Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Este verano.

Tomorrow, I'm jetting off to the Dominican Republic for 7 weeks. I'm working with the non-profit Infante Sano ("healthy baby" in Spanish) on a project to improve access to HIV testing for pregnant women. Our ultimate goal is to prevent vertical (mother-to-child) transmission of the virus.

In addition, I'm going to be learning Spanish furiously. This will be my first immersion experience in which my coworkers will not speak English. My project involves interviews of Spanish-speaking doctors and nurses. Hopefully, by the end of the summer, my fluency will be much better.

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