Pangaea Receives $500,000 From Gilead Foundation to Support Work in China with IDUs
San Francisco, August 10, 2006 — In August 2007 Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation received a $500,000 grant from Gilead Foundation to support Pangaea's work in China. The grant will support the extension of HIV/AIDS care and treatment to detention centers for injection drug users in China's Yunnan Province.
Pangaea has been working in China as part of the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI). As CHAI's treatment partner, Pangaea has worked closely with the Yunnan Provincial Bureau of Health to scale up comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment throughout the province. This effort has helped put a durable treatment capability in place through the development of a local team of HIV-trained providers working in hospital-based AIDS clinics. Relationships have been forged between clinics, laboratories, methadone treatment and needle exchange programs, town and village health systems, and new community-based peer support programs to reach and engage high risk populations in a continuum of care. The new program extending HIV/AIDS care to the drug detention centers, where a high percentage of the inmates are HIV positive, will make treatment available to thousands of people in need, as well as providing support to keep people in care when they return to their communities.
The mission of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation is to broaden access to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and care around the world, with special emphasis on work in resource-limited settings. As a non-profit consulting organization, Pangaea provides assistance to in-country and international partners in the development of healthcare infrastructure for HIV/AIDS treatment efforts. Our partners include national health ministries, NGOs, universities, foundations and corporations. For more information visit www.pgaf.org.
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