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  • Title: The Pediatric AIDS Corps: responding to the African HIV/AIDS health professional resource crisis.
    Author: Kline MW, Ferris MG, Jones DC, Calles NR, Mizwa MB, Schwarzwald HL, Wanless RS, Schutze GE.
    Journal: Pediatrics; 2009 Jan; 123(1):134-6. PubMed ID: 19117871.
    Abstract:
    Health professional capacity for delivery of HIV/AIDS care and treatment is severely constrained across sub-Saharan Africa. African health professional expertise in pediatrics is in particularly short supply. Here we describe a Pediatric AIDS Corps program that was designed to place pediatricians and other physicians in Africa on a long-term basis to expand existing health professional capacity for pediatric and family HIV/AIDS care and treatment. In the first 2 years of this program, 76 physicians were placed in 5 African countries that have been hit hard by HIV/AIDS. Enrollment of HIV-infected children in care more than quadrupled over a 24-month period, to 26 590. We believe that this pilot program can serve as a model for larger-scale efforts to immediately expand access for African children and families to life-saving HIV/AIDS care and treatment.
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