You belong somewhere you feel free.

You belong somewhere you feel free. turned 3 today!

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You belong somewhere you feel free. turned 3 today!

Everyone needs someone. Everyone has something they need to say....

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:33:07 -0400

Everyone needs someone. Everyone has something they need to say. Everyone needs someone to lean on. Everyone needs someone to set them free.

In times of darkness, sadness, and confusion….how is it creativity can bloom? Some of the greatest songs ever written have come out of the song writers darkest times, and yet we listen to it for enjoyment. Ironic. Or the best book you’ll ever read is written during someones heartbreak. Written during that time they found themselves again. Fascinating. We are so fortunate as human beings to have a mind that can distract us from the darkness when we need it the most. Music. Art. Conversation. Novels. Poetry. Some of the best happens when we’re hurt. To be able to have the inner ability to express what we are feeling in more than one way……what a beautiful thing and something we take for granted. What would I do if I couldn’t turn to my pen and paper, my screen and keyboard, to the sound of a beautifully orchestrated acoustic melody and floating voice that carries my thoughts to calmer places?

I might be a hippy. I might love very hard. I might look at the fog in the morning and tear up because it makes everything seem so magical and beautiful. I might appreciate every song I hear that connects to my soul perfectly at that moment in time….how does music do that? Its amazing. All I know is that sometimes we take a lot of effort to please others while totally forgetting to take care for ourselves. While others are always worried about themselves and never about others.

This week. Take a step back. Be observant. Watch the sunrise, sunset, and look for the stars. Breath in the fresh air. Have genuine conversations with your friends. Remember what it is you love about yourself and love. Anything. Something. Everything. Everyone needs a friend, you never know how much your simple gesture can affect someone. You could free their soul, or better yet…they could free yours.

Always remember that you are beautiful. Always remember you are loved.

Set your soul free even if just for a little while.

ar13nda: Let yourself be #free with Atikah and Puspa Widya –...

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:36:53 -0400

ar13nda:

Let yourself be #free with Atikah and Puspa Widya – View on Path.

"The highest form of human intelligence is pure observation without judgments."

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:35:50 -0400

“The highest form of human intelligence is pure observation without judgments.”

- Krishnamurti (via nicholanapora)

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thecoolestcucumber: Keep Your Heart Strong..

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:31:03 -0400

thecoolestcucumber:

Keep Your Heart Strong..

dontthinksmall-thinkbig: Words To Live By | via Tumblr on We...

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:27:18 -0400

dontthinksmall-thinkbig:

Words To Live By | via Tumblr on We Heart It. https://weheartit.com/entry/75357072/

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we..."

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:26:45 -0400

““If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.””

- Emerson M. Pugh (via divisionofahero)

"Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:16:03 -0500

“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

- Homer, The Illiad (via hydie88)

hope-inspiration-fuel: Therapy for the heart (If you try to...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:12:28 -0500

hope-inspiration-fuel:

Therapy for the heart (If you try to carry too much you can op @weheartit.com - http://whrt.it/XkH2jK

wryer: A new drawing,“Optimist/Pessimist.”

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:07:03 -0500

wryer:

A new drawing,
“Optimist/Pessimist.”

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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."

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“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

- Oscar Wilde (via kari-shma)

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Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:33:46 -0500

There is always room to learn MORE!

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:32:54 -0500

There is always room to learn MORE!

doctorswithoutborders: Photo: Blood is drawn for an HIV test at...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:31:22 -0500

doctorswithoutborders:

Photo: Blood is drawn for an HIV test at the MSF Dipping Tank community testing campaign at Nhletsheni, in Shiselweleni region. Swaziland 2012 © Giorgos Moutafis

Trying Out New Approaches to HIV Treatment

Thirty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic and more than a decade since the introduction of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in developing countries, the latest scientific evidence shows that the treatment keeps people healthy and prevents the virus from spreading. MSF is now treating more than 222,000 people for HIV/AIDS in 23 countries and introducing new approaches to treatment including earlier provision of ART to pregnant women living with HIV, expanded testing and treatment programs, and using improving technological monitoring techniques to track patient progress. Here, Micaela Serafini, MSF medical referent, discusses MSF’s efforts to treat HIV/AIDS in Swaziland.

Why is it important to provide antiretroviral treatment to people living with HIV while their immune system is still strong?

Today, we measure the level of an HIV-positive person’s white blood cells [CD4 cells] to determine when to start them on treatment, because this is an indicator of how strong their immune system is. Right now, the World Health Organization recommends starting people on ART when their CD4 cell count drops to 350 cells per mm³ of blood, but asks countries to consider earlier ART for pregnant women and HIV-positive partners in couples where one person is HIV-positive and the other is not, or “sero-discordant” couples. A healthy person’s CD4 count ranges from 800 to 1,200 cells per mm³—the lower the count, the more prone a person is to becoming ill from opportunistic infections like tuberculosis.

In Swaziland, MSF is studying the feasibility and acceptance of the “Test and Treat” (T&T) model, the most radical option of Treatment as Prevention (TasP). It involves providing all HIV-positive people with treatment, regardless of their CD4 count. This approach would allow us to have a maximum impact on reducing illness, as well as transmission of HIV in the community.

We are currently paving the way for TasP in Swaziland with the implementation of a greatly improved treatment protocol for pregnant women in order to better prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, or PMTCT, and help keep mothers healthy. The protocol is referred to as “Option B+.” In a nutshell, PMTCT Option B+ is T&T for pregnant women—we aim to start all HIV-positive pregnant women on life-long treatment, regardless of their CD4 count.

This new pilot project is just starting in the south of the country, in the Shiselweni region, which has a population of 208,000 people. We hope to start PMTCT B+ this month and from there put 3,000 pregnant women on ARV treatment every year. In 2013, we will expand this approach to other vulnerable groups and eventually to all HIV-positive adults in the region.

doctorswithoutborders: Photo: An MSF staff member measures a...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:28:58 -0500

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Photo: An MSF staff member measures a child’s mid-upper arm circumferance to check for malnutrition in Mogadishu. Somalia 2012 © Mike Woodman/MSF

Responding to Urgent Nutritional Needs on the Outskirts of Mogadishu

Years of intense violence, drought, malnutrition, and infectious disease have wrecked the Somali health system and displaced thousands of Somalis from their homes. While food security seems to have improved since 2011, MSF assessment shows that malnutrition rates are still alarming in many parts of the country, including the outskirts of Mogadishu.

According to this assessment, one in four children living in camps outside the Somali capital are malnourished. In response to this critical situation, an MSF team launched an emergency three-day intervention to provide urgent nutritional treatment and on-site medical care to children under the age of five.

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