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Page 2 of 4 III. The children’s current food and drug diet Currently, we feed the children a regular diet of meat, vegetables, various ground and other starches, supplemented by a series of vitamins. We try to keep them away from milky products, as they tend to induce diarrhea. For pain and opportunistic infections (pneumonia, lung infection, thrush, meningitis, etc) which tend to arise at a constant, we administer power or liquid forms of the following drugs: Augmentin, Amoxil, Flagcyl, Klaricid, Nizoral (Cream and Shampoo), Daktarin (miconazol) Gel, Bactrim, emulsifying ointments (usually prescribed by our doctor to alleviate itching and other discomfort brought on by lesions) and a variety of OTC cough/cold medicines IV. The children’s current medical care Doctors at the Bustamante Hospital for Children and the University Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, follow the children. The Comprehensive and St Jago Park Health Clinics helps us with blood work and ‘check up’ of the children. Currently fifteen of our twenty-three children are on Anti-retroviral drug. We have see the dramatic improvement in the health conditions of those children on AIDS medication and it is our hope to be able to place all twenty-three children on these drugs so that they too can be given a fair chance at a longer life. The government does not subsidize antiretroviral drugs and so Dare to Care has to bear he full cost of these very expensive drugs. The estimated cost of the cocktail therapy per child per month is J$10,000. Based on this figure it would cost us approximately $J2.76 million per year for the supply of anti-retroviral drugs for all twenty three children |
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