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Clinical Training and Mentoring Program Helps Jump Start HIV/AIDS Treatment in Rural China
Dr. Tom Warne never thought of himself as a teacher, but when he spoke to Pangaea's Dr. Eric Goosby in San Francisco in early 2005 and heard about the opportunity to be a part of the scale-up of HIV/AIDS treatment in China, he was immediately interested. A little less than a year later, as he is about to begin a new training session with six Chinese doctors in the small town of Lixin in Anhui Province in Eastern Central China, Dr. Warne feels like he has found his calling. "Bringing AIDS treatment to people in need, while helping to bring up the skills of the doctors here, has been tremendously rewarding. We're helping to build an HIV/AIDS treatment network from the ground up and it’s already making a difference in the lives of poor families throughout the region." More >
Transfer of Infectious Diseases Institute to Makerere University completed in June 2005
Pangaea was approached by Pfizer and the Academic Alliance for AIDS Prevention and Care in Africa ("AA") in May 2001 to act as the implementation partner for the Infectious Diseases Institute ("IDI") project and to manage and administer the Pfizer grants awarded to establish, develop and operate IDI. (See "New Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University to Enhance HIV/AIDS Treatment and Training in East Africa".) In its role as implementation partner, Pangaea has been responsible for managing construction of the IDI building on-time and within budget, establishing the administrative and fiscal systems necessary for IDI programmes to run in a high quality and sustainable manner, and managing the implementation of IDI programmes. More >
Pangaea Partners with Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in Ukraine
On November 27, 2005, the Clinton Foundation announced a new HIV/AIDS partnership with the government of Ukraine, as former President Clinton and Ukrainian Minister of Health Dr. Yuri Poliachenko signed an agreement enabling the Clinton Foundation to assist the government of Ukraine in scaling up their national HIV/AIDS treatment program. Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, led by Eric Goosby, M.D., will serve as treatment partner for this initiative. Pangaea has been playing a similar role in China since May 2004 as part of the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in that country. More >
