PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Maj. Charles Pastor, a native of New York City and 372nd Engineer Brigade surgeon, points to a slide during a presentation to Afghan medical workers on the human immunodeficiency virus at Sharana Hospital here Sept. 2. The goal of the class was to increase Afghan medical providers' capacity to properly treat patients suffering from the disease, with the hopes of lowering patient morbidity and mortality over time. The lecture was part of an ongoing series of medical discussions with Paktika medical providers to increase medical capacity in the province. Pastor is in the U.S. Army Reserves and is deployed from Mobile 7th Civil Support Command in Kaiserslautern, Germany. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Demetrius Lester, Paktika Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)

PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Maj. Charles Pastor, a native of New York City and 372nd Engineer Brigade surgeon, teaches Afghan medical workers about the human immunodeficiency virus at Sharana Hospital here Sept. 2. The goal of the class was to increase provincial medical providers' capacity to properly treat patients suffering from the disease, with the hopes of lowering patient morbidity and mortality over time. The lecture was part of an ongoing series of medical discussions with Paktika medical providers to increase medical capacity in the province. Although Afghans are considered low risk, early education is key to prevention because of the high-risk rate of neighboring countries and could possibly keep Afghanistan from joining other countries' pandemic rate. Pastor is in the U.S. Army Reserves and is deployed from Mobile 7th Civil Support Command in Kaiserslautern, Germany. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Demetrius Lester, Paktika Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)

 

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