21 July 2008

frustration

I started doing my research today. It's pretty frustrating. I was looking over some of the surveys. There are people checking off the box that they are sexually active then saying later in the survey that they have had no partners and are abstaining. Then I have people who say they've never heard of HIV/AIDS yet say they've been tested. I'm not really sure how to handle such situations when putting together the data.
Saturday was our mobile "clinic." That also frustrated me. It was set up on Thursday. There was no meeting or anything to organize how the day would go. So Saturday morning, I'm told to be at the office by 8am. We don't leave til 10. It's a bunch of volunteer med students. We go to a market in a camp about 45 min from here. They give a 3 hour lecture on HIV/AIDS, Hepetitis E, and hygience/saniation. It should've been no longer than an hour, and organized ahead of time. I felt so bad for all those people who were sitting there for 3 hours just because they happened to be in the market when we came.
I feel like nothing here is ever properly organized. It drives me nuts! (and I'm not exactly the most organized person to begine with)
I think the end of this week/part of next week, I'm going to go around with Niamh so I can do some consulting work for GRG (the org she works for - Grassroots Reconciliation Group) from home.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think that would frustrate me as well. Do you think it's getting through to people though?