The Pediatric AIDS Corps: Responding to the African HIV/AIDS Health Professional Resource Crisis
| Autor: | Mark W. Kline, Margaret G. Ferris, David C. Jones, Gordon E. Schutze, Michael B. Mizwa, Nancy R. Calles, R. Sebastian Wanless, Heidi Schwarzwald |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Adult
Male Program evaluation Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty Pediatric AIDS Health Personnel Population HIV Infections Pilot Projects Pediatrics Health Services Accessibility Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Physicians Health care medicine Humans Health Workforce education Africa South of the Sahara Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome education.field_of_study business.industry Public health Capacity building International health medicine.disease Family medicine Africa Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Health Resources Female business |
| Zdroj: | Pediatrics. 123:134-136 |
| ISSN: | 1098-4275 0031-4005 |
| Popis: | 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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