Welcome to Global View, the newsletter of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation. This newsletter is intended to inform you about Pangaea and the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Please send us your feedback and suggestions for future issues.
Lessons Learned: Creating a State-of-the-Art HIV/AIDS Clinic and Training Center in Uganda
The Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation is playing a key role in the construction and development of the new Infectious Diseases Institute (“IDI”) at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. This facility, which is scheduled to be fully operational in October of 2004, will serve as both an HIV/AIDS clinic serving thousands of patients every month and a regional HIV clinical training center for physicians and nurses. Its founders, the physicians of the Academic Alliance for AIDS Care and Prevention in Africa (“Academic Alliance”), believe that the IDI will serve as a model for the treatment and prevention of AIDS in a resource-limited environment. More >
Building Medical Infrastructure to Treat HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Laying the Groundwork for the Delivery of ARVs
Renè Durazzo, Pangaea’s Director of Global Programs, has a short answer when asked what it is that Pangaea does in the fight against HIV/AIDS: “We help set up medical systems that will get people drugs.” This simple statement points to a complex set of issues that must be addressed before life-saving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) can be provided to an individual who needs them in sub-Saharan Africa or elsewhere in the developing world. More >
Morrison & Foerster Provides Comprehensive Legal Support to Pangaea
The international law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP has provided pro bono legal services to Pangaea since the foundation came into being in December 2001. Led by former Morrison partner Kathy Fisher, who serves as Pangaea’s general counsel, Morrison & Foerster lawyers have contributed hundreds of hours of time to a wide variety of projects crucial to Pangaea, including the establishment of Pangaea as a 501(c)3 corporation, extensive project finance advice relating to the construction and development of the Infectious Disease Institute in Kampala Uganda, regular review of contracts and other agreements, and ongoing advice regarding the impact of intellectual property laws and regulations on HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention efforts. The firm has also underwritten Pangaea’s media and communications efforts for 2004. More >
Program Notes
Pangaea’s Dr. Eric Goosby is a member of the World Health Organization’s Partner Advisory Group that met in Geneva, Switzerland in November of 2003 to discuss and provide input on WHO’s “3 x 5” strategic framework to address the global ARV treatment gap. “The WHO strategy aims to set out in clear detail how life-long antiretroviral treatment can be provided to 3 million people living with HIV/AIDS in poor countries by the end of 2005. Core principles include urgency, equity and sustainability.” More >
