevirapine. Chi BH, Sinkala M, Stringer EM, Cantrell RA, Mtonga V, Bulterys M, Zulu I, Kankasa C, Wilfert C, Weidle PJ, Vermund SH, Stringer JS. AIDS 2007, 21:957-964.

A couple of weeks ago, we learned that an abstract we submitted to the 4th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention was accepted as a poster. The conference will be held in Sydney from July 22-25.

Simple assessments of adherence to antiretroviral therapy predict virologic failure in HIV infected patients in Lusaka, Zambia. Goldman JD, Mumba P, Cantrell RA, Levy J, Limbada M, Morris M, Mulenga L, Reid S, Chisembele Taylor A, Chi BH, Vermund SH, Stringer JS.

The one that got away...

Happy Easter. In Zambia, both Good Friday and the Monday after Easter are holidays, so a couple of friends and I decided to go camping and fishing on the Zambezi River. The Zambezi is the 4th largest river in Africa.
Meet Glenn, a UN volunteer, and Larry, the lab director at CIDRZ.
We were fishing for Tiger fish like this one.
We stayed at Kiambi Safari. To get there, you drive about 2 hours East out of Lusaka to Chirundu and take the Kafue pontoon ferry across the Kafue river. From the Kafue ferry, Kiambi is about 20 minutes or so depending on the state of the dirt road.
This is the view from one of the bars at Kiambi. As you can see, it is peaceful and relaxing.
This is the campsite. We had a small campsite but knew many of the people camping. In the site next to ours, there were about 20 people we know from bowling and on the other side were a couple of families we know from Lusaka.
This is what I looked like for most of the weekend.
We frequently saw hippos and crocodiles while fishing and occasionally a few elephants.
The river was a great place to spend the day.

Now about the one that got away. We did not actually catch any fish, but I hooked a nice 8-10 pounder and failed to get it in the boat. It was exhilirating just fighting with it. He jumped out of the water twice, so I got a good look at him. Oh well, maybe next time. I am already looking forward to next time.

I hope everyone had a nice Easter. It's nice to see that the Braves have the best record in all of baseball! Go Braves!

Chaminuka

About 1 hour from my house, there is a private Nature Reserve named Chaminuka. It used to be a private residence that today serves as a getaway for many residents in Lusaka to spend the afternoon or even overnight. We spent the night there this past Saturday. It's a beautiful place with many different activities available to guests ranging from a horseback safari to a tour of the onsite cheese factory. We did the cheese factory tour on Saturday. Here are a couple pictures...