ABSTRACT
This chapter explores other health facilities and stayed at an NGO hospital in a remote rural area of Malawi. The staff there would often remark that their hospital was small and only served a tiny portion of the population. Supported by private donors, it was the absolute opposite of public hospitals in Malawi. The role of volunteers in AIDS care delivery in Malawi is complicated. Although health providers in antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinics are formal employees of the Ministry of Health, many of closely linked networks involved in patient support and welfare rely heavily on work of volunteers. In general, volunteers carry out services offered by community support organizations working with patients, as well as those provided by many of the NGOs providing home-based care and orphan care in villages. Most people, they said, were treated at the local district hospital; these patients were the unfortunate ones. Much to the ART clinic's satisfaction, Margaret returned few weeks after her nurse-in-training assignment ended.
