AIDS hospital

Today I went to visit an AIDS hospital. It was so good to see everything the hospital was doing for the community, which is a township, but so sad to see how many people were dying of AIDS. About 70% of the people that come to that hospital have AIDS; but it's also a hospital for childbirth, burns, other sicknesses etc.
We saw some premature babies which were TINY!! She also took us past wards full of people that were dying of AIDS and there's nothing more that could be done for them.

I have heard some awful stories of people who will do anything to get government grants so they have money to buy food. They starve their own babies, or have babies and then abandon them. There are so many abandoned children here the situation is pretty desparate. They have a children's ward at the hospital and some of these kids are abandoned and will stay at the hospital until they're ready for adoption.

I would have loved to stay in the children's ward longer and play with the kids because some of them looked so sad. One little boy about 3 or 4 was sitting up in bed with a drip attached to him and he was just staring at everything around him the whole time. There were other kids that were well enough to be running around; they were so cheeky!