Arenales por VIH testing

After seeing a few prenatal patients with Marina, a group of us, including Dr. Gutierrez, headed out to Arenales, a town about 1hr 20min away, via the highway and then a very rough dirt and gravel road.

It was very hot. The surroundings had lots of palm trees, some hills, and outcropping rocks. We set up in a school, and first there was a charla (chat) in Que'chi, then we took people's information and blood and ran rapid HIV tests (results ready in about 20 minutes). I was there to help with running the tests, and to do consults if there were sick folks- we only saw two sick babies, so it was pretty slow.

I think we saw about 35 women and 2 men for testing.

All in all, pretty fun to see another town in this area, and to get out of the clinic for awhile!