Published online December 29, 2008
PEDIATRICS Vol. 123 No. 1 January 2009, pp. 134-136 (doi:10.1542/peds.2008-0402)
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The Pediatric AIDS Corps: Responding to the African HIV/AIDS Health Professional Resource Crisis

Mark W. Kline, MD, Margaret G. Ferris, PhD, MPH, David C. Jones, BA, Nancy R. Calles, MSN, RN, PNP, MPH, Michael B. Mizwa, Heidi L. Schwarzwald, MD, MPH, R. Sebastian Wanless, MD and Gordon E. Schutze, MD

Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas

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.

Key Words: HIV infection • infant • child • international health

Accepted Apr 8, 2008.


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